More Democrat Voter Fraud: Soldier Voting Scandal

“The least we at home can do is to make sure that they are able to enjoy the rights they are being asked to fight to preserve.” (Truman)

How low can you go? If you're a Democrat, there's no bottom. Denying America's finest young people who are fighting for our very way of life their vote is obscene.

The Soldier Voting Scandal Thursday, July 24, 2008 By Robert D. Novak

Rep. Roy Blunt, the House Republican whip, on July 8 introduced a resolution demanding that the Defense Department do a better job of enabling the U.S. military personnel overseas to vote in the November elections. That act was followed by silence. Democrats normally leap on an opportunity to find fault with the Bush Pentagon. But not a single Democrat joined Blunt as a co-sponsor, and an all-Republican proposal cannot pass in the Democratic-controlled House.  

Analysis by the federal Election Assistance Commission, rejecting inflated Defense Department voting claims, estimated overseas and absentee military voting for the 2006 midterm elections at a disgracefully low 5.5 percent. The quality of voting statistics is so poor that there is no way to tell how many of the slightly over 330,000 votes actually were sent in by the absentee military voters and their dependents and how many by civilian Americans living abroad -- 6 million in total.  

Nobody who has studied the question objectively sees any improvement since 2006, and that is a scandal. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Henry wrote in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: “While virtually everyone involved … seems to agree that military people deserve at least equal opportunity when it comes to having their votes counted, indications are that in November 2008, many thousands of service members who try to vote will do so in vain.”

At least!

Henry, now an independent broadcast journalist, has personal experience with this enduring scandal. While serving as a Marine at sea off Iran, he received his 1980 presidential ballot too late to count. President Harry Truman said of troops fighting in Korea, “The least we at home can do is to make sure that they are able to enjoy the rights they are being asked to fight to preserve.” But the U.S. military that has so perfected the art of war over the past half-century is at a loss to enable soldiers to vote.  

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Comments

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In the 2000 election, Al Gore got several thousand overseas votes tossed. He further tried to invalidate all overseas military votes in in Florida on the assunption that military personel would vote for Bush. He was right and his attempt failed.

Dragon Lady's Den has a CNN video concerning Obama's first run for office and how he destroyed the competition before the election with legal challenges to the petition signatures.

Disenfranchising voters is what Democrats do.