Guam ignores MOVE Act; DOJ silent
Guam is not complying with the MOVE Act and sending ballots to military voters in time. DOJ reaction? Silence.
The Guam Election Commission (GEC) held another election prep meeting to discuss how to comply with the MOVE Act. How appropriate 35 days prior to the Election, well inside the required 45 days, Guam is still wondering what to do. KUAM reports that "with five weeks left until the Decision 2010 General Election, the Guam Election Commission is continuing preparations. Another meeting will be held this Wednesday to continue dialogue about what to do with complying with a federal law regarding overseas and military voting."
As the Guam Election Commission is still deciding how to comply with the MOVE Act, apparently someone at DOJ needs to pick up the phone and tell them that they are, in fact, not complying - and consider a remedy. It must be that DOJ is busy dealing with the half ballot that Maryland wants to send its troops to avoid the MOVE Act.
While Guam may not serve hundreds of thousands of military voters, servicemembers from Guam have served all over the world. Meet 14 of them here.
Guam is also key military hub that allows the U.S. to further forward deploy its air, land, and sea forces into Iraq and Afghanistan. Apparently, those forward deployed troops and sailors will have to wait until either the Guam Election Commission or DOJ recognize that each day of meetings and continued noncompliance will disenfranchises more eligible voters from exercising their right to vote.
Until them, the Keystone Cops Act rolls on at DOJ.




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