Posted on 04/19/2017 5:52:47 PM PDT by buckalfa
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Secretary of State Mac Warner is working with all 55 county clerks to clean up voter rolls in the Mountain State. The office has removed 47,490 names off the lists since Warner took office in mid-January.
“There are a lot of people who have moved, changed names, gotten married, deceased — there are a number of reasons why these files have extra names on there,” Warner explained on Tuesday’s MetroNews “Talkline.”
Of the total removed names, 1,170 were convicted felons who lost their right to vote upon conviction.
West Virginia had at least three counties that had more registered voters than they did people eligible to vote, Warner said.
In one county that Warner declined to identify, nearly 9,000 names were removed from the voter list. The number of voters in that county dropped from 22,000 to 13,000 from the time former Secretary of State Natalie Tennant was in office until now.
As of Tuesday, there were 1,233,702 registered voters in the state.
Warner said his campaign promise was to clean up the voter rolls before the next election.
“You’re going to have a higher voter turn out when you remove those names that are deceased, moved or so forth,” he said. “It’s going to restore confidence in the election.”
A seven-member Field Services Team is currently working with county clerks as well as with city clerks and recorders to identify names that should not be on their lists.
This is great and should be a model for all states.
Is there any effort to determine if ineligible and metaphysically-challenged people have been casting votes?
Just because they are on the voter rolls does not mean that name is casting a vote.
How many of those 47,000 voted for Hitlery in November? How many illegals in CA voted for Hitlery in November? How many in Nevada voted for Hitlery whose votes were fraud. And, the list goes on. So much for the Queen’s popular vote.
I doubt WV has the inclination to look back for possible prosecutions. I am 12 years removed from WV and still received campaign calls from their candidates this past election.
Dead people who were removed: Did they or did they not vote in the last election? Good luck correcting this stuff in a blue state. Purple? Guess who will fight the hardest?
Higher voter turnout? Well, there had better be.
Otherwise it will be too obvious that those nonexistent voters were turning out all along.
I ran for a county office in WV. I did a mass voting using the mailing labels purchased from the county clerk’s office. Out of the registered voters over ten percent of the mailings were returned because they were undeliverable. The county clerk passed on using the returned mailings to review the voters’ list. They said they’d change them when they got a change of address.
At least one person a few years ago found out he had already voted when he went to the polls!!!!!
We have electronic voting but we still must check in with a poll worker, who checks our names against their list, whereupon we show our ID and sign the list before being given a slip of paper to advance to the voting machines.
Fortunately all the poll workers know me, so I don’t even have to show my voter ID card. Of course, they probably know most of the people voting. One of the joys of living in a small community.
A guy showed up while I was there last time, who wasn't on the roll and they gave him a "provisional" ballot. He took it, filled it out in writing and then handed it back. It was put in a separate envelope and laid it aside in a separate box.
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