Posted on 10/11/2004 7:17:13 AM PDT by esryle
DENVER -- Some 6,000 prisoners and felons on parole are on the state's voter registration rolls, The Denver Post reported Sunday.
State law bars prisoners serving sentences or convicted felons who are on parole from voting.
The Post reported that Secretary of State Donetta Davidson plans to convene an emergency meeting this week of Colorado's 64 county clerks to stop prisoners and parolees from voting on Nov. 2. Some prisoners and parolees voted in the August primary.
"I had no idea we had that type of numbers," Davidson said.
"You have to wonder if they're malicious or inept in the secretary of state's office. Every ineligible elector that votes cancels the vote of an eligible elector," said Al Kowicz, executive director of Accurate Mail Election Election Results, an election watchdog group based in Boulder.
The Post said 40 percent of the 6,006 felons on voting lists are on parole or in community-supervision programs that would permit them to visit polling stations. Records through September showed 536 felons registered this year. Some were signed up during registration drives that have added tens of thousands of potential voters to the registration rolls since March.
One problem is that the state corrections department does not send a list of felons to the secretary of state's office.
"We can only act on the information provided us. This particular issue is a matter for corrections to address," said Bill Compton, state elections director.
"We send data sets to agencies that request the information," said Alison Morgan, spokeswoman for corrections.
BTTT!!!!!!
the cure is simple - have the police wait undercover for the felons to show up and then arrest them on the spot.
Here's a story from Denver, hoosiermama, about the mass registering of convicts onto the vote rolls there, if you hadnt run across it yet.
I think each state determines when a felon can or cannot vote?
No. Probably Absentee ballot votes...which they already filled out most likely.
To be fair to Ms. Davidson, the voter registration rolls are maintained and vetted at the county level. The felony conviction/parole numbers are, no doubt, carried at the state level. And there has probably never been a serious effort to cross-check the databases.
I think what this points out is the need to start from scratch: toss out all voter registrations, and require everybody to re-register. Not just in Colorado, but everywhere.
And, as part of the registration process, voters should be required to provide, and the counties to check, information necessary to prove that the registrant is in fact eligible to vote.
Duh!! This is typical government at work. If a boss/supervisor/manager in the private sector made a statement like this, he or she would likely be fired.
Unfortunately there are government stooges like this on both side of the aisle.
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Witness all the mayhem and destruction against Bush/Cheney campaign offices across the country in recent days. Doesn't sound like your typical "political activist" to me...
Thugs For Kerry (Felons welcome!)
PING
Is the Secretary of State in CO a Dumbocrat or a Republican?
Freepers hoosiermama and liz have a few threads where they started collecting voter fraud articles.
"Every ineligible elector that votes cancels the vote of an eligible elector..."
OK, this guy is officially as inept as the Secretary of State's office. (Of course, if you're serious about enforcing a dumb law like this, would it be most effective to jail a few of the Sec. of State workers who abbetted its violation?)
Nah, you guys think too sophisticated. The purpose of registering people who you know won't vote because they are dead, in a nursing home with no faculties, are in prison, are on parole, or are illegals, is precisely because they will not be voting and there are union members and operatives who will be voting for them. By the millions I might add.
I think felons should be able to vote again if they can prove "over time" that they can obey the law. Otherwise what incentive is there for them to even try to live clean.
I haven't put a whole lot of thought into this so don't blast me if I have missed something obvious. I know if we wait on the government to fix this voter fraud nothing will ever happen.
my question is , once this is discovered, what is done about it?
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