By John W. Lillpop
Democrats are infamous for fretting over every single, last vote in order to assure that not one voter is disenfranchised.
Except, that is, when it comes to ballots cast by voters who probably voted Republican.
Which is why in 2000 Al Gore made a feeble effort to recount only heavily Democratic precincts in Florida; an act of attempted larceny that would have gifted him with enough votes to overcome W.’s lead throughout the rest of that great state.
That gambit failed miserably as the U.S. Supreme Court saw through Gore’s chicanery and refused to allow Democrats to steal the election.
As was the case in 2000, the Democrat Party and its hoodlum lawyers worked overtime on November 2 to suppress Republican votes, this time focusing on disenfranchisement of the very men and women who make it possible for Americans to vote in the first place.
That would be men and women in the United States military, most of whom vote via absentee ballot.
As reported at Reference 1, in part:
Eric Eversole, executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project, told CNSNews.com., "I'm incredibly concerned that ballots were mailed out 25 days before an election, meaning there is a significant chance they won't make it to service members prior to an election," "Will some troops be disenfranchised? Possibly. How widespread, I don't know."As indicated in Reference 2, problems with the military vote were particularly acute in Illinois.
As part of congressional hearings for the MOVE Act, studies showed it can take more than 30 days for a ballot to get to a combat area, Eversole said.
His organization called the apparent delays in mailing overseas ballots to the attention of Attorney General Eric Holder in September.
Last week, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez said the Justice Department has helped 65,000 voters through enforcement action.
But the Justice Department has not been doing what it needs to do to ensure that all military votes are counted, said Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee.
"If the Voting Rights Section has 20 staff members engaged in a nationwide compliance program, I would expect they would detect noncompliance promptly without relying on private organizations," Lungren wrote in an Oct. 28 letter to Perez.
"The claim to have 'helped' 65,000 voters whose ballots were, in fact, sent late seems to illustrate failure rather than success, and the department seems to be more focused on protecting its image than on building an effective mechanism to produce compliance."
Illinois?
Is it sheer coincidence that Barack Obama’s home state was remise in making the vote accessible for those in the military who, for the most part, would vote against Obama’s Marxist cohorts?
Although the Republican tsunami has taken some of the urgency out of getting to the bottom of the mismanagement of the military vote, the GOP must not shrink from the challenge to investigate and punish those responsible.
No American is more deserving of the right to vote that American military folks and the GOP must move boldly to assure that those patriotic Americans are not denied this most precious right!
Ref 1: http://carrollstandard.com/politics/election-2010/9675-despite-new-law-problems-persist-with-military-vote.html
Ref 2: http://rightwingnews.com/2010/10/democrats-stealing-elections-illinois-dems-deny-military-the-vote-in-2010-election/
