Liberal Group tied to the Obamas and the Clintons Moves To Restrict Military Voting For Americans Overseas?
Now, this is rich, the Center for American Progress submitted a report calling for the voting restriction of American’s serving in our military overseas. The group is citing the prevention of ‘Russian election tampering’ as the primary focus for their outlandish request. Could this be another part of the liberal ‘long game’? More often than not, military members do not vote Democratic in Presidential elections, would this still be an issue if that weren’t true?
As Reported By Valerie Richardson with The Washington Post:
After years of accusing states of voter suppression, the Center for American Progress, citing election security, wants to make voting tougher for Americans serving overseas in the military.
The left-wing public policy group issued a report Monday, “Election Security in All 50 States,” that called for stricter standards to prevent cybermeddling in elections by foreign governments, including banning military stationed abroad from submitting ballots via email or fax.
One state that allows such vote casting is Colorado. The center called on the state to “prohibit voters stationed or living overseas from returning voted ballots electronically.”
“Regardless of the state’s secure ballot return system for electronically voted ballots, we recommend that all voted ballots be returned by mail or delivered in person,” said the 245-page report.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams defended the practice, saying the state has incorporated safeguards to protect the integrity of ballots cast by military personnel living overseas.
“They don’t believe someone who works on a submarine should be allowed to vote. We do,” the Republican said in a statement.
Conservatives were quick to blast the report’s recommendation as unworkable and politically motivated.
“Perhaps they think that Navy SEALs can swim ballots ashore, hand them off to Army paratroopers who can parachute into Colorado to drop off the ballots?” asked the conservative website Colorado Peak Politics.
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