Now THIS Will Piss You Off

Via Marc Ambinder. This needs to be addressed. They damned well better address it. I don't care if it calls for a special session. Let's get on the stick. It isn't about any election result. This is a matter of principle.

The patchwork problem of federal and state election regulations strikes again. Military ballots are being tossed in Fairfax Co, VA because of a "technicality." Not a lot of them compared to the size of the electorate, but more than a few.

The registrar of voters in a Democrat. He thinks it "stinks," but the law is the law.

Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law -- then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling -- requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness.

The McCain campaign said there's not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in recent years and the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn't changed.

Democrats insist they're biased towards access... so will they try to intervene on behalf of these voters?

Outrageous.

 

Comments

[jharp]

Both sides do quite a bit of bitching about vote integrity.

And no matter what team you are on it is outrageous that it is even an issue. We clearly have the technology and capability to do it right yet this same shit comes up every 4 years.

And to both parties. It is an embarrassment to America and a disgrace.

[Norma Stitz]

Democrat Suleman sure is concerned about absentee ballots - Earlier this month he was registering incarcerated inmates at Fairfax County Jails (those convicted of misdemeanors and "awaiting felons"). http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/people/Fairfax_County_elections_staff_visited_jail_to_register_inmates.html
democrats love being associated with the lowest scum on the planet.

[Old Trooper]

I voted by absentee ballot for a great many years while stationed overseas. Isn't it amazing that those who called for every vote to be counted register felons, dead people, cartoon characters and fictional characters to vote with Federal Funds would now refuse an absentee ballot?

This election is tainted and compromised before it happened. The results will most likely be determined by the courts and not the voters. The integrity of the process this year is more doubtful
than in any other. I am retired now and in CONUS. If ACORN is not investigated for RICO violations by Dick Tracy Waxman now, no one should be sworn into office at any level. Do not post any partisan crap here in response. This one is clearly rigged!

I always found career politicians to be despicable characters. No I find that the vote no longer matters. This one will be settled by Lawyers and Judges in about 6 months.

[BobinStamford]

Rules are rules, OLD 'Trooper'. Remember Florida in 2000? 8 years of that stammering, cowardly drunk.

Payback's a bitch.

Oh, and thank you for your Service!

[seekeronos]

"--- I always found career politicians to be despicable characters. No I find that the vote no longer matters. This one will be settled by Lawyers and Judges in about 6 months. ---"

"--- Rules are rules, OLD 'Trooper'. Remember Florida in 2000? 8 years of ... [Bush]. ---"

Which is PRECISELY why Obama's reign will be a SELECTION, and not a matter of an "election".

Obama will be SELECTED in order to maintain some semblance of control over the restive Negro population, who are very likely to riot and possibly even fall into open insurrection if "they do not get their way...".

Our Negroes have been sold such a bill of goods for their messiah, that given that any result other than Obama will result in the dashing of so much HOPE and CHANGE in the hearts of several millions of people who prefer to think of themselves as Africans first and Americans second.

Yet the irony is that the mulatto wunderkind is very content to let his half-brother rot in an insect-infested mud hut, and to balefully watch his mother die a painful, lengthy death, whilst living it up in the House of Graft, courtesy of Tony Rezko, while his co-ethnics busy themselves with the acquisition of "bling" and ever raising the body count of their own kind, at each others' hands.

This is why I am afraid, nay, CONVINCED, that our Republic has come to an end. The American EMPIRE shall endure, but for only a short time, as all empires born of iron and blood tend to have a very short shelf life.

There yet remains an avenue by which a reversal may be achieved, and I am sore vexed and afraid, that it calls for the nourishment once again of that old Liberty Tree with the blood of tyrants and patriots anew.

[maine yankee]

Hey bob in stamford,
What branch of the service were you in ? Or are you here in the US on the 'free ride' plan ? Probably '4-F' (ask a vet what that is)

[Fred Beloit]

The Boob in Stamford IS in the service, the service of the Democraticic party, though I suppose they would rather not have the bitter, spiteful, young, punk.

[Lala]

Virginia Miliary Absentee Ballot Problem Will Be Solved

23 Oct 2008 11:12 pm
The military voting project at the National Defense Committee responds to reports out of Fairfax, Virginia, and after polite telephone conversations and an exchange of letters, the problem looks like it will be solved and votes will be counted.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/virginia_miliary_absentee_ball.php

[Fred Beloit]

Say, Harpo, seems to me I recall a conversation with you about efforts to stop military votes from counting. Remember?

[Fred Beloit]

The link concludes with "Hopefully this will allow for the ballots to be fully counted."

Hopefully????? Hope. Now where have I heard that word before? We can hope, Lala. Isn't that great?

[Lala]

And change, Fred. The stock market is going to crash this morning, so that's what will be left.

[Old Trooper]

Bob, if payback is required, you owe ME 28 years of Service, though not under fire in third world hellholes like some of mine were. I was deployed by both Democrats and Republicans so don't get snarky or partisan with me.

You can start by raking up the leaves on my 1,200 acre Lawn, pumping out my septic tank and splitting 10 cord of firewood. Take the weekend off. The next 28 years will be busy ones for you.

[Lisa]

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!! I don't care WHO these Military Servicemen and women voted for, Their VOTES should COUNT!!! What is being done to STOP this OUTRAGEOUS ACT and THREAT to our Country??
Lisa

[Old Trooper]

Ask Bob. He is either smootching BHO's Rump and registering dead folks and felons to vote or packing his bags for the 28 years that HE owes me. Post stupid here and either put up or shut up.

I was outraged and got over it.

[Lala]

There's more hanky-panky going on

http://blog.thehill.com/2008/10/24/speaker-pelosi-failed-to-protect-our-overseas-militarys-right-to-vote-rep-trent-franks/

excerpt

Furthermore, the Justice Department has now filed a lawsuit against the State of Vermont and Vermont Secretary of State Deborah L. Markowitz, for failure to comply with the Uniformed Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), legislation intended to ensure that uniformed military members and overseas citizens may effectively participate in federal elections.

[Patricia O'Malley]

Where was the outrage four years ago? Now that the republicans think they might lose, now they're worried about the military votes. I read about voter caging and throwing out the military's absentee votes during the 2004 presidential election.