I am from Maine and have been a poll watcher 2 different elections. In 2019 I had access to the list of registered voters in my town - at least 1.5% were fraudulent people who were dead or not living in the town for years. (That observation was from just a quick look at the Republican voter list.)
1. My son has voted elsewhere (other state) for 14 years but his name is still on the rolls.
2. We have had, at times, more people on the voter rolls than voting age people in the state.
3. It used to be I could take a thumb drive into my town office and get a complete list of voters in the town. Now, with democrats in charge of all 3 political positions (senate, house and governor) for 6 plus years we no longer have that access.
To remove a name from the voter rolls I have been told I need to present a death certificate, or they need a certified letter from the person’s new voting precinct of the change. (Even if they get the CL they can still ignore it if they want.)
Supporting Judicial Watch has been one place where truth and honesty in elections has had some positive impact. 800,000 names off the rolls in Oregon in the recent months has given me some hope. If the state will not clean up the rolls maybe the court can order it, or some way Federal Elections can be cleaned up?
Would like to hear the argument disallowing the opening of voter rolls. One can and is being made. Privacy being one of them. And who could possibly determine the death of a voter except family and government? The ability to cross reference rolls is certainly the responsibility of honest government.
“at least 1.5% were fraudulent people”
That is actually a really low percentage. For example, here in NH we must audit the checklist(voter rolls)at least once every ten years according to state law. However, a couple retired accountants audited the voter rolls of the most affluent Nashua suburb. They found they were 30% off. The discrepancy was primarily due just to people dying and/or moving out of town. It had not been done in almost ten years. This is a town with a population of less than 9K people.
They spoke at my GOP town meeting and were pushing to get one of the State Reps to introduce a bill that would change the requirement to an audit every other year. However, here in NH we do require to show ID to vote. Typically in the form of a NH drivers license Real ID. They scan my license to be handed a ballot. Then they cross me off the list. Then when I feed the paper ballot into the tabulation machine they again check me off the list that I voted. I am in a very small town of 2600 people. Less than half that are registered to vote.