More Disgrace: The Obama-Holder Justice Department Is Failing Our Military Voters
The crack Department of Justice unit set up to protect military voters is beginning to resemble the Keystone Kops operation of 2008. It turns out that after they concluded that all the military ballots in Illinois went out on time, they were wrong.
In fact, ballots in one of the largest counties in the state, St. Clair County, did not go out early enough to comply with federal law. In fact, it is unclear whether or not they have gone out at all.
Yet inside the DOJ, the crack unit made inquiries in Illinois and went away satisfied that all was well, nothing to worry about.
Add to this that the DOJ finally got around to filing a lawsuit against Guam for failing to send out military ballots — something that still hasn’t been accomplished despite the September 18 deadline. DOJ waited seventeen excruciating days before filing an enforcement action, even though it was apparent that they were breaking federal law on September 19, at the latest.
These most recent failures demonstrate why James Cole, the nominee to be deputy attorney general, is not going to be confirmed any time soon. Senator John Cornyn of Texas has placed a hold on Cole because of the failures of the DOJ Voting Section to aggressively enforce military voting. The Illinois and Guam problems won’t help
Instead of aggressive enforcement to protect military voting rights, the DOJ has been cutting deals with states like Wisconsin which ignore the congressional mandate that ballots be mailed at least 45 days before the election. Because DOJ did nothing all year to enforce the 45-day mandate, they cut deals that ignored the numeric minimums in law.
Build the wave higher … It’s the best way to save America from the Obama-Democrats.
There are many ways the Obama cabal plans to sabotage the will of the electorate.While Obama talks about ‘hand to hand combat’ with political opponents-the thug-in-chief continually spews violence as a remedy to secure his socialist agenda-another sure fire way for them to misdirect/disenfranchise the votes of the military, most of whom are NOT deranged liberals is to ‘lose’ the ballots.
The left is VERY scared, VERY enraged, and therefore, VERY dangerous-more so than usual.Tea Partiers, forewarned IS forearmed.Better be prepared than sorry getting caught with your pants down!!
And military types are thought to vote with what tendency?
Go about your business, teabagger~~~~
These aren’t the ACORNS you’re looking for~~~~
What?
I’d guess Diggs didn’t know that military folk TEND to vote conservative and that he sure didn’t see Star Wars. Damn, I feel old.
I think psychodad’s remark was tongue-in-cheek.
“DOJ’s complete failure to ensure that military voters get their 2010 ballots on time.”
There is a difference between failing to ensure the military votes are delivered and counted and disenfranchising the military voters. I suspect the racist and soldier-phobic DOJ libruls of disenfranchisement, don’t you, psycho? (By the way, if you would take that scrotum out of your mouth, you might be better ubderstood.)
Take it easy, Fred. I believe he’s on our side and just trying to be sarcastic. The last two lines are a take-off on a couple lines from “Star Wars”, with the leftists and the media trying to use the Jedi mind trick, basically saying, “Move along, nothing to see here folks”.
And his first line is telling. The military is believed to vote Republican, which is why the Democrats are trying to stop them from getting their ballots on time, or worse, not at all. There may be a lot of close elections next month in which a couple thousand missing and/or late military ballots here and there could easily make a difference.
i do not understand your statement. please explain.
My ballot arrived in Japan after the 1976 election. The system will be fixed any time now…
I’d like to propose a simple solution: Any service member who does not receive his ballot on time will have his Federal, State and local income and property taxes waived for the year.
It’s odd how money stops these political games dead.
That’s the best idea yet. If such a rule was implemented, no one serving overseas would ever have the obligation of paying taxes waived and ballots would ever more arrive in a timely fashion.
BRILLIANT !!!
Combat military personnel are not “normal”. When they are presented with the question “am I willing to risk my life, lose my life, for some people I’ve never met, many of whom are convinced that my mission is a ridiculous mistake” respond with the “wrong” answer of “yes”.
Think about the high fives that Al Gore’s attorneys gave each other when they successfully disqualified military personnel ballots in the 2000 election.
But is this something new?
Not really.
November 1864. The Republican presidential candidate wants to continue a horrific civil war, which ultimately claims the lives of 650,000 Americans in a population one tenth the population today. That’s right. 6,500,000 KIA today. There is a vigorous anti-war movement that finds its home in, that’s right, the Democrat Party. They choose as their candidate an immensely respected military figure, responsible by all accounts for the creation and training of the army that was now prevailing in the field, whose objective was to end the war and accept the splintering of the former United States of America into two halves.
Common sense said that the current administration, which had and is going to get a lot of guys in blue [and gray] killed, would be at risk to “allow” those guys in blue to vote in that election of November 1864.
But common sense was wrong. Mobile polling booths were setup, in the field, and those guys in blue marched from the firing line to the polling booth and back to the firing line overwhelmingly voting for the current administration.
The present administration is not stupid. They know their history. They know that Lincoln whacked McClellan WITH the benefit of the military vote in time of war. They know it is to their advantage to “disenfranchise” the present military lest they cast votes against them.
And that’s what it means to be a Democrat.
