By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--November 8, 2010
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Eric Eversole, executive director of the Military Voter Protection Project, told CNSNews.com., "I'm incredibly concerned that ballots were mailed out 25 days before an election, meaning there is a significant chance they won't make it to service members prior to an election," "Will some troops be disenfranchised? Possibly. How widespread, I don't know." As part of congressional hearings for the MOVE Act, studies showed it can take more than 30 days for a ballot to get to a combat area, Eversole said. His organization called the apparent delays in mailing overseas ballots to the attention of Attorney General Eric Holder in September. Last week, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez said the Justice Department has helped 65,000 voters through enforcement action. But the Justice Department has not been doing what it needs to do to ensure that all military votes are counted, said Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee. "If the Voting Rights Section has 20 staff members engaged in a nationwide compliance program, I would expect they would detect noncompliance promptly without relying on private organizations," Lungren wrote in an Oct. 28 letter to Perez. "The claim to have 'helped' 65,000 voters whose ballots were, in fact, sent late seems to illustrate failure rather than success, and the department seems to be more focused on protecting its image than on building an effective mechanism to produce compliance."As indicated here, problems with the military vote were particularly acute in Illinois. Illinois? Is it sheer coincidence that Barack Obama’s home state was remise in making the vote accessible for those in the military who, for the most part, would vote against Obama’s Marxist cohorts? Although the Republican tsunami has taken some of the urgency out of getting to the bottom of the mismanagement of the military vote, the GOP must not shrink from the challenge to investigate and punish those responsible. No American is more deserving of the right to vote than the American military, and the GOP must move boldly to assure that those patriotic Americans are not denied this most precious right!
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.