Posted on 09/24/2012 10:16:34 AM PDT by John Semmens
State District Judge Tim Sulak issued an order to Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade to cease and desist in her offices efforts to remove deceased voters from the rolls.
In his ruling, Sulak said that the Secretary has failed to demonstrate sufficient grounds for excluding these voters. Just because a person is deceased does not mean that person has no interest in the elections outcome. Has a deceased parent no concern for the well-being of his children? Of course he does. To arbitrarily deny this interest is discriminatory and, therefore, illegal.
The Judge rejected the Secretarys argument that it is impossible to know how a deceased person would vote saying that friends and relatives acquainted with the views the person expressed while alive may serve as good proxies for casting votes on behalf of the deceased.
State officials sent notices to the last known addresses of 80,000 voters who the Social Security Administration (SSA) says had died. Those failing to reply with proof they are alive were to be stricken from the rolls.
However, Sulak discounted the SSA as an unreliable source. Every year this agency pays out billions of dollars on bogus claims. And thats not counting the billions legitimately paid to those whove disabled themselves through drug addiction. Using anything from this agency as a basis for any action is highly suspect.
In related news, a statistical analysis of Ohios voting rolls indicates that at least 20% of the registrations appear to be phony. In two counties the number of people registered to vote exceeds the voting age population. The national average is for 70% of the voting age population to be registered to vote. Nevertheless, US Attorney General Eric Holder insists that vote fraud is not a serious problem and warned the Ohio Secretary of State to refrain from taking any action that may be construed as an attempt to reduce voter turnout.
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OMG, John. You got me again. As my blood pressure and ire started to rise, I checked the author and found...
Your satire is too close to the truth, sad to say.
Not funny and stupid. Otherwise, keep these gems coming.
bump
please tell me this one isn’t based on real events.
please?
:P
That's how bad it has gotten any more.
Perfect satire!
am I reading this right?
“Just because a person is deceased does not mean that person has no interest in the elections outcome.”
This has to be a joke right?
by the way, that is a joke but you never know with how things are today.
LOL!
Almost had me.
This is John Semmons pulling jokes on us once again, except that he strikes too close to the truth sometimes for comfort! Wickedly clever.
LOL almost got me
This @$$ hole has made his decision, now let him enforce it.
Another stupid DemocRAT judge.
Wake up, Texans, vote this sludge out of office!
OMG! I pulled a Biden.
Andrade's rules were an effort to comply with a 2011 state law requiring her office to better maintain voter rolls by comparing names with Social Security Administration death records.
Lawyers for the four voters, including two from Travis County, argued that Andrade exceeded her authority to purge voter rolls by pursuing so-called weak matches targeting voters whose birth date and last four digits of their Social Security number match federal death records. Weak matches also included those whose complete Social Security number and birth date match death records, but whose names did not.
"Obviously, there are thousands upon thousands of these people who are clearly alive and well," said lawyer Buck Wood of Austin.
David Richards, another lawyer for the four voters, said he had no problem with purges involving what Andrade called "strong matches" when the name, birth date and Social Security numbers match.
"That is a reliable list. That makes sense. The weak' list was weak indeed (and) created a large number of false positives," Richards said. "The problem is confusion at a time when we don't get much voter turnout to begin with, and we don't need to complicate the matter."
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uhhhhh......only if it will make you feel better.
You are assuming that just because this was a SATIRE piece, that it isn't true.
Judge blocks part of Texas effort to purge dead from voter roll
:"AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Thursday temporarily blocked part of a state effort to remove dead people from the voter rolls after the purge led to thousands of people receiving letters asking them to prove they are alive."
Satire aside, that's the basic plot of the Masters of Horror series episode titled "Homecoming", wherein our fallen soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq rise to become zombies. They don't want to eat your brains, they just want to vote George W. Bush out of office in the next election. They can't die (again) until they're allowed to vote.
Can’t be disenfranchising the Deceased-American voting bloc.
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