In Wisconsin, 26 municipalities missed the 45-day federal deadline to transmit absentee ballots to military personnel, and the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is suing the state in order to grant an extension for them to be returned.
All absentee ballots must be returned by Nov. 9, which is three days after the election. But the Romney campaign wants Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board, which oversees elections, to push that date back to Nov. 14.
According to the Huffington Post, the Romney campaign first raised its concerns on Oct. 1, but GAB spokesman Reid Magney said the problem was not as serious as the Romney campaign made it seem. Magney pointed out that of the 4,288 military and overseas Wisconsin voters who requested absentee ballots, only 44 were not sent their ballots on time.
However, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan spoke about the issue during his town hall meeting in Waukesha on Monday, arguing that "if a single soldier is denied his or her right to vote, that’s a shame. That’s not what we can stand for in this country."
State Rep. Evan Wynn (R-Whitewater) also weighed in on the issue.
"They're over there fighting for our rights," Wynn, a veteran, told FOX News. "(And for) our right to vote...and they shouldn't be denied theirs because somebody back here didn't get their ballots out in time."
Kevin Kennedy, director of the GAB told FOX News said that there were only 26 of 1,851 municipal clerks who did not get the ballots out in time. He added that "redundancies in the system" allowed all members of the military to receive their ballots in time so they could be counted.
►Today is the end of open voter registration for 11/6 election when no proof of residence needed ◄ http://tinyurl.com/8gv7nn9
That said, is it a smart move to sue a potential swing state?
He opposed the equal pay for equal work act (Lily Ledbetter Act) for women. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/16/barack-obama/obama-mitt-romney-refused-say-whether-he-supports-/ Romney favors the Blunt Amendment that would deny contraception coverage for women. http://bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/10/17/president-obama-tries-capitalize-women-issues-after-second-debate-with-mitt-romney/BYFJOuHtDdcaNeGIWVajcN/story.html Romney favors a “personhood” constitutional amendment that would define “life” as beginning at contraception, and could make abortion illegal. When asked to clarify his support, he answered, “Absolutely.” http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/democrats-target-romney-on-reproductive-rights/ He falsely said at the second debate that he sought "binders of women" profiles to find women to hire as governor, but, in reality, he was forced to use binders and pledge to use them. http://hosted2.ap.org/MANOR/4e06196a1f11442a96197ec8174afd24/Article_2012-10-17-Romney-Binders/id-8a8f6924b6e643c9875aa4a319f4e643 Obama took the opposite, pro-women stance on each of these positions. Romney would be COMPLETELY WRONG for women, and our nation!
Where is the NAACP fighting for these votes to count. They have been in the Racine Jail fighting for the prisoner's votes to be counted. Are the military members right to vote not as important as a prisoner's right to vote?
The last few elections have gone smoothly at the courthouse.
And btw... How do you feel about President Obama's incompetence regarding the deaths in Benghazi of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty? Either the President screwed up really bad or his administration did, and now they are trying to hide their incompetence!
Again - the "dumbed down" arguments of the extremists (on both sides) get in the way of facts, logic, and actual intelligent discussion of the issues. Too bad.
“When [Obama] came over to our little area” at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, “he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that you’re son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry.’” Woods says that shaking President Obama’s hands at his son’s memorial service was “like shaking hands with a dead fish.” “It just didn’t feel right,” he says of his encounter with the commander in chief. “And now that it’s coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening,” Woods says, he wants answers on what happened—and why there was no apparent effort to save his son’s life." Yes, Mr. Woods... As an American Citizen and a father you have the right to ask for answers as to why President Obama and his administration turned their backs on your son who is an American Hero!
http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/21/the-white-house-boys-club-president-obama-has-a-woman-problem/ And a reason why women SHOULD vote for Mitt Romney. The women who have worked for and with him know he respects their value! http://www.blogher.com/what-women-should-know-about-our-old-boss-mitt-romney