Blue states deny soldiers votes

So Congress votes that states must mail off to soldiers their ballots to vote so that they receive them in a timely manner and are able to return the ballots in keeping with deadlines. Then blue states decide that they can't possibly meet the deadlines to mail out the ballots in time, even though they are violating the law. Obama's justice department has decided to grant waivers to five blue states who will, oddly, benefit politically if they do not have to count soldiers' votes. Read about it at Pajamas Media by former DOJ attorney J. Christian Adams:

Worse yet, these same Justice Department officials told multiple officials that once a MOVE waiver was granted, it might be permanent, carrying over to the 2012 presidential election, despite express statutory language to the contrary. Such staggeringly bad legal advice came from both political appointees as well as career attorneys in the Voting Section. So embarrassing was the position, that senior political DOJ appointees retreated from the position once Senator Cornyn heard about it.

The apologists for the waivers and lack of DOJ enforcement cite the fact this is a “transitional year,” a term that appears nowhere in the law. They say the waiver provisions contemplate a “late” primary. But every state with a late primary could have done something about it to comply with MOVE.

Florida did. Georgia did. Vermont did.

It was simply a question of legislative priorities, and states like New York, Massachusetts, and Colorado did nothing to fix the problem.