Quote:New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the state's Board of Elections on Monday for failing to mail out absentee ballots to military and overseas voters from New York City and four additional counties.

"I don’t know whether or not the Board of Elections has failed to send out absentee ballots to the military or anybody else, but if they have failed it really is reprehensible," Bloomberg told Fox News. "We send our young men and women overseas to fight and to die for us and we don’t care enough to make sure they get the right to exercise their franchise? That’s what they’re over there fighting for as much as anything else."

This is a disgrace. No excuse for it.

Quote:According to the 2009 MOVE Act, a state must send out its military and overseas ballots 45 days prior to elections.

According to the article, as of today at noon, the ballots had still not been sent out.

Quote:Cornyn gave this statement to FoxNews.com:

"The fact that New York government officials failed to live up to the clear terms of the waiver is shocking, in light of how much our troops have sacrificed in the years since 9/11. This is a clear violation of federal voting rights law. If DOJ does not file a suit to right this wrong as soon as the courts open on Tuesday, then we will know once and for all that DOJ is not serious about safeguarding military voting rights."

I'm betting that if this has happened in blue state NY, the same is probably happening in other states. We shall see how much the DOJ really wants to enforce voting laws/rights. If there isn't a lawsuit here just waiting..........

Mayor Bloomberg Slams Board of Elections For Failure to Mail Military Ballots

You expect Eric Holder's voting rights department to enforce the MOVE act for mostly republican military?

This makes me prone to the extreme. But, My military brothers in arms would not want that. It is just that the military's disenfranchisement really pains me.

(10-11-2010 04:22 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  You expect Eric Holder's voting rights department to enforce the MOVE act for mostly republican military?

I wonder if any lawyer off the street can ask a judge to demand the ballots be sent ASAP...

This is the kind of thing that causes countries to lose control of their forces.