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.

[Berosus]

A year or two ago, I heard that Plano, TX had the most conservative voters of any American city, and that Detroit voters were the most liberal. Does this take Detroit out of the #1 leftist spot? Of course, there's still the Moslem community, prompting Debbie Schlussel and a few others to call it "Fallujah on the Great Lakes."

[Trajan88]

zombies can vote?

I guess they did in Detroit, ROCK CITY.

[SunkenCiv]

Dearborn is the Moslem ghetto, but that may stem from the efforts of Hitler friend and fan, Henry Ford, who published The Dearborn Independent and uttered that infamous phrase, "history is bunk."