Can I Vote

At least 1.8 million people on the voter rolls will not be able to cast their ballots in November. That is because they are dead.

Their registrations are among a total of more than 24 million inaccurate or out-of-date U.S. voter records, according Pew Center on the States.

The tools that boards of elections have are just not up to the task of keeping up with our mobile society.

States update voter registration rolls from sources such as Social Security records and change-of-address forms, but data collection methods are inaccurate, costly, and inefficient.

Now eight states - Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Utah, and Nevada - are joining with the center in a pilot project to share information in an effort to update voter lists.

Use the above link to check your voter eligibility.









NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!

Michael H. Drucker
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53,000 Dead Voters Found in FL

Florida election officials are set to announce that the Secretary of State has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.

How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.

Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, some election officials won’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate. That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.

In some cases, people are still voting in the names of dead voters and again in their names.

Consider the case of Lafayette Keaton. Keaton not only voted for a dead person in Oregon, he voted for his dead son. Making Keaton’s fraud easier was Oregon’s vote by mail scheme, which has opened up gaping holes in the integrity of elections. The incident in Oregon just scratches the surface of the problem. Massachusetts and Mississippi are but two other examples of the dead rising on election day.

Florida should be applauded for taking the problem seriously. We wish Eric Holder’s Justice Department and many state election officials will correct this problem.









NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!

Michael H. Drucker
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