It’s a good thing the friends I have in the military have already gotten reassignments inside the States.
Let’s see….the military votes at about a 75% rate for republicans. Surely THAT couldn’t have anything to do with Holder’s “ineptitude”, could it??!! NAAAAH!
The last election was over 80%
The words “Obama” and “Justice” do not belong in the same phrase.
Something to keep in mind about Alaska—
Because the Alaskan Republican Primary was so close the Murkowski campaign flew up an Election Special Investigator to assist them in trying to identify Absentee Ballots. The scheme seemed to be to identify ballots that went for Joe Miller via calls to the homes of Absentee Voters, questioning them on who they voted for, and then targeting their specific Ballots for examination in order that they could be challenged and potentially tossed out. That was a minor stink up here what with many folks calling in to talk shows saying they were Absentee Voter’s and some organization was calling them up and asking who they voted for, and trackback lead toward the Murkowski Campaign. Pretty rapidly however the math made Lisa’s Victory impossible, Miller was declared the winner, the topic was dropped, and the Private Investigator, specifically called in by Lisa’s then campaign manager, rapidly left the State. (He was accused of bringing in unauthorized materials to the Ballot Count facility and texting info pertaining to individual ballots to the Murkowski campaign from inside the facility, which is forbidden.)
That being said, it will be important to keep our eyes focused on the Absentee Ballots during the general Election on November 2nd. Alaska, having 2 large Air Force Bases and 2 large Army bases, has a large Military contingent overseas who will be Absentee Voting. I doubt many of them will be writing in Murkowski as opposed to circling in the decorated combat Army veteran Joe Miller. What with the Federal Government recently granting States authority to not have to comply with all the Federal requirements mandated to ensure Absentee Military Vets have their votes counted, I am concerned about our troops up here having all their votes accurately counted.
Lisa has already shown by deed and word that she does not respect the will of the electorate and is willing to go the extra yard to challenge Absentee Ballots. If winning is all she cares about, then it makes sense for Murkowski to challenge each and every Military Absentee Ballot this November because chances are they will not be for Murkowski. And especially in this State which has a small population, and where the Primary difference in votes between Miller and Lisa was only 2,000 votes, successfully challenging Absentee Military Ballots could have a huge influence on who comes out the winner. So keep your eyes open for what happens after November 2nd in Alaska. That may be when the election battle really begins.
Ah, but the DOJ knows exactly what it’s doing – and it’s mission is NOT to ensure that those serving in the military get their ballots on time in order to vote. Dragging their heels, picking their noses,reading their Facebook pages and going out for coffee – anything to make sure those ballots DON’T get out. We wouldn’t want them voting now, would we?
A modest proposal.
Much more modest, I assure you.
Since the Justice Departmen seems quite enthused in not doing their duty and their job, may we be equally as enthused in not paying them their wages? Think of the money that could instead be paid towards the debt, and we can even count it as a job saved or created.
its called affirmative action-they are a bunch of racist and they have no shame in admitting it—they are all bringing in over $200K+ a year just for picking their noses and supporting the black panthers–remember the lawyer the whistle blower who told what they said and were doing??? Its all a sham–obama is a “MOLE” paid by the arabs and their agenda….bring down America anyway you can!
The whistle-blower on the Black Panther case is the same guy who wrote this article…
It’s not incompetence but intentional.
Surprise, surprise.
Here in Tennessee all military are emailed their ballots and can vote electronically, this has just been instituted. All other states should be able to do the same.
It might do some good to research how this state can do this while others can not.
I truly, personally, permanently despise these thugs and what they are doing to this nation and her citizens. When does incompetence become malfeasance? When does malfeasance become treason? Or, failing either of those, when do we have a vote on whether or not we just want to disband as a sovereign nation, throw away the Constitution officially, withdraw/cancel the Declaration of Independence and just blow ourselves up?
They’re trying to kill us as a nation. I don’t intend to commit suicide. I intend to live.
I truly, truly, truly despise these unAmerican thugs. God help THEM when normal Americans take the country back. We WILL be law abiding, and they WILL be held accountable, under the law.
and I will never, ever, forget this term and what they tried to do to America once they got into power-like him using the Executive Order to write any law he felt like with a stroke of the pen and insulting our Supreme Court Justices and our MILITARY begging, pleading for help, NEVER, NEVER! And my childrens children will neve forget what they tried to do to America! Starving our farmers (raising grain 3x), our fishing, our colleges, our mortages (him getting the biggest kick back) on & on…
Well let’s see. DOJ, Holder, State of illinoise (intentional), BHO, Rambo……hmmmm, nah, it just a big koinkidink. Nothing to see hear, more right along……..
Hope PJM won’t mind, but I frisbee in here a great petition that needs signatures: the re-broadcast/ release og DVD of the SOOO important “The Path to 9/11″ – below is the link for the e-mail petition (I found it on Breitbart’s Big Hollywood):
“DISNEY/ABC, REBROADCAST THE PATH TO 911 FOR THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY AND RELEASE IT ON DVD!”
