Suddenly, McCain cares about voters! Ignoring (at best) his own party's voter suppression efforts, the McCain campaign is irate because Fairfax county is rejecting some military ballots due to a legal technicality. Who can we thank for that technicality?
Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman said Thursday that he has had to reject some of the ballots because of a Virginia law passed in 2002. That law - then called Senate Bill 113, sponsored by then state Sen. Bill Bolling - requires that when an overseas citizen wants to request an absentee ballot and cast a vote with the same paperwork, it requires not only a witness signature but also the current address of the witness.The McCain campaign said there's not even a space for the witness to list an address. Suleman agreed; he said the federal document was changed in recent years and the space for the witness address was removed. But the Virginia law hasn't changed.
Now, we're talking about a negligible number of ballots here: only 260 of these types of ballots have been received so far in Fairfax, with only a percentage rejected. But every vote matters -- and having silly technicalities wipe out votes "stinks," to use Suleman's words.
Thank the Lt. Gov. for this round of "screw the voters"!
Bolling's already asked for the FFX votes to be counted.
This blog may need to do more fact checking if it ever want to become credible.