New Executive Order Requires Pentagon to Track Military Absentee Ballots

[rangerrebew]

New Executive Order Requires Pentagon to Track Military Absentee Ballots
 
8 Mar 2021
Military.com | By Patricia Kime

A new executive order signed by President Joe Biden and designed to expand voting rights requires the Pentagon to better track absentee and military ballots from overseas.

Biden's order, issued Sunday, comes as a voter rights and campaign finance bill passed the House last week in a 220-210 vote, with no support from Republicans. The legislation, H.R. 1, the "For The People Act," faces obstacles in the Senate, where Republicans must join Democrats for legislation to be approved.

Biden has urged the Senate to approve the legislation but used his authority as president to direct federal agencies to create strategies for promoting voter participation, including encouraging -- via the agencies' websites and social media accounts -- people to register to vote.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/08/new-executive-order-requires-pentagon-track-military-absentee-ballots.html

[rangerrebew]

First of all, the Army and Navy SAY they can't even tell you how many "domestic terrorists" they have booted and they are going to report on everyone who votes?  Secondly, are voters going to become the new "domestic terrorists?"  I can see no other viable reason the government wants such information.  Besides, I would have thought that whether you vote or not, it's no business of the government.

[PeteS in CA]

Does this EO require that the ballots be opened and examined to see how each soldier, sailor etc. voted? Or does it simply require diligence in making sure military personnel's ballots get back to their home states?

I take it to be the latter, and given how military ballots have been suppressed in the last couple of decades, that would be a good change.