Congressman Joe Wilson pens an editorial on how military voters deserve better. This is not the message that DoD wants to be hearing from a leading member of the Armed Services Committee, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
…the Pentagon has not implemented these requirements set forth in the
MOVE Act. Many of voting assistance offices were never created and our
brave men and women serving in uniform have not been given the access to
voting assistance that was promised to them. These failures have had a
tremendous impact on our troops’ ability to vote.
As chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military
Personnel, I am committed to taking an active role in getting to the
bottom of this inability to provide fairness to our military personnel,
the ones who dedicate their lives to protect our freedoms.
Next year, there may be a number of hearings with questions and explanations.