http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/28/doj-stalling-on-protecting-voting-rights-of-military/?print=1
Adams notes that the DoJ website has an entire section for felons looking to recover their voting rights, but nothing at all on MOVE. Their information on military voting pre-dates MOVE and is now inaccurate, Fox News reports, and the DoJ doesn’t appear to consider fixing that a priority.
Several states have either applied for waivers or have indicated that they will, including Washington, Hawaii, New York, Delaware, Maryland, and Alaska. It would be interesting to see why these states (almost all blue states) feel the need to avoid complying with MOVE, and whether they actually qualify for the exemption. It should be a non-partisan notion that every effort to count ballots from military members overseas should be made, which is exactly what MOVE intended. If there’s something wrong with the law, the DoJ should have gone back to Congress rather than start advising states how to avoid compliance.
Congress needs to add this to their list of oversight items that will have to wait for a Congress that bothers to conduct oversight at all.
