The Virginia-Pilot opines:  Congress passed a law in 2009 designed to make voter registration easier
for the nation’s service members. The Pentagon defied that law, and the
results are obvious. So is the military’s decision to abandon its
obligation to protect the rights of its soldiers, sailors, airmen and
Marines.

Of course, there are the apologists at the Overseas Vote Foundation (@https://twitter.com/overseasvote) who are looking for a different word than the extremist word “failure.” 

overseas Vote
‏@overseasvote

VA-Pilot slams @FVAP on MOVE Act. “Failure” is extreme. But yes, MOVE needs balance of online & in-person outreach http://ow.ly/dzuNL

Failure must be too harsh a term for the organization that purports to represent overseas citizens.  How about disappointment, fiasco, disaster, miscarriage, breakdown, malfunction, or ruin?  Pick one.