Posted on 10/20/2004 12:58:25 PM PDT by z3n
It has previously received media attention that Franklin country had this alarming issue, but I just heard a report on the radio that more Ohio counties have as many, or more registered voters as census the projected population. Geauga county was cited specifically in this report.
Could this posibly be attributed to some amazing new level of voter interest? I'm starting to become extremely skeptical!
Ask yourself one question: The last time you moved, did you bother to notify the registrar of voters that you no longer lived in that voting district? The overage is probably due to people who moved or died and whose names remain on the roles because no one notified the registrar.
I see Republican Complaining and hand wringing but no real action.
Once the Democrats vote 2 or 3 times and steal the election for Kerry, it will be too late to really do anything about it. How are you going to find investigate and reverse 50,000+ illegal voters. You going to have the Democratic Mayor and local Government officials helping you? The 50,000 Kerry Lawyers are there for the xpress purpose of hindering any attempt to root out voter fraud by the Democrats.
The Republican strategy is to wish and hope they win by a big enough margin to make voter fraud irrelevent but I think they totally underestimated the scale of the fraud.
The Dems are not plannning to add thousands of illegal votes they are planning on adding hundred of thousands of illegal votes.
The gutless RINOs are letting them do it, without even a fight.
"Gosh! 'GOP' and 'on top of' in the same sentence"; that's what I think.
I stand corrected. I only hope when I am dead, I still vote straight Republican.
I believe Sec of State Blackwell has filed an appeal
Like the democrat poll worker will actually check the signature on a registered-Democrat voter.
HA! If I ruled Ohio, b4, if I ruled Ohio....
In our county we have to have 1 Republican and 1 dem at each table for verification
This does not sound right. Some I bet are dead voters. Some probably don't even exist.
I see the same thing. I feel so helpless but what can I do? If this fraud progresses and we find Kerry in the White House come Jan 2005 I don't know what we can do. I'm praying it doesn't come down to that but what else can we do?
Excuse me for being blunt, but why the f*** not?
Record Missouri voter roll likely inflated
By David A. Lieb ~ The Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A record 4.2 million Missourians are registered to vote on Nov. 2 -- a figure so high that election officials acknowledge it likely is inflated by a large number of people who are registered more than once.
Statewide, there were fewer than 4.3 million voting-age residents, according to the most recent Census Bureau estimate. If Missouri's voter rolls were accurate, that would mean 98 percent of adults are registered to vote.
"We've wondered if there's anyone left in the state who is not registered," Betsy Byers, an election director for Secretary of State Matt Blunt, said Tuesday.
"It's inflated somewhat," she added, "but I don't know what to tell you as far as how much."
The inflated voter rolls could allow some people to illegally vote twice, Byers acknowledged. Yet a more likely outcome, she said, is that many of the duplicative registrants will vote only once or not at all -- and Missouri's voter turnout will appear lower than reality.
Missouri has no way of automatically updating its central voter registration database when a resident moves to another city, county or state. And under federal law, it can take more than four years to remove a voter whose address cannot be verified.
The result is that in 36 of Missouri's 114 counties, and in the city of St. Louis, more voters are registered for the November elections than there were residents age 18 and older in the July 2003 Census Bureau estimate, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
At the top of that list is St. Louis -- a problem spot in the 2000 elections -- which has an estimated 246,320 voting-age residents yet has 281,316 registered voters. The city reports 65,993 of those voters as inactive, meaning their addresses haven't been verified and they haven't voted recently. Yet by virtue of remaining on the rolls, they still could vote in the November elections.
Byers said voter rolls may also be inflated in other counties because, like St. Louis, they have not followed procedures for removing people whose addresses cannot be verified.
Under federal law, local election authorities are supposed to periodically mail address verification cards to registered voters. If they are returned as undeliverable, then election officials are to mail a second notification that can be forwarded to a new address. If election officials still don't hear from the voters -- and they don't vote in the next two general elections -- then those voters can be removed from the rolls.
In St. Louis, election officials in past years didn't properly notify people that they could be dropped from the rolls if they didn't verify their addresses. As a result, the city's voter rolls still have people whose addresses haven't been verified and who haven't voted since 1992, said Jim O'Toole, the city's Democratic election director.
O'Toole said he expects about 40,000 people to be dropped from the city's voter rolls after the November election because two general elections will have passed since properly worded notifications were mailed.
Byers estimated that "a couple hundred thousand people" statewide could be removed from voter rolls after the November election for the same reason.
Statewide, 561,969 voters are classified as inactive.
In the November 2000 elections, some potential voters were turned away in St. Louis because their names were on inactive lists and couldn't quickly be verified. Because of long lines, a judge ordered the city's polls to stay open past closing time but was later reversed by an appellate court.
This year's statewide registration of 4,206,423 voters is up 9 percent from the 2000 elections. Because of a dip in voter rolls as names were removed, this year's total is up 14 percent from November 2002 and up 20 percent from the Aug. 3 party primaries.
------
documentation, please.
I cannot in good faith redistribute information without some way of fact-checking.
(nevertheless - yo! rdb3! yet more...)
Where I live you must show a picture ID with your name on it and your voter's registration card. But I guess if deception is in your heart you could get around that too.
Not in the Cleveland area. No ID required.
Hey, BE QUIET!!!! Many of these registered voters were heroes in the Civil War. Don't make fun of them!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.