After that stunning poll in Military Times , here are the consequences:
Fairfax Virginia is tossing their votes away
Military ballots are being tossed in Fairfax Co, VA because of a “technicality.”
You should have stayed quiet, guys. Like the 80% who hang up on pollsters.
Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law — then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling — requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness.
Aparently, the ballots themselves were not changed for the new requirements
The McCain campaign said there’s not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in recent years and the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn’t changed.
In other words, the soldiers made no mistakes on their ballot, the state did. The soldiers are just paying for it. Or rather for voting for the wrong candidate.
I am actually surprised to read this from Mark Ambinder
Democrats insist they’re biased towards access… so will they try to intervene on behalf of these voters?
I think not. You’re out of luck soldiers. out there fighting , instead of having messy ballots by ACORN…plus of course, voting for the wrong candidate.
Not Your Sweetie 
16 comments
October 24, 2008 at 8:19 am
Stray Yellar Dawg
Where is the “non-partisan” ACORN when our men and women in uniform need help?
Too busy registering kids, cats, dogs and dead people?
October 24, 2008 at 9:07 am
insightanalytical
A SPECIAL POST: As the Violence of Obama’s Followers Escalates, A Former Resident of Communist Romania Expresses Her Fears about Obama and What is Happening to Our Country
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/a-special-post-a-former-resident-of-communist-romania-expresses-her-fears-about-obama-and-what-is-happening-to-our-country/
And so it seems it has begun here…now…
A must read.
October 24, 2008 at 9:38 am
TheRealKim
My son is in Iraq and I will fight tooth and nail to see that his vote is counted.
October 24, 2008 at 9:55 am
edgeoforever
Gloria,
I commented in that thread. She knows what she’s talking about.
October 24, 2008 at 9:56 am
insightanalytical
Thank you, edge…
October 24, 2008 at 10:10 am
Judy R
That’s pretty disgusting. I wonder whose responsibility it was to make sure the new legislature was followed up on?
October 24, 2008 at 11:22 am
Donna
Email the Fairfax County, Virginia Board of Supervisors and ask them to stop this. Fairfax County, Virginia is a good county. The elected officials will not stand for this.
chairman@fairfaxcounty.gov;dranesville@fairfaxcounty.gov;hntrmill@fairfaxcounty.gov;mason@fairfaxcounty.gov;springfield@fairfaxcounty.gov;sully@fairfaxcounty.gov;
Some on the Board of Supervisors have contact forms instead of email addresses, so the above is a partial list of Supervisors.
Fairfax County is in the 8th and 10th U.S. Congressional Districts. Call their congressmen,
Republican Frank Wolf at 202-225-5136
and
Democrat James Moran at 202-225-4376.
You don’t have to be an expert. Just tell them to stop disenfranchising the American military personnel who are serving overseas. They will know what to do to stop it.
October 24, 2008 at 11:53 am
Grail Guardian
There are no words to express my anger at this.
October 24, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Laurie
Governor Kaine cannot run for reelection, as Virginia is the last state where Governors cannot succeed themselves.
Does it surprise you that cheating occurs in States with Dem Governors?????
It’s too late now for soldiers overseas to get new ballots and revote.
It has always been BO’s tactic to remove “those” voters on technicalities (Alice Palmer), but to argue in a legal capacity for no implementation of voter id. (as it could harm the right to vote of little, old, minority ladies without driving licenses.)
October 24, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Laurie
Just saw this on Ace of Spades:
http://minx.cc/?post=276425
“Fairfax county’s just enforcing the law in this election, eh?
Their boss, Fairfax County supervisor Gerry Connolly is RUNNING FOR CONGRESS AS A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!
And then he came out for maintaining Fairfax County’s sanctuary county policy toward illegal aliens and called those who disagree with him racist.
And now his employees JUST HAPPEN to rule against military voters while Connolly is running for Congress?”
October 24, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Faye
A similar thing happened to the overseas military ballots in the 2000 election in Florida. The state required a date on the absentee ballot. That’s fair I can understand that. However from what I heard reported if the mail is going from one military base to another base the date is not required. So when all of these absentee ballots arrived in Florida for the 2000 elections, if they had come through the military system the date was not on them and they were tossed.
October 24, 2008 at 3:41 pm
30yrdem
I can’t believe I was a democrat for so long. I believed them lie after lie for years. My son is in the military and for the dems to do this to our troops who are fighting in a war to protect our country from terrorism and bring the right to vote to the people in Iraq. It just makes me want to cry.
God bless our Troops and God bless America.
October 24, 2008 at 3:53 pm
WolfmanJack
I too am embarrassed that I was a Democrat for so many years.
No more.
October 25, 2008 at 1:32 am
Woman Voter
What a shame, to disenfranchise the very men and women fighting the wars and Obama still hasn’t released his selective service records. I hope they recall every one of the legislators in that state that allowed this to happen.
It sound all too familiar to me just like not counting the votes for Hillary in the PRIMARY. They are bending over backwards to get Obama elected and trampling on citizens voting rights to get it done. If McCain gets elected I hope the first thing he does is pass a NEW VOTING RIGHTS ACT to prevent all this none sense from happening again.
October 25, 2008 at 4:29 am
Edmund in Tokyo
You should probably post an update on this.
Apparently the State Board of Elections told the county registrar in question that he’d mis-interpreted the law and the votes should be counted.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/10/virginia_miliary_absentee_ball.php
October 28, 2008 at 11:16 am
Debbie Richards
The Democrats aren’t doing this. Spin all you want, but you can’t blame Dems for this.