Posted on 08/31/2012 7:40:34 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Democrats have feared for years that one of the particular challenges of running campaigns in 2012 would be simply locating their voters. The partys constituencies (young people, immigrants, minorities) tend to be among the most mobile demographic groups. And as NPR speculated this week in an analysis of battleground-state foreclosure figures, the housing crisis will likely only have made things more difficult for Democrats looking for their supporters.
But the voter file represented a fiction, or at least a reality that had rapidly become out of date. During those eight weeks, canvassers were able to successfully find and interact with only 31 percent of their targets. Twice that number were confirmed to no longer live at the address on file either because a structure was abandoned or condemned, or if a current resident reported that the targeted voter no longer lived there.
Last month the Milwaukee County District Attorneys office subpoenaed the national office of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) in Washington D.C. for the employment documents of a senior organizer currently under investigation for vote fraud in Wisconsin.
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Yeah, ya have to have a valid ID.
Enh. They’ll just find surrogates from among illegal immigrants. What’s good for the dead is good for the missing. Make sure every vote counts.
Yes, that was the mantra of the Gore supporters in the 2000 Florida recount. What they really meant is that it matters not at all if that vote were cast by someone ineligible to vote, who had voted more than once, or was a dead person or a pet animal.
Yes, perhaps some of them had to move south where the jobs moved to in areas that tend to be more conservative, therefore diluting their vote.
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