Posted on 07/30/2015 8:52:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Being dead may not necessarily disqualify you from voting this year in Mississippi. That’s because some voter rolls in the Magnolia State contain more people registered to vote than people who are alive.
The dismal state of voter rolls in many Mississippi counties not only facilitates voter fraud, it violates federal law. Take Clarke County, for example: according the United States Census, in March 2015 Clarke County had 12,646 registered voters — despite having a voting-age population of only 12,549.
That’s a registration rate of over 100 percent. That’s not only implausible, it’s impossible.
On Monday, the Public Interest Legal Foundation sued [1] the Clarke County Election Commission in federal court for violating its legal duty to keep its voter rolls current and accurate. The lawsuit should come as no surprise to the commission, which received written notice more than a year ago from the plaintiff — the American Civil Rights Union — that its voter rolls had become corrupted, but seemingly did nothing to correct the problem.
The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) — commonly referred to as the “Motor Voter” law — requires each county to make a “reasonable effort” to remove the names of ineligible voters from the voter rolls when they either die or relocate to another voting jurisdiction. Although the law does not describe what constitutes a “reasonable effort,” having more than 100 percent of living citizens registered to vote certainly isn’t reasonable.
Mississippi is not the only offender.
In 2012, Colorado — an expected swing state — had over twenty counties with more registered voters than people alive. Another nine Colorado counties had registration rates in the high nineties. Corrupted voter rolls are especially concerning in Colorado, because it conducts all elections by mail. A ballot is automatically mailed to every registered voter in advance of Election Day. It doesn’t matter if the voter is dead. As long as the voter remains on the voter rolls, he will receive a ballot.
Exacerbating the problem is a provision of Colorado law that allows so-called “ballot collectors” to go door-to-door and collect up to ten ballots.
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that such a system is a magnet for fraudsters. There is little stopping collectors from tracking down the ballots of people known to have died or moved.
Elections in Oregon and Washington are also conducted entirely by mail, and nineteen other states allow certain elections to be held by mail. As more states flirt with the idea, it is imperative that the voter roll cleanup obligations of the NVRA are enforced vigorously.
They aren’t. In fact, they are literally not enforced at all.
Since coming into office in 2009, Obama’s Department of Justice has not filed a single case to force voter roll cleanup.
In fact, the president and his allies have actually used the NVRA to sue [2] anyone that tries to keep its elections honest by removing ineligible voters from its rolls [3].
Luckily, the NVRA allows private citizen groups to file lawsuits to keep the voters rolls clean. The case filed in Clarke County is just the first in the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s efforts to counter the Obama Administration’s dereliction of its duty and to protect the votes of American citizens in the 2016 election.
Noel Johnson is an attorney at Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit law firm dedicated to protecting and restoring election integrity.
The entire states’ votes should be removed en bloc.
But, the Leftists have called us LIARS! if we mention vote fraud.
Certain FReepers have screamed if you call it vote fraud.
We must all be racist.
This is a simple fix....tax the dead voters. Once you establish the fact that ‘dead Joe’ voted two weeks ago in the election and he’s been dead for three years...have a state-tax hit ‘dead Joe’ and his estate....in the range of $20,000. If the wife or his kids get all disturbed....tough luck, they should have ensured a copy of his death certificate got sent to the county office. If they can prove that the county office got the certificate...fine, tax that county $20,000 toward a state account. Make someone pay.
I do agree everyone ought to register every two years at the county clerk’s office and provide some form of identification. It should be routine and a simple 30-second form to fill out and have stamped by the clerk.
...could that be why the ‘illegal immigrants’ are being allowed to vote....we have caught onto the ‘dead files’????
They've eliminated vote fraud by making it impossible to prove it happened.
Ping.
There’s no such thing as vote fraud
“They’ve eliminated vote fraud by making it impossible to prove it happened. “
WINNER
Because racism.
No civil rights violation going on here. Nobody has the right to NOT have their vote fraudulently nullified.
The article needs to call out NAMES. Not a faceless commission.
A red County, Romney 61%, B Hussein 37.
Awkward.
“12,646 registered voters — despite having a voting-age population of only 12,549”
The latter being an estimate, by necessity.
Time to require the States to purge ALL voters from the voting rolls the 1st of January following a presidential election.
Clarke County, MS demographics might help explain why this is an issue:
“The racial makeup of the county was 64.49% White, 34.81% Black or African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.17% from other races, and 0.30% from two or more races. 0.67% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.”
They are also older, married and rural.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_County,_Mississippi
Now, I think it SHOULD be pursued, but I don’t think that’s why the PILF are going after them.
obama did not win legally.
Gorge Soros bought the voting machines plus the usual corrupt democrat practice of the dead voting.
Mississippi living “the dream” ping
Purge the rolls every 12 yrs. and make ‘em re-register.
Boy, THAT was hard /s
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