Keyes Calls Military Ballot Waiver a Disgrace

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                      Agatha Bodwell
Date:  September 8, 2010                            774-208-3480


KEYES CALLS MILITARY BALLOT WAIVER A DISGRACE
Senate Candidate Criticizes Murray for Lack of Leadership on Counting Military Ballots


Sandwich—Today Tom Keyes, Sandwich’s Delegate and Deputy Speaker to the Barnstable County Assembly and Republican candidate for State Senate in the Plymouth & Barnstable District, criticized the Department of Defense’s waiver for counting Massachusetts military ballots and Senator Therese Murray for failure to take corrective action. Keyes wants to move the primary date to accommodate our military service members.


“This is a national disgrace. Our military men and women are putting their lives on the line to defend our freedoms, but we deny them their right to vote,” said Keyes. “We have an obligation to fix the system so these brave people are not left out of the election process. Unfortunately, our State Senator, the Senate President, has done nothing. If they were some liberal special interest group corrective legislation would have already been passed.”


As the next State Senator, Keyes will file legislation to move the Primary date so that the Secretary of State has enough time to send ballots to military members overseas and they have sufficient time to send them back to be counted.


Keyes, 43, is in his second term on the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates. A two term Sandwich Selectman, he has also served on numerous boards and committees including: Water Quality Review Committee, Sandwich Economic Development Committee, Board of Selectmen Economics Liaison , Cemetery Commission, Assembly of Delegates Standing Committee on Economic Affairs, the 21st Century Taskforce to review the Cape Cod Commission and draft operational changes to the County Commissioners, President of the Cape Cod Selectmen and Councilors’ Association and Board of Directors, and member of the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s Selectmen and Councilors’ Association.


Keyes founded his private practice, Keyes Quality Systems in 1998, providing consulting and contract services in management, ethics and compliance. He and his wife, Melissa have two daughters, Madelynn, four, and Julia, eleven months.


For more information on Tom’s candidacy, voters can visit his website www.VoteKeyes.com


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