DEMOCRAT SUPPRESSING MILITARY VOTES
That rotten sleaze-ball Ed Rendell is working OVERTIME to SUPPRESS MILITARY VOTES!
From the PA GOP:
“Rendell and PA Democrats More Interested In Helping Prisoners Vote Than
Our Military Men and Women, Santorum and Specter fight to allow extension
for Servicemen to have their vote counted.
Ignoring requests for weeks to help families who have loved ones serving
in the military overseas who may be unable to vote in Tuesday`s general
election, Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday offered a half-hearted deal to two
military parents who testified that their son`s ballots were sent late.
The deal will allow the absentee votes coming back from servicemen and
women to be counted up to 8 days after the election. The two parents had
come to the Republican State Committee with their problem after trying to
address the problem with Rendell himself. State Committee offered free
legal service to the two parents, who in turn filed suit earlier this week
against Rendell and asked for a 15 day extension. The two were forced to
agree to Rendell`s “final best offer” while admitting that the time would
probably not be enough for their own son`s votes to count but felt that it
was the best they could get.
Senator Rick Santorum and other Republican lawmakers have been calling on
Rendell over the past two weeks to join them on behalf of soldiers
fighting around the world in extending the deadline in which ballots could
be returned from overseas.
After hearing of reports from parents and soldiers that their sons and
daughters had not yet received their absentee ballots, Santorum and others
called upon Rendell to join the US Department of Justice, who had sued the
state over this matter, and agree to an extension of the deadline.
Unfortunately, Governor Rendell, who fought ardently against allowing
military votes to be counted in the Florida recount in 2000, put
partisanship over principle and fought against extending the deadline here
in Pennsylvania for the 2004 General Election. That position directly
contradicts Gov. Rendell`s actions during the Primary Election, when he
supported such an extension.
Rendell insisted that no credible evidence existed that military men and
women would not have their vote counted. Rendell maintained publicly that
all counties met their obligation to voters at the same time his legal
team, led by Mark Aronchik, admitted in court that they knew of ballots
that were sent late. (Aronchik is a well known Democrat attorney and big
money donor of the Kerry Campaign and is the infamous “Butterfly Ballot”
lawyer of Florida 2000 fame.)”
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