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Ensure that deployed troops' votes count in the upcoming election!
- Posted to Support Veterans
To: The Voting Section of the Department of Justice
During the 2008 presidential elections, thousands of military voters were denied their civic voices when absentee ballots were sent to wrong addresses, lost in the mail, or –through no fault of their own – arrived after the election deadline. To prevent the future disenfranchisement of...
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The Military Voter Protection Project (MVP) has launched a new Heroes Vote Initiative to ensure that America’s service members have their voices heard in the upcoming presidential election. Due to the transitory nature of military life and the slow delivery process of absentee ballots, especially to war zones, military voters face significant challenges when attempting to cast their votes. This issue became glaringly apparent during the 2010 midterm elections when only 4.6 percent of military voters were able to cast a valid ballot, according to data from the Federal Election Assistance Commission.
The MOVE Act, which passed in Congress in 2009, aimed to protect the voting rights of American soldiers abroad by requiring states to allow a 45-day window for mail delivery of absentee ballots. However, many states failed to implement the law two years ago, once again costing our men and women in uniform their votes.
As November draws closer, MVP’s nationwide campaign is calling on the Voting Section of the Department of Justice to pressure states to comply with the MOVE Act and ensure that military absentee ballots are not lost in the mail, delivered too late, or never delivered at all. They are also rallying local military and veterans groups, as well as state and local election officials, to make military voters a priority. Sign the petition to tell the Voting Section of the Department of Justice to pressure state and county officials to enforce the MOVE act, giving military voters their rightful opportunity to participate in the upcoming presidential elections. Those who lay it on the line for us deserve to take part in the very democracy they fight to defend!
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Update #1
Posted on Jul 23, 2012We've received amazing support from patriotic Americans like you, but need even more help to reach our goal of 10,000 signatures!
The good news is that our voices are starting to be heard – just last week the nonpartisan Military Voter Protection Project commended in a news release many states' efforts to protect veterans' voting rights. After analyzing each state's legislative efforts to eliminate barriers to military voter participation and to assist military members serving abroad, they...
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I rec'd and signed, Edward K Cimasko.
eddy, just thinking how it looks, michael moore pic and all lol
Good Luck ♥.
If it wasn't for our troops we wouldn't have our freedom. They deserve any and everything special they can get. Some of the govt. officials wouldn't even go fight if necessary so the least they can do is support the ones who have. God bless our soldiers. Love them all.
Amen
Our military's right to have their votes counted should be paramount!
Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago? On the
present course do you see yourself better off than now than in the next 4 years under Obama & his policies and his constant legislating by Ex
Preserve the right to vote and the integrity of the vote especially for members of the military!
I just a step further. Since several Muslim countries are now actively calling for their people to kill Americans; I just wrote to all my Federal reps to recall our our diplomats and bring our soldiers and citizens home!
sounds good to me!
Please sign this petition. Publicize it in every way you can. We cannot let the people who defend our right to vote lose their opportunity to do so.
Support All Veterans!
I think they got it all wrong. They should be the ones to have early voting so that they can be sure that they do have all of voters that deserve to have their vote counted. As it is they are the ones out their fighting for the rights that we should all be exercising so that we can get all of the laws passed and maybe the ones passed that can help our solders that come home with no jobs, no homes and no help from the government to get them back to work as fast as possible. And not to forget some may have no family left too.
If I had my way our troops would be the first in line to vote!