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| ACORN, Yes! American Soldiers, No! |
| 2008-10-24 |
| ACORN, yes! American soldiers...not so much. That's the message from Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin to local members of the US military. The same Secretary of State who has thus far refused to even investigate ACORN's activities here in Massachusetts--and who supports giving tax dollars to a group committing election fraud--won't do his job to protect the right to vote for men and women fighting for our nation abroad. One of the problems uncovered during the 2000 Florida fiasco is that American military personnel deployed abroad often don't get their chance to vote. Ballots arrive too late, aren't processed when they return, are disqualified on technical grounds without the soldiers ever knowing, etc. So Congress passed a law in 2002 mandating that election officials like Secretary of State Galvin track track how many soldiers and overseas voters request a ballot, have one sent to them, and how many come back and are actually counted. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 ACORN the long arm of the illuminati party. Its pathatic how our troops get treated, especially while they are out fighting a war for us. It doesn't matter if you agree with the war or not, our troops don't deserve to be treated like 2nd class citizen. |
| Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Spaviter8541 2008-10-24 23:46 |
| #5 Well at least homelessness, poverty, and the Second Great Depression and a buncha other bad stuff will no longer exist, so we got that going for us... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-24 14:12 |
| #4 If Obama wins, come January 20th and dissent will no longer be patriotic. Count on it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-24 13:51 |
| #3 Well, if you honestly believe that dissent is the highest form of patriotism, this makes sense. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2008-10-24 13:12 |
| #2 I think Washington State did something similar to this in '04. The King County Elections office (same ones who 'found' ballots during recounts) waited until the very-very last minute to send out the ballots and even then only did so under threat of a lawsuit. And of course this year the DNC tried to get the military ballots already shipped invalidated because the Gov. Candidate Dino Rossi had 'G.O.P.' instead of 'Republican' after his name. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-10-24 12:07 |
| #1 back in 68 they chopperd (sp.) the ballots into firebase Bastogne along with the hot Carling beer and sat us down and made us vote. They did not have to make us drink the hot beer. Of course I have no idea if they were ever counted, but the attempt was made. I would think that today what with the improved communication and all that it would be possible for the military ballots to be counted. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-10-24 11:34 |