Judge Blocks Purge of Dead Voters

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 22 Sep 2012 | John Semmens

[skinkinthegrass]

OH! BOY! ..you had me goin' there...
then i saw the source. :-D

[afraidfortherepublic]

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.

[DManA]

Not funny and stupid. Otherwise, keep these gems coming.

[GeronL]

bump

please tell me this one isn’t based on real events.

please?

:P

[EGPWS]

I actually took this as a real case of concern when reading the first sentence.

That's how bad it has gotten any more.

Perfect satire!

[skinkinthegrass]

LOL!double the :p

[manc]

am I reading this right?

“Just because a person is deceased does not mean that person has no interest in the election’s outcome.”

This has to be a joke right?

[manc]

by the way, that is a joke but you never know with how things are today.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

Almost had me.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Read the source: Semi News; Semi satire

This is John Semmons pulling jokes on us once again, except that he strikes too close to the truth sometimes for comfort! Wickedly clever.

[markman46]

LOL almost got me

[GoldenPup]

State District Judge Tim Sulak issued an order to Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade to cease and desist in her office’s efforts to remove deceased voters from the rolls

This @$$ hole has made his decision, now let him enforce it.

[IbJensen]

Another stupid DemocRAT judge.

Wake up, Texans, vote this sludge out of office!

[IbJensen]

OMG! I pulled a Biden.

[deport]

LOL.............. But the sad thing is that this process is now in the court system and hopefully a methodology will be agreed to in the effort to clean up the voter roles in Texas......

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Judge orders Texas to halt purge of suspected dead voters

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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[UCANSEE2]

please tell me this one isn’t based on real events.

uhhhhh......only if it will make you feel better.

[UCANSEE2]

OMG! I pulled a Biden.

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."

[Alex Murphy]

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 election’s outcome.

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.

[DuncanWaring]

Can’t be disenfranchising the Deceased-American voting bloc.