On Rob Schilling show – military voting and Virginia SBE Rodriguez

I was on the Rob Schilling show at WINA-AM  in Charlottesville yesterday.  The podcast is here.  It’s at the bottom of the hour though I can’t seem to find a scroll forward.  The discussion ends up being about Nancy Rodriguez at the bottom of the hour.  In particular, about Rodriguez altering the rules regarding residency in 2008 to open the flood gates for out of state college student voting.  It also covers how Nancy Rodriguez continued to aggressively defend a case brought on behalf of military voters.  The aggressive defense worked to the detriment of military voters.  She didn’t need to fight back so aggressively, but she did.  This lawsuit came after Virginia failed to mail military ballots in time to soldiers overseas.  After they were sued, Nancy fought back and defended the failure to mail ballots.   Nancy Rodriguez refused to settle the case on terms favorable to military voters and fought back in court well after the election. 

Out of state college students? No problem.  A Marine in Iraq?  Not so much.   The good news is that Rodrigues will be replaced in January 2011.  It is a shame she wasn’t replaced in January 2010.

2 thoughts on “On Rob Schilling show – military voting and Virginia SBE Rodriguez

  1. Michele Austin

    Mr. Adams,
    Obviously, it’s too late for this election but I wanted to know if there would be any possibility the (military only) votes could be cast by a spouse or parent via power of attorney thus insuring their votes are cast by a loved one with their wishes.

    Obviously, the left would then want to do this for dead people and illegals but if there was some “special provision” just for those defending our country overseas that would MAKE SURE their voice was heard?

    Please let me know.

    Sincerely,
    Michele Austin

    EDITOR NOTE: No possibility.

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