Detroit clerk to purge 55,000 names from voter rolls

AP via Mlive.com ^ | 07/18/2006 | Unknown

[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.

[Titan Magroyne]

Clerk Janice Winfrey bought lists of deaths from the state and city health department.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. It could be that her buying the lists like any private citizen was an end run around anticipated civil servant shenanigans. Joan Q. Public pays the fee and takes the list, you hardly look at her twice. The new City Clerk in office after a scandal - soon as the request comes in through appropriate governmental channels and with official agency header, it might inspire a little um ... creativity from the records provider. Sad to imagine corruption that deep, but *shrug* there ya go.

[BluH2o]

Thanks for making my point with specific numbers ... Wayne County (Detroit) put it over the top for Kerry ... as I recall, one of the very few Michigan counties that didn't vote for Bush.

[griswold3]

Is there a Necro-American ping list?
Disenfranchising viably challenged voters that would vote for Democrats. Just because they're dead doesn't mean they don't have a legacy.

[LexBaird]

Y'all have been disenfranchised ping.

[kabar]

15 counties voted for Kerry. Of course, Wayne County alone was enough to overcome Bush's lead in the rest of the state and give Kerry a comfortable victory margin. The same thing happened in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. Widespread voter fraud by the Dem machines in these cities needs to be stopped. I fault the GOP for not making more of an effort in pursuing this issue.

It is easy to understand why the Dems oppose every effort to require picture IDs for voters.

[hoosiermama]

Thanks Cal. for the heads up, will pass it on!

[MattinNJ]

He just doesn't want to see the dead disenfranchised

[Bahbah]

This is how the dems win elections. If they really did clean up the fraud, there would be far fewer of them in office.

[rocksblues]

It is entirely possible that Kerry's margin of victory in Michigan were these "voters" in Detroit. Same thing is true in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

How about Philadelphia, PA, Baltimore, MD, NYC, NY?

[Military family member]

In our county, were have 102.57% voter registration.

[Calpernia]

and NJ

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2005/09/dead-people-voting-in-new-jersey.html
** Voting Zombie Alert in New Jersey **

The Republican Party in New Jersey has found THOUSANDS of dead people who voted in the November elections last year:

More at link

[Dead Corpse]

Y'all have been disenfranchised ping.

Awww... dang it.

[dynachrome]

"Me vote Clinton"

[maine-iac7]

New Mexico didnt certify the vote until they recounted it many times.

Exactly - it worked for them in 2000 but in 2004, there were just too many votes for Bush for them to manufacture counter votes. Gotta give 'em "A" for effort tho, they tried their darnedest.

[CottonBall]

This is how the dems win elections. If they really did clean up the fraud, there would be far fewer of them in office.

It's amazing the GOP does as well as it does considering the voter fraud by the democrats and the misinformation by the MSM.

[maica]

LOL! And you actually used "loose" correctly!

[Sterm26]

Thanks! I'm on the lookout for Freep baby-wear!

[HowardLSmith.ô¿ô]

Thank You,

a bit of good news sneaks out of the papers everyday!

[SunkenCiv]

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.

I guess the question I have is, when the newspaper did that, was it pointing out what a great thing that is?

[SunkenCiv]

There should be no more shopper card voting, either.

Democrats file briefs in voter ID case
AP via ContraCostTimes.com | 07/18/2006 | KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN
Posted on 07/18/2006 5:30:04 PM EDT by oxcart
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