Bush’s Pentagon Blocks Overseas Voter Registration
Reuters reports: “Some Americans overseas are being denied access to a Pentagon-run Web site intended to make it easier for them to vote by absentee ballot due to security measures to thwart hackers, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.”
Expatica notes: “Customers of internet service providers (ISPs) in at least 25 countries — including Wanadoo in France and Telefonica in Spain — have been denied access to the site of the Federal Voting Assistance Program (www.fvap.gov), the International Herald Tribune reported.”
The Expatica article also points locked out voters to a non-Pentagon site where their absentee ballot applications will be handled:
Those who cannot access the Pentagon site can register to vote online at www.overseasvote2004.com, which claims to complete the process in under five minutes.
Until I hear differently, I’m blaming it all on Karl Rove and the Republican dirty tricksters. Things haven’t changed all that much from the Watergate era.
(Thanks to Niek for drawing my attention to this.)
