A far-left group wants to make it substantially more difficult for American troops serving overseas to vote in our elections.
The Center for American Progress released a memo on Monday called “Election Security in All 50 States,” which called for stricter standards to prevent cyber attacks on voting systems by foreign governments.
The most alarming proposal? A ban on U.S. service members stationed abroad from voting electronically.
Center for American Progress instead recommends that “all voted ballots be returned by mail or delivered in person.”
It’s not entirely clear how military personnel stationed overseas would deliver their ballot in-person from, say, Afghanistan. More likely, it would force them to rely on unreliable foreign systems that could easily miss voting deadlines.
It’s also worth noting that, among active duty military, Republicans outnumber Democrats by a 2-1 margin, possibly suggesting that the Center for American Progress has an ulterior motive.
In Colorado, which is one of the states that allows military stationed in foreign countries to cast votes electronically, Secretary of State Wayne Williams downplayed the Center for American Progress’s vote hack hysteria.
“We’re known as leaders in election security,” he explained, citing that Colorado had received the highest grade from CAP’s study.
“They don’t believe someone who works on a submarine should be allowed to vote,” he added. “We do.”
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