Wisconsin is now the Third State in which Officials have Found Examples of People Voting in more than One State in the 2018 Election.
The Number of Alleged Illegal Voting represents a tiny Fraction of the Overall Totals.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission Voted this week to refer 43 Cases of Suspected Cross-State Voting to District Attorneys in 19 Counties for Possible Prosecution.
The Apparent Double Voting was found by Matching Data through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a Collaboration of 30 States and the District of Columbia that Share Voter Registration Data in order to Keep the Voter Rolls Up-to-Date and Spot Possible Fraud.
Why isn't All States using this Cross-Check system?
Secretaries of State in Iowa (9) and Ohio (10) have recently Announced they were Forwarding Cases of Apparent Double Voting to Prosecutors.
The use of these Sophisticated Methods of Matching Voters across Jurisdictions has become Deeply Partisan in recent years.
Republican Election Officials have used the Information to Justify attempts to Remove the Names of a Large Number of Voters from the Rolls. There was different Companies performing this type of Matching, but many States left them when their Data was Questioned.
In announcing the Criminal Referral, Wisconsin Election Officials pointed out that the 43 Cases accounted for just .0002% of the 2.7 Million Votes Cast in November 2018.
Democratic Election Officials and Voting Rights Advocates have Objected that some of the Apparent Matches showing People, Registered and Voting, in more than One Place turn out to be Incorrect. But every Voting Cycles, there are a Small Number of Voters who own Homes in Multiple States and get Caught Voting Twice.
Election Officials Advise People to Double Check whether their Voter Registration is still Valid well in Advance of an Election.
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1 comment:
It is not necessarily illegal for anyone to vote in two states in the November 2018 election, because many states allow early voting. So if a voter in one state was a bona fide resident of that state as of October 1, 2018, and used early voting and voted in that state, and then made a bona fide move to another state, and voted in the new state, that is not necessarily illegal. This is one of the consequences of allowing early voting.
The same offices were not on the ballot in each of the two states. It isn't as though that voter voted twice in the same election.
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