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.
She sounds like she's doing a great job.
Winfrey was elected in November.
"Clerk" is an elected position in Detroit?
She had to *buy* the lists?
Yeah, the MSM was all over this fraud weren't they?
Fact is, it's never fraud when Dems cheat. It's just "good politics".
In national elections Detroit is always the last to turn in results in Michigan. Bottom line the 'Rats establish how many votes it will take to put their guy in the winners column and Detroit delivers ... this has been going on for years.
Will they match the names and dates of the dead with the voter rolls from 2004?
I have no doubt they will all vote in November.
how dare they disenfranchise all those democrat voters?
hehehe
Thanks for the info & link.
PING to Wa. state. Tell us again how your govenor got elected.
It is entirely possible that Kerry's margin of victory in Michigan were these "voters" in Detroit. Same thing is true in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
they moved to Beruit
New Orleans has served that function in Louisiana forever.
It is no coincidence that Orleans Parish is always the last to report.
In the next election she is toast.
Move to St Louis and get elected to do the same job.
Probably none of them, contrary to rumors spread by Republican Party campaign workers spreading their propoganda via the Drudge Report. The Republicans never identified by name the dead persons who supposedly voted in Philadelphia according to a report they filtered through Drudge early on election day 2004.
Do you think it would be worth a postage stamp and paper to write Sixty Minutes a letter asking them to investigate this fraud?
Nah.
Guess how many of them are dead?
If you factor out the pulse-challenged voters in 2004, Kerry's take is more like 45%. The city of Milwaukee purged a 150,000 voters who may have voted in 2004, who were non-existent. Here in STL, Polls were kept open later than allowed when algore was projected to lose. Bottom line-the dems, lacking message, ability, and likeability, have to cheat in elections...
Probably none of them, contrary to rumors spread by Republican Party campaign workers spreading their propoganda via the Drudge Report. The Republicans never identified by name the dead persons who supposedly voted in Philadelphia
Sniff, sniff.
Did you not read the whole story or just ignoring it?
Here's the last sentence
"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."
Well gee, here is a thought you don't hear everyday.
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