No surprise, the State is governed by Democrats:
If election officials started disenfranchising minority voters at a rate of 80%, headlines would scream on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post, as would civil rights leaders. And rightly so.
However, when those being disenfranchised are military voters, the media and the traditional civil rights establishment give a collective shrug. I posted a story on April 2 about the shameful behavior of the New York Election Board and the inadequate actions of the Department of Justice in protecting military voters in New York’s 20th district congressional race.
Yesterday was the deadline for the receipt of completed absentee ballots from military voters—ballots that had been mailed out too late by local election officials. The Election Board has posted a chart showing that 998 absentee ballots were sent to military voters, yet only 205 were returned in time to be counted.
There is no doubt many more would have been returned if New York had been forced to take other steps to remedy their late mailing of absentee ballots. For example, the state could have been required to pay for international express service for the return of voted ballots. That didn’t happen. The resulting low voting rate among service members can be partly attributed to the failure of state and federal officials to carry out their responsibilities to comply with and enforce the federal statute that guarantees the rights of all military personnel to vote.
Remember the rule, guys: “Count every vote” means “count every vote which helps a Democrat, even if you have to count it a dozen times”. If you’re even possibly going to vote GOP, then counting your vote falls in importance to somewhere below investigating Obama’s ties to Ayers. We can expect more and more of this as time goes on – Democrats are determined to win and they don’t care how they do it. The ultimate reason for this is that Democrats believe that if everyone was being sensible and not bitterly clinging to God and guns (you know how those service members are…they have guns and, my goodness, a lot of them pray), they’d vote Democrat…so, its ok to disenfranchise them because its in their best interest.
Its going to be a long, nasty fight to get these Democrats out of power.
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