Posted on 07/18/2006 1:51:40 PM PDT by oxcart
DETROIT (AP) — The city clerk plans to purge the names of nearly 55,000 dead people and those who no longer live in the city from voting rolls as part of an effort to ensure integrity in elections.
Clerk Janice Winfrey bought lists of deaths from the state and city health department. Then she moved to eliminate the names of people who hadn't cast a ballot since before the 2002 election and who had been mailed voter card registration renewal forms that were returned as undeliverable.
Already the names of about 33,000 deceased voters have been removed, The Detroit News reported Tuesday. The rest can be removed after the August primary. Winfrey estimates another 40,000 names can be removed under a similar process in 2008.
Winfrey was elected in November. She unseated Jackie L. Currie, who had held the post since 1994 and was embroiled in a federal probe of her handling of absentee ballots.
Last year, the city had 637,000 registered voters, a figure critics say had to be wrong since according to census figures, Detroit only had 630,000 people 18 or older who were eligible to vote.
In February, the newspaper published a review of ballots cast in the November election that showed many were cast under the names of people who have died, were serving time in prison or did not live in the city.
Orleans Parish, La. just got 55,000 new Democrat voters.
Will there be a proper Paul-Wellstone-like funeral for all these poor dead people, who no longer will be able to vote?
She had to buy the lists?
Oh crap, look out, the DNC will be pissed!
And by a remarkable coincidence, all 55,000 are Republicans.
Dean & the DNC will not be happy
I wonder how many "dead" voters voted absentee?
I used to have a tag line which read "Dead People Vote DemocRAT"
How many of these people voted recently?
They cannot do that. The Democrats will lose voters.
LOL
Alternate headline: "RATS Lose 55,000 Votes, Will Steal Them Elsewhere"
It's about time that this situation has begun to be addressed. With the amount of technology available today, to have our votes diluted down by massive voter fraud is inexcusable.
How many of these people voted recently?
33,005
Clerk Janice Winfrey had better find herself a bodyguard.
Can't be undoin' the corruption in this town, dear lady!
LOL...do you think Nagin bought a copy of that list so he could add to the NO voter rolls?
This from a search for her name:
http://www.votelaw.com/blog/archives/2005_11.html
Michigan: absentee ballot campaign questioned in Detroit
AP reports: Allegations of racism, biased judges and improprieties that include dead people on the voter roll have surfaced in the weeks before Tuesday's hotly contested city election.
On the eve of the vote, the focus was on City Clerk Jackie Currie and her "Project Vote" program, which sends ambassadors to help the elderly and disabled fill out absentee ballots.
Last week, a judge ordered state and Wayne County election officials to oversee absentee voting after ruling that Currie has been breaking state law in how she handles absentee ballots and supervises the ambassadors.
In late October, The Detroit News reported that Currie's handling of absentee ballots was questionable. The newspaper found that people cast ballots even though their addresses were abandoned nursing homes or in one case, a vacant lot. -- mlive.com: NewsFlash - Allegations of election fraud, racism surface in days before Detroit election
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