Reply #32: IN WISHTV: Mistakes Being Found in Purged Voter Rolls

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Mistakes Being Found in Purged Voter Rolls
Aug 10, 2006 06:38 PM EDT

By Rick Dawson


To clean up the voter rolls, some central Indiana counties have cancelled more than three out of every four potential duplicate registrations. Marion County officials cancelled just 12 percent, but already they're finding mistakes.

On the day the Marion County Election Board watched a test of new voting machines for the disabled, the recent attempt to cancel duplicate voter registrations is facing a test of its own. Terri Todd is one of 18 voters so far, 10 Republicans and eight Democrats, who've called in the mistake.
"I got a card that said I'd been dropped by the voting rolls because I was double registered. That was not the case," said Terri Todd.

"I think we have to now question what happened to those 4,000 people that we have decided to go ahead and purge. When we take a look after two days, we've had 18 people call in, who just say ‘I'm still there'," said Ed Treacy, County Democratic Chairman.

Human data entry error is sometimes causing the wrong duplicate to be cancelled. Republicans say, for now, the number of mistakes is low.

"This was 99.6 percent accurate. 99.6, which I think is as close to 100 percent accurate as humanly possible," said Kyle Walker from voter registration.

The board ordered both party leaders in the voter registration office to once again scrutinize the 4,000 duplicates cancelled so far and to reinstate people who call in.


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