Democrats Secret Plan to Disenfranchise The Military?
I want to blog this so I do have an ability to do an "I told you so" if this actually occurs...
A number of abstentee ballots from Pennsylvania have been sent to Military (and other) voters with Ralph Nader on them. However, the November 2nd ballot for Pennsylvania will NOT have Nader on it. This basically means the ballots are incorrect, so the Republicans are pushing to have accurate absentee ballots re-sent to all the military members.
A former Kerry advisor, who is now a Pennsylvania election observer says:
When overseas voters are weighed against that potential pool, the scales don't even come close.
Mark Aronchick
There's a big problem here. What this will do is give Kerry the ability to request ALL THOSE MILITARY BALLOTS BE THROWN OUT!!! With a simple claim that they should not be counted because
they did not vote using valid ballots, all 15,000 of those military votes will vanish from Pennsylvania's total. And because of the fact that 3 out of 4 troops on active military duty will likely vote for Bush, that's a total of over 11,000 votes for Bush gone! And less than 4,000 votes for Kerry...
If you do the math, then imagine it like Florida's close call in 2000, that alone would well push the scale over the line. It would be a net loss of over 7,000 votes for Bush...
We'll see what happens, but you can bet if Kerry tries to pull this move, there will be a lot of screaming from the Right. The Dems will deny the entire scheme, even though IT'S NOW FULLY DOCUMENTED 2 WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION EVEN TAKES PLACE!!!