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An exclusive from the Washington Times. “The DoJ has so far provided only incomplete information,” wrote Sen. Cornyn, re: the Justice Department’s failure to show adequate interest in protecting the ability of overseas military personnel to vote. He writes that DoJ has been “hiding behind vague departmental policies.” And: “The disenfranchisement of military voters must come to an end. If it is allowed to continue, it will represent a shameful failure to honor the heroic service of those who defend America.” Do read the whole letter over at the Wash Times. It is strong stuff.
Meanwhile, purely coincidentally, the great Deroy Murdock’s newest column, just out an hour ago, is also on the same topic, except BEFORE Cornyn sent his letter. Read Deroy’s column here. Little did he know, probably, that his column would prove so timely. Those are the instincts of a great columnist!
Murdock gets to the heart of the matter, and of the dastardly and inexcusably political calculations at work at DoJ, in this paragraph:
Why is the normally hyperactive Obama Administration somewhere between drowsy and counterproductive on this matter? Could this concern the fact that military voters lean more Republican than Democrat? An Gallup Poll in April found that Americans consider themselves 26 percent Republican, 29 percent Democrat, and 42 percent independent. Meanwhile, a survey of 1,800 active-duty troops in the April 11 Military Times discovered that these GIs were 41 percent Republican, 27 percent Democrat, and 32 percent independent. Since military voters likelier support Republican candidates and causes, perhaps President Obama’s Justice Department just isn’t that into defending the voting rights of overseas combatants.
This should be a full-blown scandal, folks.
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CalMark| 9.16.10 @ 6:09PM
Well said! It's more than a scandal--it's an outrage.
Voter fraud against the military has a long history on the Democrat side. I voted absentee from Bexar County, TX (a San Antonio-area Democrat stronghold) as an active duty resident of Texas in 3 major elections.
In 1996, Bexar County sent me a spoiled ballot (creased, dirtied, covered with pencil and pen marks, etc.) for the general election. Living in Virginia and in an intensive training program, I had no time to play with it and had to vote the spoiled ballot.
In 1998, I could not vote. Deployed to the Persian Gulf, there seemed to be active obstruction to military people getting an absentee ballot.
In 2000, Bexar County sent an absentee ballot for the wrong Congressional district. During the next three weeks, election officials repeatedly hung up on me when I called them from Omaha to correct it.
Piece de resistance: 2002, my last Bexar County absentee vote, the County Clerk, LAUGHING, informed me that ALL military GOP registrations had been CANCELED on January 22, 2001. I had to threaten a lawsuit before she consented to send me a ballot. Just as in 1996, it was spoiled.
Nothing new under the (Democrat Voter Fraud) sun.
CalMark| 9.16.10 @ 6:24PM
P.S. Some might wonder, "Why didn't you register elsewhere?" Fair enough. It didn't even occur to me that this was systematic fraud until the County Clerk laughed at me in 2002. Then I stepped back and saw the pattern.
P.P.S. Later in 2002 I was out of the military and registered in Chicago, where I saw even more amazing fraud in 2004--but that's another story.
Patriot| 9.16.10 @ 7:02PM
How else can the despicable traitors win?
Thank you for your service, sir.
Brooks Coleman| 9.22.10 @ 12:29AM
first, Thank You for your service! I've run into similar problems in Bexar County. My husband and son are both active duty and were both deployed to Iraq during the last election. I had a very difficult time trying to help them get their ballots. In 2004 my husband never received his ballot while stationed in Iraq. He finally received it once he returned to the US--almost 1 year later! It is pathetic how the military is treated when it comes to voting, but not surprising since they total only 1% of our US population.
Oldefarte| 9.17.10 @ 11:06AM
From one who has friends/acquaintances in the military, I wish to THANK QUIN, DEROY [WHO ALL HERE SHOULD CONSTANTLY READ HIS COLUMNS ALSO AS HE'S AN EXCELLENT EDITORIALIST] AND SENATOR CORNYN for their reporting and congressional attention to this extremely urgent [and thoroughly repugnant] issue of DISENFRANCHISING military votes. I do not understand as to WHY this [along with other occurrances] would not warrant IMPEACHMENT CHARGES being brought by congress in 2011?????????????