Among Voters in New Jersey, G.O.P. Sees Dead People

NY Times ^ | September 16, 2005 | DAVID W. CHEN

[Pharmboy]

TRENTON, Sept. 15 - The joke has long been that dead people vote in Hudson County, New Jersey's legendary enclave of machine politics. But now the joke may be on New Jersey, according to a new analysis of voter records by the state's Republican Party.

Comparing information from county voter registration lists, Social Security death records and other public information, Republican officials announced on Thursday that 4,755 people who were listed as deceased appear to have voted in the 2004 general election. Another 4,397 people who were registered to vote in more than one county appeared to have voted twice, while 6,572 who were registered in New Jersey and in one of five other states selected for analysis voted in each state.

At a news conference at the State House, Tom Wilson, the state's party chairman, took pains to say that the analysis did not look at voters' party affiliation. He also said that the party was not accusing voters of committing fraud, suggesting instead that someone else may have exploited their names without their knowledge.

[Lancey Howard]

Ping me when one of these crooked Democrat scumbags actually does jail time.
In a real jail.

[longtermmemmory]

I think the only solution will be a single, uniform NATIONAL voter registration database.

This way you can't vote in all states via absentee.

[SampleMan]

Then, if governments could get their act together, a national database of drivers licenses and voter registration could be developed.

Concur. We're skinning the same cat, and I think that would work. However, a number vice a name will have to be used (which is no problem in your method) to ensure that John Smith gets to vote.