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/thepathto911/
Let’s cut to the chase. Obama’s ONLY objective and Holder’s ONLY objective is redistribution of wealth and power – STEALING from white people and giving it to people of color.
THAT is why Obama and Holder will NEVER move to the middle. Those unscrupulous street hustlers will bleed white people for all that they can get from them until Republicans get the balls to shut them down, and they won’t find fault with any people of color for any reason, because people of color are their allies.
We’re witnessing perhaps the biggest scam in history. The rip-off of all white people by all people of color. Street hustlers Al Sharpton and Obama and Holder and Maxine Waters, etc., must be high-fiving each other and laughing at stupid white suckers every day, and the biggest suckers of all are white liberals.
BTW, it’s reasonable to suspect that that $18,000,000 in stimulus money that was recently paid to dead people was, in fact, paid to black people who used the names of dead people to vote fraudulently, and that was just the tip of the iceberg of the HUGE amount of money that black people are now stealing from white people in my carefully considered opinion.
Our service members deserve the right to vote.
Obama will have ACORN register illegals, dead, dogs and felons but he will cheat our service members.
He is a disgusting thug.
This conniving, incompetence, whatever it is is outrageous. Our military ought to be the FIRST to get their ballots. No excuses. Disgusting.
The Algore disenfranchisement of Florida military members in 2000 was the beginning of my questioning of liberalism, which ultimately changed me into a staunch conservative. If the dems insist on a repeat performance, we should take advantage of it — encourage our liberal friends to question a system that systematically denies voting rights to the very men and women who ensure we have any rights at all.
I’m just sickened by this blatant treason and malfeasance on the part of the thug Obama Machine. I smell revolution if he’s not out in 2012 – and this 71-year-old (my age in 2012) will proudly join a cell and learn to use a gun. My theory is that at that stage in my life I’ll have nothing to lose, and I might as well go down swinging!
first;if we are fortunate enough,to get back control of the house.a message has to be sent first,to establishment,liberal,pork whore,obama zombie elitist republicans;your 50 year rein,and control of the republican party is over;the pork stops here;remove pork whore republicans from their commitee positions.like the appropriations commitee.such as jerry lewis.they had their chance to do right and squandered it.excuses be damned;do a moratorium,on all future,pork/earmarks/bribes,etc.that is not directly related to,retirement,emergencies, national security/national defense,etc;stop all funding to the justice department,that is related to the lawsuits,against the american taxpayer/citizens,and on behalf of foreign,entitities.such as the lawsuits in arizona,etc;investigate,and audit the justice department,then secure our borders;stop all funding to the environmental protection agency,investigate/audit as well all environmentalist groups that recieve federal funding;until they stop their radical attempts to crush america’s economy/energy independence;to weaken america,and prop up anti=american foreign governments,such as brazil,venezuela,russia,china,and middle eastern sponsors of terrorist,as well,anti-american entitities,activist,and sponsors.do a thorough investigation/audit of all groups,organizations,entities,sponsors,and political leaders.believed to be part of these embezzelment/extortion,plots,and world wide ponzi schemes.such as rainbow coalition,planned deadbeat parenthood, c.a.r.e.larasa,black panthers,and all others who have declared openly their hatred of capitalism/the free enterprise system,individual,and religious freedom.and that have sought to destroy the same.balance our budget on the bank accounts,and property of those that have continually demanded,and forced others to suffer their own,lives,liberties,resources,and property;to fund the favorite,causes welfare charities,and foreign entities,against the will,of the people,especially the constitutional limitations,of government power,against the people,and constitution;do it under they same atthority they used against law abiding,and independent americans.under the power of eminent domain,reperations,and reverse affirmative action,on behalf of,independence,equal rights,equal justice,individual,and religious freedom,vs collectivism.apply all reposessions to the national debt;no one who is living in america/taken-up residency,,in america,illegally,has no right to work,be educated,or recieve any government funding,unless they have gone through a visa,or citizenship,due process,examination,consideration,according to their,seniority,abilities,merits,and respect for american law,and the rights of others.all who knowingly hire an illegal immigrant regardless their national orgin,race,color,sex,religious beliefs,unless they have illegal,or harmful intent,against america,its laws,traditions,institutions,or its people.stop;unless dis-abled,and those over seas representing,their work, america’s interest;business,or military,etc.mail-in ballots; you are just encouraging more lawlessness,voter fraud,and i’m sorry folk’s; some people,just shouldn’t vote;you know,the one’s that believe taxpayer money is obama’s stash;there has to be a similar test of sorts,like what used to be necessary,in order to become,an american citizen;as their is some, that just shouldn’t drive a vehicle.there are way too many that just shouldn’t vote.stop outragious union,and government pensions,that do not merit the productivity,of those who benefit from them,and or early retirements that can not sustain,the expectations of the taxpayers,and businesses,forced to pay for the benefits of those pensions;there’s some solutions;more later;jimmy joe;”the liarfryer”
I have long believed that the Democrats are anti-military personnel. I guess they’re still mad because nearly the Army for voted for Lincoln.