Friday, October 15, 2010
The Disenfranchisement of the Military Voter
So let me get this straight; New York and the Chicago area can't get absentee balloting right for military voters? It seems to me that if the White House were going to sue someone...say a state or city that this would be a good time. It is not just inconvenient...it is a national disgrace to see this happening. If the Department of Justice cannot get this right...perhaps they should cease to exist for they serve no great purpose if they cannot protect the vote of the military voters. But perhaps the White House and Democrats do not like how military people have tended to vote, so it is inconvenient at best for them. In any event it seems to me, having served 29 1/2 years in the Army that the military has been what has allowed valid voting to take place from the beginning, so this must be made right. The last couple of presidential elections there was much talk about the disenfranchisement of ethnic and minority vote. People are enraged if the poor cannot vote. Systems are put into place to make sure that people are not disenfranchised. ACORN and similar community organizers exist to get out the vote. But, who is really watching out for our great military people and their right to vote and have it count? Sure it is hard to make sure that they get a chance because they are frequently put into situations like overseas deployments that put their lives at risk protecting our freedoms. I know we have the technology to make this happen. We just don't seem to have the will nor the backbone. But somebody should stand up and make some noise about this and protest vigorously. Those who cannot make this happen should be replaced and lose their jobs whether they are politicians or beaurocrats. If the Department of Justice needs shaken up because they can't seem to get their act together over the Black Panther voter scandal and disenfranchisement of white voters then perhaps the person to take the fall should be at the top of that, Mr. Holder. Eliminate anyone who cannot figure this out and make it right...simple. Or it should be. We trust our military NCOs and Officers to lead our soldiers in combat...trust them as vote monitors and send back the tallys with accompanying information through electronic means to whatever state, city or municipality. It could be validated and used as provisional ballots at the vary least until the accompanying hard ballot arrived. Make it happen, we can and should do this. It is rediculous that thousands of military ballots are not counted each election cycle and we talk about it but do nothing about it. I am SICK AND TIRED of it. I guarantee you that if Mr. Obama thought that most of these votes were going to democrats that there would be hell to pay and they would find a way for the Justice Department to get really involved instead of the lame efforts that they have made so far. Go ahead, Mr. President, make my day....make the military ballots all count throughtout this great land. Stop the Disenfranchisement of American Military voters now.
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