What a suprise Democrats blocking Soldiers from voting

lavell12 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 04:53 AM

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...g_scandal.html

I guess it doesn't matter who they are as long as they vote Republican they shouldn't have the right to vote.

The Jovial One · #2 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:06 AM

Please share with us your statistics about the partisan nature of these votes... with a breakdown of how many were Republican, how many were Democrat, and how many were Independent.

You might also explain just HOW "Democrats" are "preventing" overseas military from voting... since Novak's column doesn't give anyone a CLUE as to how. (I guess he was just stressed from running over a pedestrian yesterday and didn't have TIME to provide any... facts.)

Go.

lavell12 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by The Jovial One

Please share with us your statistics about the partisan nature of these votes... with a breakdown of how many were Republican, how many were Democrat, and how many were Independent.

Go.

I'll get the numbers from 2004 for you shortly, I don't know how many of these particluar people but I do know that the Dems are blocking it just like Gore tried to stop soldiers votes from counting in 2000.

The Jovial One · #4 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by lavell12

I'll get the numbers from 2004 for you shortly, I don't know how many of these particluar people but I do know that the Dems are blocking it just like Gore tried to stop soldiers votes from counting in 2000.

Or like Bush tried to stop blacks from voting. Yeah, yeah, we get it.

Put up your proof, please.

UncleDan · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:37 AM

I think you'd be suprised to know that many in the miitary are Democrats....just because theyre in the military doesnt mean they are right-wingers.

MasTequila · #6 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by The Jovial One

Or like Bush tried to stop blacks from voting. Yeah, yeah, we get it.

Put up your proof, please.

Put your proof up of Bush trying to stop blacks from voting.

BuckNaked · #7 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 06:02 AM

This is a problem that stems from the military AKA the Pentagon directly being indignant and reckless with the soldiers vote by not insuring that they have the opportunity to make their vote heard. This has been a problem for the last half century according to the article you submitted?

From the article;

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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.

A combat officer has enough to do without handling the votes of troopers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Defense Department Inspector General's report in March last year recommended "appointment of civilian personnel" as "voting assistance officers." The Pentagon brass rejected the idea.

I reported four years ago that the problems of 2000 overseas military voting had not been corrected for the 2004 presidential election. At that time, Under Secretary of Defense David Chu was put in charge of the problem. During massive turnover at the Pentagon, Chu remains in place -- best known among critics of the military vote problem for his chronic failure to return telephone calls.

One presidential staffer who is familiar with the situation privately dismisses the Pentagon bureaucrats as "hopeless." In a lame-duck administration counting the days before a troubled eight years finally end, American fighting men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan deprived of their right to vote constitute the least of White House worries.

If this is a Pentagon problem then the commander in chief and his crew are the ones to blame for not addressing this matter since 2000 then again in 2004.

Although I agree democrats should be as concerned about disenfranchising voters as any other public official should be, this is and has been in the republicans control since 2000 to make the appropriate and necessary changes to insure this isn’t the case.

The Jovial One · #8 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MasTequila

Put your proof up of Bush trying to stop blacks from voting.

Start a thread about it, and I will.

But let's see some proof on THIS subject... for once.

Birdzeye · #9 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by The Jovial One

Please share with us your statistics about the partisan nature of these votes... with a breakdown of how many were Republican, how many were Democrat, and how many were Independent.

You might also explain just HOW "Democrats" are "preventing" overseas military from voting... since Novak's column doesn't give anyone a CLUE as to how. (I guess he was just stressed from running over a pedestrian yesterday and didn't have TIME to provide any... facts.)

Go.

Spot on! Novak doesn't explain how Democrats are actually "blocking" soldiers from voting, but it's a great rant that many GOPers and Bush apologists are sure to run on, even though it's bogus.

The Jovial One · #10 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by MidwestMax

Yes, same as with the others who are asking. We'd like you to back up your assertions.

I always do.

Now, what does this have to do with the discussion of whether or not "Democrats" are "blocking" soldiers from voting?

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