HumanEvents.com has the story:
In the voter fraud versus voter suppression debate, the biggest
suppression of the vote, and the most scandalous, has gone virtually
unnoticed. Deployed members of the American military have the most difficulty
getting absentee ballots and casting their vote on time than any other
group of Americans. According to the Military Voters Protection Project (MVPP), only 20
percent of the 2.5 million military voters were able to request and
return their absentee ballots on time in the 2008 election.
…According to testimony by Thomas Perez, assistant Attorney General for
civil rights at the Justice Department, one third of overseas troops who
wanted to vote in 2010 couldn’t.
And what is DOJ doing about it? Re-fighting the voter ID wars the Supreme Court has already weighed in on and trying to prevent verification checks for non-citizen voters.