Obama admin working overtime to suppress the military vote

[_bcspace]

However, what I want to focus on here is without doubt the most despicable tactic the Obama camp has yet pursued in its efforts to stay in power through tampering with America’s hallowed election system. I’m talking about something even more outrageous than the Holder “Justice Department” attempting to block states from enforcing Voter ID requirements or purging dead people from their voter rolls – and even more corrupt than the left’s ACORN-style “swamping” of election officials with thousands of new (and often bogus) voter registrations at the very last minute and their national campaigns soliciting foreigners to vote.

As you may know, last month the Obama re-election campaign sued Ohio state officials in an attempt to suppress, in that pivotal swing state, the votes of America’s military men and women – people who traditionally lean conservative and vote Republican. (CNN exit polling data from 2008 show voters favored Republican John McCain over Obama by a 10-point margin, 54 to 44 percent.)

Now, the Obama camp vehemently denies any and all suggestions it is suppressing the military vote, claiming it simply wants an even playing field for all.

Let’s look at it: Current Ohio law – being challenged in the lawsuit brought by Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee and the Ohio Democratic Party against Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and the state’s Attorney General Mike DeWine – includes a special provision to allow military voters to cast their ballots during the last three days (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) immediately prior to Election Day. However, according to the Obama lawsuit, Ohio’s special concession to military voters – an acknowledgment of the difficulty soldiers deployed overseas often encounter in trying to get their vote in on time – is “arbitrary” and has “no discernible rational basis.” Remember those words, for as we’ll soon see they are the key to understanding this grand deception.

Because the Ohio situation is somewhat complex and involves several different bills and a bit of recent legislative history, I will only touch on the highlights, but will commend to you a good RedState blog posting if you’re up for an in-depth, play-by-play review of the relevant Ohio voting laws.

However, beyond a few right-thinking bloggers, reporters and talk-show hosts, the vast, perpetually mesmerized pro-Obama media – and even the establishment’s arbiters of All Truth On The Internet, Snopes, Politifact and FactCheck – side with Obama and characterize as “shameful” the comments made by the Romney campaign and the few analysts who see the Obama lawsuit for what it is – an attempt to restrict military voting.

Indeed, the elite press currently overflows with articles accusing those claiming the Ohio lawsuit is bad for the military of being both wrong and dishonest.

Really?

Is that why no fewer than 15 military organizations have joined together to fight this particular Obama-machine lawsuit in court? I’m talking about:

The National Guard Association of the United States
The Association of the U.S. Army
The Association of the U.S. Navy
The Marine Corps League
The Military Officers Association of America
The Reserve Officers Association
The National Association of the Uniformed Services
The Non Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S.A.
The Army Reserve Association
The Fleet Reserve Association
The Special Forces Association
The U.S. Army Ranger Association, Inc.
AMVETS
The National Defense Committee
The Military Order of the World Wars

Are America’s armed forces wrong and dishonest? Do the Army, Navy and Marine organizations listed above not understand the issues of military voting as thoroughly as the experts at Snopes and Media Matters? Are the Special Forces and Army Ranger groups just plain dumb?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/yes-obama-really-is-suppressing-the-military-vote/

[_palerobber]

[...] even the establishment’s arbiters of All Truth On The Internet, Snopes, Politifact and FactCheck – side with Obama and characterize as “shameful” the comments made by the Romney campaign [...]

thanks for bringing yet another case of Romney spreading easily disproved lies to everyone's attention, bcspace.

[_EAllusion]

Obama's lawsuit is attempting to return early in-person voting to all voters. It has nothing to do with being overseas. The Republican controlled legislature ended 3 day early in-person voting for all voters except members of the military because that group leans Republican. The net effect is to make voting more inconvenient for everyone but one particular Republican leaning demographic. This is unconstitutional (and immoral) voter suppression that the Obama DOJ is correctly challenging. It seeks to simply revert back to early voting for everyone, including members of the military, so to suggest that it is an attack on the military vote is dishonest. And it's exceptionally ugly because that dishonesty is being done in the service of actually suppressing votes.

So, par for the course for you I suppose.

[_Analytics]

... And it's exceptionally ugly because that dishonesty is being done in the service of actually suppressing votes.

So, par for the course for you I suppose.

Actually, I thought it was above-par because it wasn't full of an arbitrary set of words being highlighted blue.

[_krose]

This is misleading, of course. What else is new?

Specifically, the military lobbying associations joined the case because they were worried that a judge might react to the suit by getting rid of the military exception, rather than what the Democratic groups are requesting, which is to restore the previous system, which allowed early voting for everyone. That's highly unlikely.

[_krose]

Does anyone wonder why the Republicans who run these states (Ohio, Florida, etc.) are trying to stop early voting on the weekend before Election Day?

It's because black congregations have a tradition called "Souls to the Polls," wherein they gather their members on the Sunday before Election Day and caravan to the polling places right after church.

This kind of vote suppression is the real voter fraud.