According to the Connecticut figures, nearly 18 percent of the 7,711 duplicate voters were also registered in Florida.
Posted on 10/09/2002 1:03:54 PM PDT by NYer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)_ Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz asked the Republican National Committee Wednesday to release the names of thousands of Connecticut registered voters the organization claims are also registered in other states.
An RNC report released Tuesday claimed more than 7,700 voters registered in Connecticut were on voter rolls elsewhere. The RNC released duplicate registration numbers for all 50 states, in a study that expanded an earlier probe that focused on 11 states, including New York and New Jersey.
Bysiewicz called on state Republican Party Chairman Christopher DePino to help her obtain a list of the names. In a letter, sent Wednesday, Bysiewicz said the Republican National Committee has only been willing to provide a numerical listing. ``It is imperative that we receive a list of names of the alleged duplicate voters so that I can advise the registrars of voters and for the state of Connecticut on the steps that must be taken to determine the legitimacy of these allegations,'' Bysiewicz wrote. Bysiewicz said she has alerted the State Elections Enforcement Commission and the U.S. Attorney's Office about the matter. Phone messages were left Wednesday with DePino's office.
Ron SanAngelo, Bysiewicz's Republican opponent, called on the legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee to hold immediate public hearings into why so many Connecticut voters are registered in other states. ``Our secretary of the state, Susan Bysiewicz, owes the citizens of Connecticut an explanation as to why this has happened,'' SanAngelo said. ``I fundamentally believe that every single vote should count, but it should not count twice.'' SanAngelo said the problem is example of Bysiewicz's ``failed leadership.'' He said Connecticut does not have a good, safe system for registering voters.
The comparison of voter lists across the country found that more than 722,000 people nationwide are registered in more than one state. In addition, the RNC said it found 54 Connecticut registrants recorded as actually voting in two states during the 2000 election. According to the Connecticut figures, nearly 18 percent of the 7,711 duplicate voters were also registered in Florida.
RNC spokesman Dan Ronayne said the report was not released to accuse people of wrongdoing or voter fraud. Both he and Bysiewicz noted that there could be a number of reasons for someone being mistakenly included on two states' voter lists.
AP-ES-10-09-02 1546EDT
According to the Connecticut figures, nearly 18 percent of the 7,711 duplicate voters were also registered in Florida.
No mention in the AP story ... it's probably not PC to report those numbers but you and I can pretty much guess.
The findings for New York have been sent to the city Board of Elections, which has vowed to prosecute if it can confirm the RNC's charges.
In all, the study found, 361,000 people nationwide are registered in two places although only about 1 percent actually double-voted.
"We believe this exposes a tremendous potential for abuse and we hope the people that need to look at this will look at this," said RNC spokesman Kevin Sheridan.
He stressed that where records show the same person voted in two places, it's possible that the fraud was actually committed by another person.
The RNC said the double-voters generally reflected the political leanings of each state - meaning most double-voters from New York were Democrats.
All but 13 New Yorker double-voters were from the city, where registration is 68 percent Democratic and just 13 percent Republican.
I own homes in two states. I spend about 6 months in each. While I have no intention of voting twice in a Federal election, I should be able to vote in local elections that effect my property and taxes in each of the states. As it stands right now, I am taxed without representation in one of the states.
Unfortunately, they cannot be removed from the rolls unless they request it. (No, I'm not kidding.)
Motor-Voter states that, unless the county clerk receives a letter from the voter requesting that he be removed from the vote roll, the voter stays on. So if you're planning to die, and don't want to vote dem in the afterlife, be sure your heirs have a letter written and signed by you -- to be mailed after your demise (or, given your screen name, ASAP) -- requesting that you be removed from that county's voter roll.
Resident aliens are supposed to pay taxes but don't vote, either. People who own two homes in one district don't get two votes, either, even though they get taxed twice as much as someone with only one similar house; they do get two homeowners association votes if they have a HOA.
Didn't the Washington, D.C., Mayor recently say he supported allowing noncitizen local residents (legal or illegal) to vote in local elections? But this brings up the mob rule idea of democracy -- everyone votes to take your property (through taxes). Dangerous idea!
I hope they do something about the duplicate voters!
I don't think most people in your situation draw the line at federal elections. In Florida we have a real problem with Northern tax-dodging bluehairs that also own property here cancelling out our votes in the federal election by voting in both places. They need to start throwing tough prison sentences at those who do vote twice in the same election.
They have to be Democrats. Republicans are an endangered species in Connecticut as in most all of NE.
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