Priorities? Obama's Dept. of Injustice suppresses Military Vote while advocating Felon's Right to Vote

Priorities? Obama's Dept. of Injustice suppresses Military Vote while advocating Felon's Right to Vote Scotty Starnes | July 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM | Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Eric Holder-led DOJ, felon voting rights, military voting rights, Obama, President Obama, Sen. John Cornyn | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-22s

Only in Obamaland can we find the Department of Injustice suppressing our U.S. solider's right to vote while advocating Felons to vote. Do we need more proof that the Eric Holder-led Dept. of Injustice is corrupt and filled with bias?

The Washington Times: Obama Justice Department outrages never cease. The politically charged gang led by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is more interested in helping felons vote than in helping the military to vote. Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, has put a legislative hold on the already troubled nomination of James M. Cole to be deputy attorney general until the attorney general ensures full protection for voting rights of our military (and associated civilian personnel) stationed abroad. The senator is right to raise a ruckus.

Mr. Cornyn co-authored a 2009 law mandating that states mail absentee ballots to military voters at least 45 days before the election. Yet, as former Justice Department lawyer Eric Eversole first reported in The Washington Times last week, the department seems to be encouraging states to apply for waivers so they won't have to follow that law. More than 17,000 Americans serving overseas were denied the vote in 2008 - but, presumably because military personnel are thought to lean conservative, the liberal Obama administration is in no hurry to correct the situation.

The Justice Department is so unenthusiastic about military voting that its website still lists the old requirement for a shorter 30-day military voting window, rather than the current law mandating 45 days. On the other hand, the Justice Department has no legislative mandate whatsoever to involve itself with helping felons to vote, but its website devotes a large section - 2,314 words - to advising felons how to regain voting privileges.

As confirmed by The Washington Times last week, Justice Department official Rebecca Wertz told a Feb. 1 conference of the National Association of Secretaries of State that the new law's requirements are somehow open to interpretation. On July 28, an attendee at that conference - heretofore uninterviewed - told The Washington Times that Ms. Wertz's message was "totally undermining" the law. The earlier reports actually underplayed the effect of Ms. Wertz's comments. "It was even more pronounced at the meeting," said the source. "She undermined [the law] right in front of everybody. When I heard what she was saying, I thought: 'You've got to be kidding!' ... It was a clear reversal of roles for Justice to no longer be enforcing the law."

That pretty much sums up the Dept. of Injustice. They would rather push voting rights for felons than standing up for our military's voting rights. Who would you pick? A Felon or a U.S. Soldier?

The DOJ is pro-criminal. Need more proof?

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