Obama’s Invisible War Against Military Voters
West countered that “this law gave the responsibility to your office to be able to make sure that that stuff happened.”
Rep. Scott said it was “borderline negligence” for the Pentagon not to set up the required IVAOs. “It sure seems to me that the DoD could do it if they wanted to.”
In mid-2010, the Pentagon excelled at getting lengthy surveys about President Obama’s pet issue, “don’t ask, don’t tell,” to 200,000 soldiers overseas, Scott said, but when it comes to military voting “the effort is certainly subpar.”
Scott’s onto something.
Six U.S. senators have asked the Pentagon to make a serious good-faith effort to protect the votes of military personnel. “The price of [the Department of Defense’s] failure to follow the law will likely be paid this November by military service members and their families, whose voting rights were to have been safeguarded by this provision,” according to the letter signed by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.).
The Obama administration has every reason to believe it can successfully disenfranchise America’s fighting men and women.
In America, soldiers can’t talk back to their commander-in-chief.
Presidential candidate Malone: “You Generals can ensure sensitivity training, but cannot ensure your soldiers can vote? If they cannot vote in this election, then when I become President, you Generals are going to pay. You won’t get cashiered. You’ll get court-martialed. You’ll get nothing. Get it done, or GTFO!”
Americas generals have become a lot so low that all other lots they should envy. May Justice find them and may Mercy scorn them.
This administration is the most radical, anti-American, anti-military in U.S. history. There is no doubt about it.
Therefore, from soup to nuts, they are butt smacking the troops, and endangering them too.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/03/the-hunt-against-vets-excluding-muslim-servicemen-is-the-first-path-to-disarming-patriotic-americans-the-game-plan-to-label-right-wing-citizens-as-domestic-terrorists-dave-gaubatz-spills/
It is hard to believe that patriots are sitting still for this type of behavior.
Why would anyone be surprised? The Chicago Gang will do anything to steal votes. They know damn well about 80% of the military would vote against their crap, so they are not likely to do anything to increase vfoting by soldiers.
Obama has nothing against “warriors” per se, it’s just that as a group, they don’t vote for him. Probably nothing personal.
The Pentagon is run by the democrat partisan Panetta. Of course he would devote little or no resources to this effort. [It's a little like placing 500 border guards at the border in Texas/Ariz for 10 months and saying job done and saying we can't put anyone else out there because there is no money]
…a national disgrace…just another reason to vote Bumbama OUT!
No need to discuss the meanings of “is” or “was”. Nor is this “borderline negligence”. It’s a concerted effort to disenfranchise 2.5 Million voters. As these are members of our armed services, who make many sacrifices, often including limb and life, to protect us, it is tantamount to treason. Those responsible should be hauled into court.
Come to think, that obfuscating, buckpassing, Ms. Mitchell is a civilian, so any service member who doesn’t get to vote on time should have a case against her!
It seems to me that there is nothing invisible about Obama’s contempt for the military. He uses them as props and takes credit for events that are carried out by the real men all the while subverting their mission, undermining their warrior code, diluting their rules of engagement to the point where soldiers lives are increasingly at risk, and all the while we think he gveis a rats ass about their right to vote. He does care about subverting and frustrating their vote since he and his marxists handlers know that the military will vote against him–unless he can stop them.
Let’s not ever forget that as Marc Malone above pointed out, our generals are Obama’s very willing auxiliaries in this voter suppression as well as in bowing and scraping to Islam and Muslims every chance they get as well as a lot more.
I have lost all respect for The Brass. They do nothing about the rules of engagement our troops are forced to operate under and they do nothing to make sure they can vote. Only 6 senators signed this letter! Why is nothing more being done by Congress, hearings should have happened long ago, what a disgrace so many of our troops will have no say in who will be their CoC or Senators / House members…I keep calling my senators, please join me to light up the phones.
Here in the Federal Government, at a workplace with lots of active duty, we usually have a big “Voter Awareness” drive during election years. Not this year, maybe its a coincidence, maybe its not.
I had the (thankfully brief) misfortune to work for COL Pam Mitchell. She is a short haired short woman who joined the Army to take advantage of Affirmative Action and to screw over as many alpha males as she could. I see she is continuing her quest after all these years. People like her embody the reason we should fire pretty much the entire senior executive service.
Its all part of Obama’s pre-planned scenario. How about all those free phones? How about the Agri-department’s secretly giving illegals the right to receive free food stamps? How about the other two Fast and Furious episodes that Telemundo brought to light, the arming of Central American Gangs and the arming of gangs here in the US by our government?
Wasn’t there a comment made about having/arming their own army/police, outside of the normal law enforcement/military channels several years ago?
It really isn’t that difficult. Overseas was the voting assistance officer, among the myriad of other duties as assigned, in a unit back in the 70s. An old fashion book was distributed that listed by states the addresses for ballot requests and dates they needed to be in by. Sometimes it was a two part process of registering and then requesting the ballot. Walked a basic form to every troop in the unit along with an extra one if there was another family member. If the individual wanted to vote, we’d fill out the appropriate lines on the prepaid standard mail-in form was indicted by the book. Sometimes it required I authenticate, as a commissioned officer, the application. The standard was personally contacting a hundred percent of those assigned in the unit.
Simple is obviously too hard today.
