Posted on 11/05/2006 7:12:05 AM PST by FreeKeys
A Republican activist who did some simple computer research says he discovered an "open door" for fraud: more than 11,000 Palm Beach County voters who are also registered to vote in New York.
Bill Skinner, the secretary of the Republican Club of Central Palm Beach County, said he obtained public voter records from the county and from New York and hired a programmer to find voters in one database who have the same first name, last name and date of birth as voters in the other.
The search found 11,609 matches between Palm Beach County and the Empire State, Skinner said.
The dual registrants include 5,843 Democrats and 3,261 Republicans from New York. Skinner didn't break down party affiliations in Florida.
Being registered in more than one state isn't illegal, but casting more than one ballot in an election is a felony, officials from Florida and New York said.
Elections officials say it's common for a person to move to a new state and register to vote there without canceling his or her old voter registration. Neither Florida nor New York requires voters to tell elections officials when they have left the state.
Skinner agreed that many of the dual registrants probably did so innocently. But, he said, "it's an open door if they want to show up at both polls."
Skinner said his GOP club plans to check records after Tuesday's election to see whether any voters cast ballots in the county and in New York and present any evidence of double-voting to elections officials or prosecutors.
"Everybody's entitled to one vote, but not more than one vote," said Skinner, a retired pharmacist and attorney.
Florida's new statewide voter registration database is supposed to guard against a person moving within the state and keeping registrations in more than one county. But neither the state nor counties systematically check to see whether a voter is registered in other states.
"That would be pretty overwhelming," said Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson.
Anderson said he suspects that most of the 11,609 voters on Skinner's list are New Yorkers who moved to Florida without canceling their old voter registrations.
"I wouldn't think that 11,000 people would be double-voting," Anderson said. "
Florida law requires county elections supervisors to conduct a "list maintenance program" every two years to rid voter rolls of ineligible voters.
Toward that end, Anderson said his office regularly sends mail to voters that is supposed to be returned to the elections office if the addressee has moved. But that system wouldn't flag a voter who maintains more than one address.
New York has similar procedures for purging ineligible voters, said Lee Daghlian, a spokesman for the New York State Board of Elections.
Florida's voter registration form asks an applicant to list the address where he or she was last registered to vote. When voters list a New York address, the information is sent to New York and the voter is usually purged within 60 days, Daghlian said.
But many voters don't fill out that information, Daghlian said.
When they don't, he said, it can take four years to weed out voters who have moved out of state.
"The fact that there's that many (11,609) doesn't really surprise me because the flow from here to Florida is quite large," Daghlian said.
Anyone care to guess how much of this was going on by the year, uh, (cough, cough) 2000 ?
How many of these voters are dead?
Hell, this is NOT a new development;
it's been going on for years. That
was the real reason behind the repeated
Gore challenges and all that chad
research in 2000. The Dems KNEW they
had all those duplicated votes and just
couldn't buy the fact their usual procedure
did not pull in the victory, even after
"FINDING" thousands of "security" ballots
in a safe days after the election, not to
mention that cute trick of blocking those
thousands of overseas military ballots.
How dumb are we supposed to be? And if the
guy on the street knew it, the Honchos
in D.C. certainly knew it!
Scratch any leftist/liberal/socialist RAT, and you'll find an ethically challenged, corrupt, cheater. These people should have to pay for trying to game the system.
Upstate needs its own state.
Throw the Supervisor of Elections in jail--They're responsible for maintaining accurate voter rolls.
How many of these voters are still alive?
Why would someone omit that information unless they thought that NY registration would be useful someday?
I'm sorry but if they're not dead, I wish they were. This is a corrosive cancer that eats away at our beloved Republic. The leftist ends justify any means, for these socialist morons.
Actually, I moved to Arizona 16 months ago and I'm still getting voting stuff from California. You'd think when you tell DMV that you're registering your car in another state, that's when it would be taken off. How do they know, really. Does anyone know how the Board of Elections finds out people don't live in the State anymore???
"I'm sorry but if they're not dead, I wish they were."
Forgive me father, this was uncalled for especially on a Sunday.
Governor Bush, the please pick up the white phone that has been ringing for years.
When I moved to Minnesota and registered to vote here, the form had a place for me to put my former address. I assume that they notify that jurisdiction, but am not certain.
For all I know, I'm still registered to vote in California. Of course, I'll only be voting here in Minnesota, but it would be interesting for those who have changed states in the past couple of years to contact the registrar of voters in their previous location to see if their name is still on the rolls.
I suspect that, in many cases, it will be.
It doesn't surprise me very much that there are 11,000 names that turn up both in Florida and New York. Lots of New Yorkers retire to Florida.
How many of these voted in both places in the last election? That should be fairly easy to determine. I'm betting it was very, very few.
Taking people off the rolls of voters is probably a very low priority for the county clerks and voter registrars of this country. I'm guessing that just about everyone who has moved within the last two years is still registered in their old location, too, unless they specifically contacted that voting official.
Much ado about nothing, I'm thinking.
Even with such blatant manipulation of the system by the democrats (A.C.O.R.N, AFL-CIO Thugery, "The Cemetery Constituents" and the above double-voting schemes), somehow GOOD always triumphs over EVIL.
Thank you Lord.
Easy solution to the problem subtract 11,609 democrat votes in those counties/boughoghs from all democrat candidates since voting in two different locales is illegal; both votes are illegal since by being registered to vote in both they showed clear intention to vote in both. < / common sense
disgust > Yeah, like doing something that even suggests common sense will happen.
I am living in Southern California. My son and I registered to vote here. My husband didn't, so he voted absentee in Texas. We will be here at least one more year. We could have voted absentee in Texas - but we wanted to be able to vote AGAINST Feinstein! But we don't ever vote both places. People who do should be SHOT!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.