The Romney campaign sent a letter to Wisconsin election officials Monday asking local voting districts that did not send military absentee ballots overseas by the Sept. 22 deadline to do so immediately.
The letter said at least 30 Wisconsin municipalities did not send ballots by the Sept. 22 deadline, which is 45 days before the election. According to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voter Act, all military personnel must receive their ballots 45 days before the election, and must return them by Nov. 9 for their vote to count.
Anthony Principi, National Chair of Veterans and Military Families for Romney Coalition, also requested in the letter to Government Accountability Board Chairman David G. Deininger that officials extend the original Nov. 9 deadline for receiving absentee ballots. The extension would apply to ballots still not sent out to overseas military personnel.
Principi said in the letter Deininger should immediately send the ballots to military voters, extend the deadline that election officials can receive the completed ballots and notify the recipients of the ballots of the new extended deadline.
Additionally, Principi said he is disappointed with the GAB’s “[in]attention to the voting rights of men and women in uniform,” and urged election officials “to take immediate action to correct recent violations of military voting rights.”
