Dec 11 2009
State Certification Has Election Officials Up Against a Wall
I’ve written a couple times about the MOVE Act, a recently passed federal law that mandates among other items that election officials mail ballots to military and overseas voters at least 45 days in advance of the election. For Illinois voters, that means that ballots are to be mailed by Saturday December 19th. We just received notification from the State Board of Elections that they would be meeting at 9:30am on Thursday, December 17th to decide on more objections. There are still five objections left to be decided that affect Champaign County voters. Presumably, this will be the last round of State action, but further court action is certainly possible as well.
We’ve basically have a day to create, proof, and get the ballots out in time to meet the new federal standard. While the new law doesn’t apply to this particular election, it does highlight the practical difficulties that election officials will face in upcoming elections.
[...] written about the problems of ballot certification as it relates to getting ballots to military and overseas voters. Well today we mailed the last [...]
Sounds like a governmental agency is more disposed to deny people’s rights than doing what is right.