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United States News Title: Illinois officials "caught lying" about military ballots An amazing revelation over at BigGovernment.com. They report Illinois has been “lying” about whether or not military ballots mailed on September 18 as required by Federal law. They lied to the DOJ. Obviously if they did lie, this is not a happy day for America’s servicemembers. But take special note of why the lie worked: because the Department of Justice deploys a Keystone Kops enforcement operation. You can actually read the extent of the Justice Department’s inquiry to Illinois here. It isn't much. After the Illinois board of elections tells the DOJ that the ballots mailed in time in all the counties, “Thanks very much for the update” represented the full measure of follow up or skepticism. It appears not a county was called. Instead, the DOJ did in 2010 what it did in 2008: it relied totally on the word of state election officials. It did nothing else to verify whether or not ballots really were mailed by the counties. We can now report they did not in at least THIRTY FIVE Illinois counties. Shameful. How does the saying go: fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…. The fact that DOJ deployed the exact same investigative method that got them burned in 2008 merits immediate action against the person responsible. Instead, they will deny there is anything wrong with an investigative methodology that over and over results in military voters being disenfranchised. They will say, what else can we do? They can do what the Military Voter Protection Project is doing. They are finding violations when the DOJ is not. The DOJ lawsuit against New Mexico was because MVPProject uncovered the failure to mail ballots, not the DOJ. And MVPP isn’t relying on $138,000 a year GS-15’s to do the work. They are relying in citizen volunteers. The attorney working on the Illinois matter should call the attorney who had to file the affidavit in Virginia in 2008 and ask for a Word copy of the document - all he needs to do is change a few names and dates. Because the same mess just happened again. I have learned this morning that a whirlwind is forming in the Congress against the Keystone Kops operation in the DOJ. Senators have had enough of amateur hour. They are about to clang the gong on this act. The saddest part is that the true amateurs are detecting failures to mail military ballots when the six figure professionals are screwing it up. One final note, the attorney who thanked Illinois very much for the update in the email is not to blame for this. Others imposed this crazed investigative method on him. It is the same method that led to a disaster in 2008. Only in government would a proven defective method be used twice. Its time to clean up the mess, and it seems that more than just John Cornyn are ready to do it. Yet another very very very bad day for James Cole.
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