A Win on Veteran's Voting Rights

Hat tip to Rock the Vote:

Over the course of this summer, Rock the Vote activists wrote thousands of emails to their Congressmen and women, asking them to co-sponsor the Veterans Voting Support Act and overturn the ban on voter registration drives.

Yesterday, the Dept. of Veterans Affairs overturned the ban:

Veterans officials said that they would welcome state and local election officials and nonpartisan groups to hospitals and outpatient clinics to help register voters but that such assistance needed to be coordinated by those facilities in order to avoid disruptions to patient care.

Over 1,049,398 people aged 18-29 have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Young veterans are a crucial part of the young voter movement. We've got one month left to register voters. Let's make sure we reach the young veterans that are recovering in government facilities.

Great, great news.