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Steven Rosenfeld reports for AlterNet, "For at least four years, since the 2004 presidential election, when a veteran, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was the Democratic Party nominee, the Department of Veterans Affairs has blocked efforts to help US soldiers register to vote at its facilities in all 50 states."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031808L.shtml



Veterans Department Creates Roadblocks to Voter Registration for Injured Vets

Steven Rosenfeld reports for AlterNet, "On the same day the Pentagon's commander in Iraq told the Senate that new troop withdrawals could not considered for months, Secretary of Veterans Affairs James B. Peake told two Democratic senators that his department will not help injured veterans at VA facilities to register to vote before the 2008 election."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041008O.shtml



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