15 Military Groups Oppose Obama Administration in Ohio Campaign Lawsuit (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, August 5, 2012, 4:15 PM
Fifteen military groups spoke out in opposition to the Obama Administration’s federal lawsuit to restrict military voting in Ohio.
They claim the Ohio suit is threatening certain voter protections that they have as service members.
Bloomberg reported:
The National Guard Association of the United States and more than a dozen other fraternal military groups asked a U.S. judge for permission to intervene in and oppose a lawsuit filed by President Barack Obama’s campaign challenging the fairness of Ohio’s early voting rules.
The campaign sued Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and Secretary of State Jon Husted on July 17, claiming the state’s two-tiered early voting process violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection under the law.
State law allows families of armed forces members and civilians overseas to vote through the Monday before an election while early voting for all other Ohioans ends the preceding Friday. The campaign seeks a court order invalidating the statutes.
“Members of the U.S. Armed Forces risk their lives to keep this nation safe and defend the fundamental constitutional right to vote,” the military groups said in in their request to intervene in the case.
“The Obama campaign’s and Democratic National Committee’s argument that it is arbitrary and unconstitutional to afford special consideration, flexibility, and accommodations to military voters to make it easier for them to vote in person is not only offensive, but flatly wrong as a matter of law,” the groups said.
Related… Earlier today David Axelrod on Fox News Sunday single-handedly reversed Obama’s entire messaging campaign on the Ohio military lawsuit, when he “absolutely” agreed that “members of the military who are serving this country deserve special consideration to vote.”
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bg commented:
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July 31, 2012
Making votes count
[Earlier this month, the nonpartisan Military Voters Protection Project
named Ohio one of 15 “ all-star states” for helping ensure that military
members get their votes counted. In the last 12 months, Husted’s office
has set up a system in which military ballots are sent electronically, but
must be printed out and returned by mail. Each is given a unique
tracking number, which the service member can use to track his or her
ballot and see that it is received.
[..Also in recent months, Husted’s office, by cross-checking records with
various state and federal databases, has cleaned up the voter rolls of
19,000 deceased Ohioans and hundreds of thousands of duplicate
registrations.]
August 3, 2012
Obama Campaign Sues in Bid to Suppress Military Vote
[In a move that could have an impact on the final result of the
presidential election, Barack Obama’s campaign has sued Ohio
to block a measure which extends early voting for members of
the military.
The action brought quick responses from Ohio Attorney
General Mike DeWine and as many as 15 military groups.
DeWine told Fox News on Friday that he found the July 17 action
by Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the
Ohio Democratic Party “quite shocking."
The tradition for allowing special circumstances for military
personnel in voting dates back to the civil war, he said.]
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DerpHoft commented:
Seriously Mr. Hoft? Please read the legal brief on this suit and you will find it has NOTHING to do with restricting military voting in Ohio. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air already posted the relevent update to this 2 days ago. Please do the same so that your readers can stay informed.
stonedome commented:
more from the fraud in the half white house…keep fighting, we are on the 20 yard line and entering the red zone. time to bull the ball over the goal line…
Ron? commented:
When you can’t win fairly, cheat! That’s the Obama and Dem way. Obama knows he has no chance in hell to win this election. Isn’t it funny how the party that cries disenfranchisement all of the damned time intentionally tries to didenfranchise conservative leaning voters such as military service men and women. Pathetic.
Rick554 commented:
This is a head fake by “Team” Obama. What the DNC really wants to do is open early voting to everyone so they can have additional time to stuff the ballot boxes with their bogus “voters”. The fact that they are using the military vote is simply another example of their disrespect for Sevice members. THIS ARMY dad will be watching verrrry closely.
Jeff commented:
If you do a minute’s research on this issue and still believe the “spin” on this, that this is an attempt to restrict military votes, you are truly brainwashed.
I don’t mean this as in insult. I mean this as a sincere warning… the facts in this are crystal clear. If you persist in believing this is an attempt by the Obama administration to restrict the votes of the military or to more effectively perpetrate voter fraud, you are not thinking rationally. Period.
I wish you the best of luck in this life but you’re being played for fools by hucksters.
MicahStone commented:
FYI: on the Sunday socialist media talk shows, which provide axeldouche all of the time he wants to promote OBOZO and slam Romney, axeldouch backed-off the latest anti-democracy, anti-military effort of the OBOZO campaign. “axeldouche Gives voice to campaign walk-back.” …more proof that the grand strategy of the OBOZO campaign consists of nothing but throwing “bill-maher” against the wall to see what sicks. (And they NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER mention any of the endless failures of OBOZO.)
US Navy Corpseman commented:
Ohio is a battleground state that ol’ Jugears needs desperately. He’ll do anything to keep Air Force One at his beck and call. They’ll have to drag him out of the White House while he clings to the drapes!
Kate commented:
Obama has never been a friend to the military. The upcoming budget cuts he wants will truly put our nation in danger and harm our military itself. He has to go. How Obama has any kind of positive rating is beyond my comprehension. Wake up people.
US Navy Corpseman commented:
Most of our great Presidents served in the military. Maybe it’s time for an amendment that requires military service in order to be Commander-in-Chief. Then we won’t be stuck with another weak-sister like the current cowardly ignorant twit.
Lightwave commented:
And yet in the same breath Obamee and the Democrat party are more than willing to fatally weaken America with 20% across the board cuts to our military during a time of war.
If we do not stop this President, our troops will be at risk, our families will be at risk, our country will be at risk. Every actively serving member of the armed forces, every military family, every veteran, every one of them should be burning up the phones to Congress and the White House until this garbage ends.
You should openly question the patriotism of anyone voting Democrat in 2012, and I’m betting like myself, everyone who has sacrificed for this country and seen good people give their lives so that hand-wringing liberals can continue to wreck this country aren’t going to stand for it.
Airborne Medic commented:
They are not trying to do anything with our votes. What they are trying to do is to extend early voting to everyone. Many working class citizens are not able to get to the polls on election day because they have to work. Some people work 2 jobs, take care of kids and by the time they get a chance the polls will be closed. It has nothing to do with restricting our vote. Read the brief! Our rights will not be affected!
CV1 commented:
Granted, they want the general public to have the same rights as the military. Sounds noble, but it’s crap!
Leave the voting rules as they are until after the election. Then revisit it. Obama and his followers are always trying cram things through in a rush. They would not be so eager to push this through so quickly if it did not benefit them in November.
tommy mc donnell commented:
#8…ok jeff what is it?
CV1 commented:
# 17…Oftentimes, the person who cries “fool” is the fool himself.
Airborne Medic commented:
I have read that everyone had the same early voting rights until the last year or so. Everyone had the opportunity to vote early in the 2009 election but the military only law was apparently just enacted. Yes it benefits democrats if everyone is allowed to vote early but it also benefits Republicans if it stays the same, that’s why both sides are fighting about it. I don’t know about you guys but I am tired of being a pawn in their political games. I am willing to fight and die for everyone’s vote to be counted (provided they are eligible of course).
ab01 commented:
The military gets 3 extra days. Problem is that it is difficult to scam the system if you don’t know how many fraudulent votes you need to win Sorry obama, you’ve screwed the military too many times in past elections. Payback’s a bitch.
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