Six Republican Senators have demanded an explanation from SecDef Panetta regarding the Pentagon's failure to create voter assistance centers in every military base in a combat zone. Congressional staff report that most bases have either an inadequately staffed center or no center at all. This is contrary to a 2009 law requiring the military to provide assistance in getting soldiers a chance to vote.
From the Washington Guardian:
These stinking liars can't get their own stories straight.
From the Washington Guardian:
With another election lurking around the corner, the Pentagon is getting a bad review for its efforts to comply with a new law designed to make it easier for overseas military personnel to cast their ballots.I call bullshit. I watched a report on Fox News this evening and a mannish appearing Pentagon spokeswoman stated that the reason for the low compliance was that the inspector general staff used old addresses and phone numbers.
The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act was passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama and was supposed to make it easier for service people deployed overseas and U.S. citizens living abroad to cast ballots back in their home states.But the Pentagon’s inspector general, the military’s internal watchdog, reported Tuesday it got a disappointing result when it tried to locate such voting assistance offices on each installation earlier this year.
“Results were clear. Our attempts to contact IVAOs failed about 50 percent of the time,” the inspector general reported. “We concluded the Services had not established all the IVAOs as intended by the MOVE Act because, among other issues, the funding was not available.”
These stinking liars can't get their own stories straight.