In his latest letter to DOD, Senator Cornyn slams the Pentagon on its failure to facilitate the express mail guarantee in the MOVE Act for overseas military voters. He says DOD is shirking overseas ballot obligations. Cornyn cites evidence that the DOD’s program for express mail overseas had a 1 in 10 failure rate in the previous elecion and there has been no indication of improvement of those failures. He also accuses the Pentagon attempts to place the responsibility on the service members to find and use the express mail sticker instead of military postal and DOD. Cornyn is justifiably upset considering the rate of disenfranchisement for the failure to return on time will exponentially increase in a Presidential election year. One must ask the question how long would private mail carriers survive with only a 9 out of 10 guarantee to deliver ballots on time.
FVAP fails to even mention this express mail service for ballots on their website for military members. Apparently, FVAP did send one email in early October but absolutely nothing else, either with television, newspaper, radio or social media on the express guarantee despite the days ticking down. Not a single tweet on Twitter. Not a single post on Facebook. It is almost like the service doesn’t exist, yet it does. The guaranteed express service of voted ballots is one of the most significant provisions of the MOVE Act. And with FVAP hiding the ball, how are service members supposed to even know of this much needed service.