Virginia Democrats Want To Deny Military Voters

Democrats always say they "support the troops".  I think it's mostly lip service, but I usually try and give people the benefit of the doubt.  If they say it, then I'll believe them.  That is until they do something to make me think otherwise and the VA Democratic Party is making me think in that otherwise direction.

This from THE NEXT RIGHT:

Last year, we covered some of the problems in the counting of military absentee ballots in Virginia, as did others. This problem has not gone away. It has just moved. The day before election day 2008, the McCain campaign filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia to force Virginia to count military absentee ballots that came in after election day. McCain lost Virginia by more than enough votes, but the case went on with the Department of Justice replacing the McCain campaign.There were filings last month and will likely be a hearing this month. So what?

The Virginia State Board of Elections argued in their most recent filing that they have no legal obligation to send out military absentee ballots in a timely manner. Restated, the State of Virginia has argued in a federal court filing that they can legally send out absentee ballots to active duty soldiers the day before an election. Restated again, the Democratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war.

Say what?  Yeah and here's the filing if you don't believe it:

In other words, they don't see the need to mail out ballots to our soldiers at war until the day before an election.  Since said ballots must be rturned by the next day, it effectively disenfranchises anyone serving in the military outside the state of Virginia.

It's obvious that the Democratic leadership in Virginia only pays lip service to supporting the troops. 

It's a fact that between 60 and 75% of the military tend to vote Republican.  That couldn't be the reason, could it?  They wouldn't stoop that low, would they? 

Yeah, they are and it's despicable!

VW

Comments

[BobF]

You would think in today's technological world, absentee ballots for military, and military only, could be done electronically.

State of residency and info could be encoded on their military ID which could be inserted into the voting machine to get the proper electronic ballot for the member's state and voting district.