Tens of Thousands of Voter Registrations Purged….

[Lerrad]

… from the rolls in at least six swing states.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_ge/voter_p...

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NEW YORK - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states. Election officials lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing wrong.

Here we go again folks. I live in Ohio, and lived through all of this the last time. Enough is enough.

Other than rioting in the streets, (which I will do), what can we do if the election is stolen one more time?

[still_one]

1. People better check to make sure they are registered, now /nt

[Lerrad]

2. This page has links to check your registration n/t

http://www.progresspolitics.com/2008/09/09/illegal-vote... /

[VeraAgnes]

3. These purged voters won't do that.......

It took this long just to register them. We need to file a law suit ASAP to prevent the false purge.

[still_one]

4. Why won't they do that? A lawsuit is fine also, but it might take too long /nt

[NMDemDist2]

5. sounds like normal stuff for the most part

I worked at a County Clerks office and it is exactly how you do it.

a staff member reads the Obits every day in the local papers and checks the names against the database. if the name, street and birthday match, voter is marked deceased. if there is any question a quick call to the mortuary was done, if the birthdate matched it was good. If that info wasn't available, we'd send a letter to the voter informing them of the situation and ask them to call us or stop by the office.

when a new registration comes in there is a line for the last place you were registered. a staff member then sends a letter to that county clerk or election official that the voter is now registered in our jurisdiction. and when we received letters from other Clerks or Election Boards, we would remove the voter from our rolls.

the only other thing we'd do is get felony sentencing files and if the person was incarcerated as a felon, they would be purged too, although it was very rare to find criminals even on the voter rolls.

the article wasn't clear on the Social Security stuff, that kinda confused me........

[WinkyDink]

7. OBITS?! My paper doesn't print exact street addresses. Way to help burglars!

[NMDemDist2]

9. no, not the EXACT address

but the street name and usually an age ie: "Joe Smith, 87, of Smith Street passed away yesterday"

if it all matches up, we send a letter and remove the voter.

[Lerrad]

10. Thats what they said in 2004 as well....

... the only way this is normal is by the way the Repugs normaly do it.

here is another link:
http://www.advancementproject.org/news/news-display-art...

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NEARLY 600,000 OHIO VOTERS MAY BE DISENFRANCHISED
(Columbus, Ohio August 13, 2008) —Based on publicly available information nearly 600,000 eligible voters could be placed on a caging list and challenged on Election Day, which could then result in their removal from the voter rolls without due process, in accordance with Ohio law. Ohio counties with largest numbers of returned notices prior to March 2008 Presidential Primary are Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas and Summit.

[stillcool]

13. but why only in swing states...

are the numbers so out of proportion to years before?

[Cha]

6. Rec'D

Hopefully some of this can get straightened out by tomorrow.

[chill_wind]

8. K/R'd

[Wilms]

11. k&r n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. This really needs investigating - who gave the orders?