{"id":2079,"date":"2010-07-23T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2010-07-23T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:13:02","slug":"disturbing_news_about_our_mili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Disturbing News About Our Military&#8217;s Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/waiving-the-militarys-star-spangled-rights\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;reported that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/department-of-justice\/\">Justice Department<\/a>&#8216;s Voting Section has encouraged states to waive the statute that requires states mail absentee ballots to military personnel at least 45 days before an election.&nbsp; This statute was put in place so that the military serving overseas would have a chance to get their absentee ballots in before deadlines to have their votes counted.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If this statute is waived, many of our military will not have their votes counted in elections because they cannot get them back to their voting districts in time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/john-cornyn\/\"><font color=\"#164a6e\">Sen. John Cornyn<\/font><\/a>&nbsp;has met with Defense Department officials in charge of protecting military voting rights.&nbsp; One of the problems here is that generally speaking the military votes Republican, and in a Democrat administration with Chicago roots, fair play may not be the name of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;reported that the Justice Department&#8216;s Voting Section has encouraged states to waive the statute that requires states mail absentee ballots to military personnel at least 45 days before an election.&nbsp; This statute was put in place so that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}