The @JacksonvilleDailyNews in #NC has this oped saying that efforts to increase #militaryvoting among servicemembers is #FAILing. http://tinyurl.com/8r8rcx3
“Despite the @FVAP efforts to increase military voter participation this election year, the number of service members who requested absentee ballots has declined dramatically across the board compared to the 2008 elections. . . .
The number of absentee ballots being requested is shockingly low,” said @MVPProject, founder and executive director of @MVP, in a press release. “While we knew the number of absentee ballots requests would increase as we got closer to the election — and they have — the number being requested is still way too low and indicates that many military members will have their voices silenced on #ElectionDay.
The @MVP report indicates that @FVAP failed to create voter registration offices that would provide voting assistance to every #military member when they checked into a new station.”
@FVAP is relying heavily on @Twitter and @Facebook to cure the deficiencies in @FVAP implementation of the #MOVEAct, including the failure to establish voting offices on military installations, as reported by the #DOD #IG. #USMC #TCOT