Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Why Is It So Hard for Soldiers Overseas to Vote?    [Michael Graham]

Mark Hemingway's article here at NRO on the subject is great, and we have personal knowledge on the subject here in Massachusetts.

After the 2000 election, new federal laws were passed ordering state election officials like Secretaries of State to track ballots requested by active duty military abroad, as well as how many returned and how many were eventually counted. But the Massachusetts Secretary of State, Democrat Bill Galvin, competely ignored this federal law and refused to track these ballots — an odd oversight from a liberal official notorious for making sure foreign language ballots are at every polling place.

Just two weeks ago, the feds forced Massachusetts to enter a consent decree to start enforcing these laws designed to make sure military ballots get counted. We're also going to have federal oversight until 2013 because of our state's disregard for ballots cast by members of the US military who live in Massachusetts.

The same liberals who support giving ballots to those living on park benches won't obey federal law to get ballots to American soldiers and Marines in Iraq.

11/04 11:21 AMShare