Holder Do Your Job

It’s time for socialist Eric Holder to do his Job as Attorney General.  Holder can sue Arizona for enforcing laws, but can’t or won’t protect the voting rights of our men and women overseas in the military.  This is one more example of a corrupt Attorney General not fit for the job.  Would Holder remain silent and do nothing if it were a black region not getting their ballots?

Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington are dragging their feet on the urgent task of delivering absentee mid-term-election ballots to overseas service members. The response at Justice’s Voting Rights Division in Washington, D.C. is absent.  Again I ask, would Holder remain silent and do nothing if it were a black region not getting their ballots.

Saturday, September 18 will mark 45 days until the election. According to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE Act), that is the deadline by which states must send unmarked ballots overseas. That period should allow ballots to reach GIs, from bases in Germany to trenches in Afghanistan, and return by Election Night.

These five states have received waivers from the MOVE Act, essentially giving them extensions on doing their jobs and upholding their responsibilities.  . Primary elections last Tuesday gave Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin only four days to determine party nominees, print ballots, and send them off. Rather than employ this cramming-for-finals approach, election officials in these states should have scheduled primaries early enough to avoid this headache. Meanwhile, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands also have indicated an inability to adhere to Saturday’s deadline.

As U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R – TX) reminded Justice in a July 28 letter:

There are only three types of “undue hardship” that are an adequate excuse for a state to seek a waiver: (i) The State's primary election date prohibits the State from complying; (ii) The State has suffered a delay in generating ballots due to a legal contest; or (iii) The State Constitution prohibits the State from complying.  If none of these situations exists, then the state may not apply for a waiver, and the federal government may not grant one.

Former Justice Department voting rights attorney J. Christian Adams, reports, Washington got a waiver despite its August 17 primary, which gave it plenty of time to transmit military ballots. Delaware applied for a waiver “just in case” problems arose. Rhode Island asked for and received a waiver since there might be a hypothetical recount.

The Defense Department, which grants waivers, asked Justice to help prepare guidelines so states would understand this new law’s waiver rules and other details. Last May 24, the Pentagon asked Justice to review this “interim” guidance.

J. Christian Adams explained, “Officials in the Voting Section allowed the Pentagon draft to gather dust. In fact, the Department of Justice never replied.”

Could this lack of enforcement and action from the DOJ be because military personnel tend to vote Republican?  Is Holder and the DOJ disenfranchising the military vote for strictly political reasons?

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