From today’s The Hill:
Democrats this week slammed Republicans for attempting to obstruct voting for military service members after some GOP lawmakers filed lawsuits targeting overseas voters.
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), an Army veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, sent a letter — along with five other Democrats — to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin raising concerns about six Republicans filing a lawsuit in Pennsylvania to restrict the ballots of overseas voters.
In a Monday statement, Ryan said “election-denying extremists are trying to disenfranchise our men and women in uniform.”
“It’s disgraceful and anti-democratic,” Ryan said. “These are quite literally troops who raised their right hands and swore an oath to protect and defend our Constitution — and now extremists are stripping them of their constitutional rights.
“This isn’t about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about doing right by those putting their lives on the line for our country, and they deserve to know immediately their right to vote will be protected,” he added.
The Pennsylvania lawsuit seeks to stop the counting of overseas ballots until identities of the voters are verified, citing concerns about state laws that do not require voter identification or eligibility. The Washington Post first reported the lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed last week by Pennsylvania GOP Reps. Guy Reschenthaler, Dan Meuser, Glenn Thompson, Lloyd Smucker, Mike Kelly, and Scott Perry. All six of the lawmakers did not vote to certify the 2020 election for President Biden in January 2021.
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