The people who lack a real understanding of history [versus 'studies'] seem to forget that for 4,000 years, the grunts usually have the final and most effective vote, particularly when the state had de-legitimized itself among the population.
Not just overseas. I was in the Air Force for most of the 1980s, and every stateside unit had a voting assistance officer (or NCO, in the smaller units) who was tasked with helping troops register to vote and obtain the proper absentee ballot. They would even help you register in the local county if that’s what you wanted. If anyone didn’t vote, it was because he/she didn’t care to.
Is there any way for private individuals to move the paperwork faster than Federal Government speed? Here is a website with absentee ballot deadlines.
http://www.longdistancevoter.org/absentee_ballot_deadlines#.UGobla7wIdM
I’d like to see some of the private individuals currently funding the negative ad wars in the swing states working with military families on this issue. Maybe they could pay to move the paperwork using shipping companies like FedEx that are much faster than the post office. Learning from the 2000 election, the ballots have to get dropped in the mail in the US to get postmarked. Might be hard to move packages in and out of Afghanistan, but the other locations with US troops are accessible to commercial carriers.
One positive result of the 2010 elections is Republicans are in charge in several critical swing states like Florida and Ohio. If the paperwork can travel fast, the swing states probably won’t drag their feet.
Drudge is reporting military absentee ballot requests are down 92% in Virginia and almost as much in Ohio. They are shameless in their fraud and so are their cultist followers. Military families in the swing states MUST jump on this NOW or it will be too late. Also, in Iowa, it’s being reported that Dem absentee ballots are going through the roof. Pay attention, swing states! DO SOMETHING, PLEASE. The fate of our country depends on you.
This story landed on my desk the end of August, the result of Tom Philpott’s story in the Sun Journal: Resistance to reforms seen dampening the military vote. Virginia Watchdog picked it up Sept., as did a few other news sites (Eric Shawn at Fox ran what passed more for a talking points memo than a news story on Sept. 6). Why so late with this? How could you have possibly missed this? Will not launch into the details of how six GOP U.S. Senators asked Panetta to personally intervene on or about Sept. 6. Dick Morris was all over this, but was also ignored. Not a coincidence that the states most impacted by this are the three key swing states of VA, FL and OH. Was there deliberate suppression of military absentee ballot process by Panetta/Obama? That the Pentagon did not comply with enforcement of M.O.V.E. act points in that direction, and the lame excuse stonewalling from DOD lackey director, Pam Mitchell, mirrors the lies and deception of UN Ambassador Rice. Damn straight the military vote breaks 58% for Romney. And the democrat party contempt for the military is reflected in their consistent efforts to deny, delay, suppress, disqualify military votes. To George B. who posted deadlines for absentee ballots. The law requires every state to mail their absentee ballots 45 days prior to Election day, to overseas troops, government employees, and other Americans voting abroad. That deadline is passed. Not is their military absentee ballot voter fraud in Wisconsin, but the seat of the mob, Illinois, failed to have all of its absentee ballots mailed by Sept. 18. Where is the stomping, marching outcry? And shame on you, PJ Media for not being on top of this earlier, when there was a chance that ballots would still be counted, in time.
it amazes me that otherwise ‘honest’ people can’t (or won’t) see the corruption behind all this voter manipulation and fraud. if repub’s win, we need to follow up on every absentee ballot and prosecute every person who voted illegally. if we don’t, dem’s will take it as a free pass to cheat every election, kinda like now.
there is something that bothers me about the military these days. every black african American (or whatever they are called these days) soldier i know sees this corruption, knows the dem’s purposely suppress their vote, and yet they are obabots through and through. a vow to protect the constitution seems to mean squat to the vast majority of them. good to know.
i guess being an equal part of the greatest country/military in the world isn’t as important as being a part of the worst run and most corrupt administration since caligula.
From blogs I’ve read from current and recently departed military, blacks in the Obongo-controlled armed forces are effectively exempt from the UCMJ. No commander or senior NCO dares discipline one for fear of being called a racist — which apparently is now an even faster career-killer than a DUI. Small wonder the black troops adore the Magic Negro — not voting is a minuscule price to pay for being above the law.
Obama’s not really a “commander in chief”; He’s a sock puppet the Democrat Party passes around to imitate the talking points of The Party. You know, like a black Howdy Doodie. It’s easy to see by his lack of emotion.
Not surprising that Project Vote ACORN President would do this. Will the Republicans run ads about this? They should.
Why the HECK did they wait so long to pursue this? Why didn’t the questioning take place this summer?? Now these incompetents only have to sit there and nod their collectivist heads with no consequences. What a complete sham. And shame on the House for waiting so long to get on this…..
Might not be such a great idea to piss off hundreds of thousands of combat hardened Republican conservatives who have spent the last ten years killing people. Especially when it looks like most of them will be unemployed soon. Just saying.
Was told by county election officials, Monday, that voter registration in Florida closes October 9. Early voting begins October 27.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/
1-866-308-6739
Must be another one of those waiver things. You know the waivers, exemptions from meeting the health care law’s requirements for connected businesses and unions, exemptions from meeting the immigration law’s requirements for children, no defense for the defense of marriage act, and waiving the normal security for an ambassador in Libya. Makes you wonder if we’re really going to have an election?
Centralize military voting in IVAO, and then not provide IVAO: wicked smaht way to cut down on those pesky patriotic soldier’s votes.