The Independent View: 13,000 Voters on Rolls in Maryland still on D.C. Rolls

This post comes from an article by Jeffrey Anderson an investigative reporter for The Washington Times.

Washington, D.C., has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George's County Maryland and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods after a review of records.

In dozens of cases, names are listed as voting in both jurisdictions in the November 2012 presidential election. Provided a subset of the names, the District pulled paper records and said most did not vote, but that other voters accidentally associated their ballots with the former residents' names instead of their own.

For others listed as voting in both jurisdictions, they had no such explanation.

"All voter fraud violations discovered by the District of Columbia Board of Elections will be referred to both the District and the United States Attorney General Offices for further review," said D.C. Board of Elections spokeswoman Agnes Moss.

Democrats who have been deeply active for decades in the community of black, middle-class residents, who, by the tens of thousands have left the District for its eastern neighbor, though are still active in the District or employed by the government, said Prince George's County residents using their former D.C. addresses to cast votes there is an open secret.

"It happens a lot," said Ward 7 activist Geraldine Washington. "I know of people who still vote in their old address after they've moved [out of the District]. I mean years after. They do that a lot."

The list of voters with names so unusual that there has been only one in the District and one in Prince George's and who are listed as voting in both jurisdictions in the 2012 election is in the thousands.

Indeed, the list of Prince George's voters with unusual names that match those on voter rolls in the District was far longer, at 13,000.

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