BREAKING NEWS:  Congratulations to the Military Voter Protection Project.  They have broken new legal ground in protecting military voters.  A Maryland Federal Court ruled today that it is a violation of a soldier’s constitutional rights to not receive his complete ballot on time.  The court ruled that the John Doe officer stationed in Iraq had standing to sue based on deprivations of their constitutional rights.

This is huge news which will affect the 2012 elections.

This is an enormously important decision.  One thing it means is that military members need not wait on the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. at the Justice Department to sue.  It may end the monopoly on DOJ’s oversight of military voting, which is a good thing for everyone in uniform.  It means that in 2012, during the Presidential election, we won’t have to wait for DOJ to act.  Individual soldiers and sailors may have recourse to the courts.  They can act immediately in court, like they are trained to do in combat zones.  It is an enormous victory for military voters.  It means that the Eric Holder military voting disaster  of 2010 might not repeat in 2012.

This also shows that people are more effective than their government.  DOJ filed no lawsuit in Maryland.  MVP did.  MVP  won a victory for military voters from every state.