Subject: FW: Military Votes Banned? CO Sec. of State Is Stealing Our Rights!
From: "Micah Snead & Richard Allen Smith" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:52:39 -0400 (EDT)

Dear Hunter 

Wanted to make sure you saw this. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is trying to prevent our troops from voting. We notified our members in Colorado yesterday, but we need your support as well. Will you sign our petition to Scott Gessler? He needs to know you won't stand for this. 

*Click here to sign our petition!* [ http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6676/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8356 ] 

Thank you, 

Richard Allen Smith
Afghanistan War Veteran
Vice Chairman, VoteVets.org

P.S. Can you forward this to your friends? We want everyone to know what Scott Gessler is trying to do to our troops. 

votevets.org [ http://www.votevets.org/ ] Dear VoteVets Supporter,

One of the most important rights we have as Americans is the right to go to the polls and cast our ballots in favor of the people we want to represent us in our democracy. For over two hundred years, brave American men and women have raised their right hand and placed themselves in harms way to defend this freedom. But in Colorado, that very right is being attacked, specifically for American troops.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler has ordered election officials not to send ballots to American troops serving overseas [ http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/reluctantly-clerk-says-ballots-not-in-the-mail/article_7f6e9dae-ebe3-11e0-b0c0-001cc4c03286.html ], in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. We are Colorado residents. We are also Veterans. We volunteered to serve our country and wore the American flag on our right shoulder in harms way. As Colorado Veterans, the idea that Scott Gessler would deliberately prevent our service members from exercising the very freedoms they fight for is offensive, un-American, and wrong.

But Scott Gessler's order is not just unpatriotic; it's also illegal. Gessler is in direct violation of the federal Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act, which requires clerks to mail ballots to all eligible voters in the military.

Will you *sign our petition* [ http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6676/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8356 ] to Scott Gessler? The Secretary of State needs to not only know that what he is doing is unpatriotic, but that as Colorado Veterans, we will not stand for his insulting behavior and attempts to disenfranchise men and women in uniform.

Scott Gessler clearly doesn't respect military service. It's up to us to show him why he is wrong. 

*Click here to sign our petition!* [ http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6676/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8356 ]

Micah Snead
Denver, Colorado
Iraq War Veteran 
Colorado State Captain, VoteVets.org                  

Richard Allen Smith 
Denver, Colorado
Afghanistan War Veteran
Vice Chairman, VoteVets.org 

P.S. Can you forward this to your friends in Colorado? We need Scott Gessler to know how many voices are outraged by his disrespect of American troops. 

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