Breaking News: New York still won’t comply with military voter protections by 2012

You can’t make this stuff up.  New York has asked the Department of Defense for a waiver from the provisions of federal law protection military voters – for the 2012 election.  The cover letter is here from Robert Brehm, the elections director and the waiver application is here.

The MOVE Act, the law at issue, passed in October 2009.  Two years later, New York still isn’t protecting military voters.