Voter registration databases in jeporady

[SHRED]

Another and equally disturbing problem.

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Computerized Voter Registration Databases Need a Major Overhaul
Political scientist Thad Hall says federal standards are required to prevent state electronic registration databases from disenfranchising people.
By Katherine Bourzac

Voters can get purged from the rolls because there are no federal electronic standards for maintaining registration databases. (Credit: Getty Images)

What Americans should be most worried about this November, say elections experts like Thad Hall, a political scientist at the University of Utah, is not that someone might hack the Diebold machine they're using to vote--but that their names might disappear from the rolls entirely. According to him, the greatest risks of fraud or disenfranchisement concern voter registration.

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On voting machines:

Regardless of party and/or political affiliation, everyone should be concerned that we are turning the sacred trust of our PUBLIC voting over to PRIVATE corporations with proprietary software and hackable machines.

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/index.html

[jarnocan]

1. If it's not one thing it's another, REALLY. Thanks K+R nt

[sam sarrha]

2. everybody should file a civil rights case.. if they suddenly have to work

to earn that fat paycheck... they will do something about it,

nothing else will change anything.. the fear of having to work for a living and going to jail is the only thing that will straighten the problem out. they have probably packed the jobs involved in vote stealing with flying monkeys..

[midnight]

3. Thad Hall has a good understanding of what occurred in the

2004 election. Last night on PBS there was a documentary shown about the 2004 election and how 500 pages of voters were purged from the list of eligible voters. What the election person in charge did was use the process that first time voters have to use. Some form of I.D. to prove that they are who they say they are. It should be known, if there is purging, that the next back up is to use first time voting standards. Check with your locals to find out what that is. In the case of 500 pages of purged voters. These folks were considered dead.

[elehhhhna]

4. Go here NOW & check your reg on line:

www.canivote.org