Maybe you voted for Obama enticed by his campaign message of “Hope and Change”.  Well, how about this hope and change moment:  his Department of Justice under Eric Holder has failed again.  First we had the case of voter intimidation in Philadelphia by the New Black Panther party (new reports show that two of the people involved have records of violent behavior in the past – this case is not over and done with, in my opinion).  Now, we have a case where multiple states are failing on the recent MOVE act.

MOVE is the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment act which passed Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support in 2009.  It requires states to prepare and send ballots for elections to overseas and military voters 45 days before the election.  Five states, Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington, have received waivers extending their time to deliver the ballots to Americans overseas risking having the ballots be tossed out for late return.  Another four states (Alaska, Colorado, Maryland and Hawaii) along with the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands have indicated that they will fail to meet this deadline as well.  Wisconsin negotiated with the Justice Department to a 32 day advance mailing after pushing for a 29 day deadline.

While I’m not one for conspiracy theories and I generally attribute these issues to poor planning and laziness or stupidity on the parts of the states, there is the fact that while on a national level the “generic ballot” is essentially tied at 46% but according to polls of American GIs, they are 41% GOP, 32% Independent and 29% Democrat.  If we discount the lazy enforcement of the bipartisan bill by the Obama Justice Department and Eric Holder and return to my theory, let’s look at who is running these states:

Alaska: Republican governor, mixed, leaning Republican
Colorado: Democrat governor, Democrat legislature
Delaware: Democrat governor, Democrat legislature
District of Columbia: Democrat mayor, Democrat council
Hawaii: Republican governor, Democrat legislature
Maryland: Democrat governor, Democrat legislature
Massachusetts: Democrat governor, Democrat legislature
New York: Democrat governor, Democrat legislature
Rhode Island: Republican governor, Democrat legislature
U.S. Virgin Islands: Democrat governor

This is pretty simple – these folks, primarily the deployed servicemen and women should be the FIRST in line to vote.  We should do all we can to ensure their right and ability to vote and not let it be susceptible to party bickering along technicalities due to the inabilities of others to execute against a plan and deadline that has been in place for months.

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