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.
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Yes, apparently she had to buy the lists. Why one government agency should have to pay for mere information from another government agency puzzles me.
In fact, death lists should be automatically forwarded to the appropriate boards of elections.
Women, children and minorities will be the hardest hit!
Kerry:2,479,183
Bush: 2,313,746
Difference: 165,437
Wayne County
Kerry: 600,047
Bush: 257,750
Difference: 342,297
55,000 dead Democrats.
It doesn't matter. This city is owned by the Democrat Party.
55,000 dead people removed from the voter rolls? Well look on the bright side---at the time, the person compiling the names got a lot of fresh air and exercise getting the names off tombstones.
So that's why they call 'rats the party of death.
Don't miss this nugget:
>>>Clerk Janice Winfrey bought lists of deaths from the state and city health department.<<<
I hope this is being investigated.
Same thing happened in Milwaukee, in effect turning the state red in my opinion. New Mexico didnt certify the vote until they recounted it many times. Dems cant win on message, treason, military hatred, and appeasement, so they cheat..
"Orleans Parish, La. just got 55,000 new Democrat voters."
Do you suppose the City Clerks sell voting lists like email addresses? Might be a way to make money for the city in a tight economy. :>)
Oh, the dead vote heer in Philly alright. The Dems have complete control of the city, even if the Pubs wanted to come heer and slug it out (which they NEVER do), the Dems are in charge of all the records. We're a lost cause.
The "Ruins of Detroit" site:
http://detroityes.com/home.htm
Um, I know how to spell "hear". My fingers get crossed up sometimes. PIMF
I've been screaming from the rooftops that more stringent nation wide voting rules should be enacted for Federal offices since we have the White House and Congress. if they can't cheat, they can't win.
Ok, forget it. The lack of sleep is frying my brain (we have a newborn in the house). I'll stop now.
The word I keep meaning to type is "here".
A caller to a Baltimore talk show said that he was a "bottom line kind of guy". As long Maryland's loose voter laws led to Democrat victories, they were ok with him. A lot of Dems must feel like that.
I would prefer that voter re-registry, with Voter Photo ID, be required in every year ending in an odd or even number, myself.....
Don't read the last sentence of the story. Just be sure to get your dig in.
Congrats !
Gee, I wonder why the "esteemed" Congressman from Detroit, John Conyers, had not investigated this. Every time someone from the Bush administration breaks wind,Conyers starts an investigation. (sarc)
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