Fox now promoting GOP activist Adams' false claim DOJ is "ignoring" military voting law
After trumpeting GOP activist J. Christian Adams' fabricated New Black Panthers Party story, Fox News is now reporting his false claim the Department of Justice is "ignoring" a military voting law by allegedly "encourag[ing]" states to use waivers to bypass the law. In fact, the waiver process is built into the law, and Adams offered no specific evidence to support his claim that DOJ is "encourag[ing]" states to use those waivers.Abrams is Fox's favorite kind of nut job. he has visions in his pointed head and Fox "reports" those kool-aid addled visions as news. Megyn Kelly and Gary Sinise are Idioits
....Waiver process actually built into military voting law
Claim that DOJ is "ignoring" law by "encourag[ing]" waiver use is nonsensical. The MOVE Act requires states to send absentee ballots to overseas military troops 45 days before an election, but the legislation specifically allows states can apply for a waiver if it can prove an "undue hardship" in enforcing it, as well as outline a "comprehensive plan" by which military and overseas voters will receive ballots in time for them to be counted in the election. From a National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) summary of the MOVE Act:
....No direct evidence offered that DOJ "encouraged" waivers
Claims by Eversole, Adams lack evidence. FoxNews.com based its article on the accusations of J. Christian Adams and Eric Eversole, former DOJ attorneys who are Republican activists. Eversole asserted that the Justice Department "appears to be spending more time finding ways to avoid the MOVE Act rather than finding ways to ensure that military voters will have their votes counted." Adams claimed that "I do know that they have adopted positions or attempted to adopt positions to waivers that prove they aren't interested in aggressively enforcing the law." FoxNews.com did not indicate whether Adams or Eversole offered any specific evidence to back up these assertions.
Meeting excerpts offer no evidence of "encourag[ing]" waivers. FoxNews.com also highlighted a letter by Sen. John Cornyn expressing "serious concern" about "recent reports" regarding enforcement of the act, and went on to quote Cornyn saying that "according to recent information, the Department of Justice has expressed reluctance to protect the civil rights of military voters under the new law." The only evidence offered to support the claim is the "minutes from the 2010 winter meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), during which Rebecca Wertz, deputy chief of the DOJ's voting section, told state election officials that the legislative language regarding waivers is not completely clear." According to the minutes, FoxNews.com reported, Wertz said that "the DOJ is working to find effective ways to disseminate any information guidance that can help states with different questions about MOVE interpretation. She invited questions and dialogue from states, and said that litigation is always the last resort." The excerpts provided by FoxNews.com offered no evidence that DOJ is "ignoring" the law or "encourag[ing]" waivers.
Accuser Adams is GOP activist who pushed phony New Black Panthers story
Actor Gary Sinise visited America Live earlier today, ostensibly to discuss his work helping wounded soldiers. But Megyn Kelly, who is supposed to host one of Fox News’ objective programs, blatantly tried to push him into criticizing the Obama administration over its handling of a military absentee ballot law, a subject Sinise obviously knew nothing about.It's nice that Sinise is supposedly doing things to help the troops, but why is he part of the right-wing fake patriots club at Fox where no bizarre anti-Democrat bashing is off the table. Kelly and Sinise are both old enough to know that being a good citizen means acting like a responsible adult.
