I've been notified twice while deployed that my vote didn't get counted once from some court decision and once because my 1SG didn't get them in in time.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:17 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Military Vote > > >Hey all, > >My platoon Sergeant was telling me something about the people not > >wanting the military vote to count, and I am googling it but > all I can > >find are individual states wanting to suppress or restrict > the military > >vote, not the nation as a whole. Since our satelite has not > worked in a > >while, and internet time is limited, is there any truth to this? I > >casted my absentee ballot and I would hope that it counts. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Bruce > > found this bit: > http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081110/gumbel2 > Vote Suppression Watch > By Andrew Gumbel > > This article appeared in the November 10, 2008 edition of The Nation. > October 22, 2008 > > * Email > * Print > * Share > o Buzz up! > o Buzzflash > o del.icio.us > o Digg > o Facebook > o Add to Mixx!Mixx it! > o Reddit > > What is this? > * Take Action > * Web Letters (1) > * Write a Letter! > * Subscribe Now > > Text Size > > * A > * A > * A > > Michigan. The Republican Party chair in Macomb County, in the > northern Detroit suburbs, told the Michigan Messenger in > early September that he was planning a vote-caging operation > aimed at the former owners of foreclosed homes--a group more > or less guaranteed to generate a large quantity of returned > mail and thus potential challenges. A storm of outrage > ensued, and within a week the chair was denying he had > launched such an initiative and claiming that he was misquoted. > > Share this article > > * > * > * > * > * Add to Mixx! > * > * > > * Related > * Also By > > * > Nader's Stubborn Idealism > > Presidential Election 2008 > > William Greider: Ralph Nader is a man of political > substance, trapped in an era of easy lies. > * > Steal Back Your Vote > > Voters & Voting > > MSNBC : Rachel Maddow talks to Robert Kennedy Jr. about > the systematic purging of voters off of the rolls nationwide, > and what you can do about it. > * > A Bad Case of Electuenza > > Presidential Election 2008 > > Annabelle Gurwitch: Incessant cries for help--and > money--from people running campaigns are destroying my peace of mind. > > > More > > * > Vote Suppression Watch > > Presidential Election 2008 > > Andrew Gumbel: A close look at dirty tricks in key swing states. > * > Protect This Election > > Voters & Voting > > Andrew Gumbel: Pieces of Karl Rove's plan to suppress > the votes of students, minorities, the transient and the > elderly are still in place--and could threaten any races that > are remotely close. > * > Justice, Bush-Style > > Law & Justice > > Andrew Gumbel: GOP loyalists have taken over the > Justice Department and retooled the civil rights division as > a political weapon. > > Montana. The executive director of the state Republican Party > tried to have 6,000 voters in Democratic-leaning counties > removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had changed > their mailing addresses--at least according to an > out-of-state vendor who sells change-of-address information > for profit. The attempted purge was riddled with problems, > not least the fact that many of those changing addresses were > military personnel shipping out to Iraq and Afghanistan. The > party has now dropped the initiative. > > Wisconsin. Wisconsin's attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, who > also happens to be co-chair of the state McCain election > campaign, has sued the nonpartisan election board to try to > force a review of all voter registrations received since > January 2006 to make sure they tally with state records. The > move, which has yet to be resolved in court, has been widely > denounced as a partisan maneuver sure to interfere with the > voting rights of as many as 1 million people. > > Nevada. Nevada's attorney general and secretary of > state--both Democrats--ordered a raid on ACORN's Las Vegas > headquarters after reports surfaced that registration forms > gathered by the group included the starting lineup of the > Dallas Cowboys. ACORN points out, correctly, that it had > already alerted the authorities to questionable registration > forms (which it cannot, by law, destroy) and suspects the > raid is a vote suppression operation. More likely, though, > the authorities were under huge pressure from Nevada > Republicans to crack down on "voter fraud" and saw this as an > occasion to show themselves to be evenhanded and thus prevent > a backlash against Democrats on election day. > > * Get The Nation at home (and online!) for 75 cents a week! > * If you like this article, consider making a donation to > The Nation. > > About Andrew Gumbel > Andrew Gumbel is the author of Steal This Vote: Dirty > Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America > (Nation Books) and a US correspondent for The Independent of > London. more... > > * Copyright C 2008 The Nation > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276875 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
