A 92 percent drop in absentee-ballot requests by military personnel in Virginia is raising concerns that the Pentagon is failing to carry out a federal voting law, the MOVE Act.
With only 1,746 military voters in Virginia requesting absentee ballots so far this year, out of 126,251 service members in the state, the Military Voter Protection Project says the system has broken down.
And it’s not just in the Old Dominion. Military Voter Protection Project Executive Director, Eric Eversole, reports significant declines in absentee-ballot requests by service members across the nation.
Compiling data from Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Alaska, Colorado and Nevada, Eversole’s organization found that military families have requested 55,510 absentee ballots so far this year. That’s a sharp decline from the 166,252 sought in those states in 2008.
As part of the MOVE Act, each overseas base was to set up a Voter Coordinator and a base secure online location to request an absentee ballot. This project has not been completed on-time for 2012.
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Us soldiers have no one to vote for
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