Along with 24 million others who aren’t valid any longer
The United States’ voter registration system is in chaos — about 24 million registrations are no longer valid and nearly 2 million dead people are still on voter rolls, according to a new report Tuesday.
Along with the one of every eight voter registrations that is not valid or has significant inaccuracies, there are 2.75 million people currently registered to vote in more than one state, the Pew Center on the States study found. And the millions of problematic registrations aren’t the only issue — researchers estimate at least 51 million eligible U.S. citizens aren’t registered to vote. That’s nearly one in four, or 24 percent of the eligible population.
Additionally, about 12 million records have incorrect addresses, meaning it’s unlikely any mailings can reach these voters, the research in the report shows.
Still, David Becker, director of Pew’s Election Initiatives, said that the center’s findings did not suggest any kind of voter fraud or voter suppression from these problems, but noted they do “underscore the need for an improved system.”
There also are more than 1.8 million deceased people who still have active registration on voter rolls, Pew found. And, Becker said, the outdated, inefficient systems currently in place are “not designed to keep up with deaths as they occur.”
But hey, voter ID’s are oppressive
The Obama Administration’s re-election mobilization continues: Witness Eric Holder’s attempt to play the race card and perhaps twist the law in a campaign against voter identification laws.
In the Attorney General’s telling, the movement in the states to require voters to show some ID is a revival of minority disenfranchisement a la Jim Crow. A growing number of minorities, he said in a speech last week, are now worried about “the same disparities, divisions and problems” that beset the country in 1965 and “many Americans, for the first time in their lives . . . now have reason to believe that we are failing to live up” to the promise of democracy for all.
If you haven’t heard about this national crisis, perhaps that’s because you don’t travel in Mr. Holder’s political circles. He is merely repeating the howls of groups like the NAACP and the George Soros-funded Brennan Center, which claim without evidence that voter ID laws hurt minorities.
The NAACP even petitioned the United Nations this month for a human-rights ruling on what President Benjamin Jealous called a “tidal wave of assaults on the right to vote.” He meant in America, not Cuba or North Korea. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued to challenge a voter ID law in Wisconsin.
If democrats put the same energy they expend whining about voter ID’s into actually procuring voter ID’s for those they are concerned for this wouldn’t be an issue.
Which tells you they want the issue over the solution.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
@Greg:
Greg . . . you are an absolutely f______g moron! You along with your democratic fiends are destroying the USA. Wise up – of course, this is an oxy-moron in itself because you just don’t use any brain power whatsoever to think. You and your moron fiends are the closest thing to Communists. Competition is normally good but in this case, the Dems have too many a_-__s on their team.
I would tell you to read and think but just like your moron democratic fiends, you all can’t! Start with the basics: do you buy more than you can afford? Quite simple isn’t it but alas even this you cannot understand.
Randy Colonel, your frustration is showing. Who would you prefer to lead your party against Obama? Have a great Sunday.
Anticsrocks I clearly stated my thoughts above re 08 and the current Repub. race. Yours are stated below. Next case. BTW Unless you consider Fox the msm I’m not being “spoon fed” anything. As you know I particularly like O’Reilly’s show.
Semper Fi
@Richard Wheeler: It’s pretty simple Rich. You just made an assumption that has been spoon fed to you by the MSM; that this year’s GOP candidates are somehow a weak field because there isn’t clear front runner yet.
When I pointed out that the Dems had a very similar situation in the last national election cycle, you said it was because the Dem field was a strong, rather than a weak field. It is a pretty hypocritical stance to take, isn’t it? At this time in 2008, your base had trouble accepting a front runner for their nomination. That doesn’t make that field any weaker or stronger than the present GOP group of candidates. In fact I would posit that the hotter the primary contest, the stronger the eventual nominee. Primary “opposition research” gets the, for lack of a better term, scuttle butt out against the candidates and inoculates the electorate somewhat when it comes time for the general election.
To say that voter indecision begets weakness is a foolish statement to make.
I’m not upset at the “current state of the G.O.P.” at all, save to say that Romney is relying too much on negative attack ads And that strategy won’t help him at all if he tries to compete with Obama in that fashion this fall, should he get the nomination.
I wasn’t upset when I pointed out how you ignored the point I made, about a subject that YOU started. Seems like you have drifted away from actual discussion as of late and, instead just want to stir things up.
THAT would be weird to stand in line between TWO DEAD CORPS to cast your vote,
you have to push ahead the one in front and watch the one in the back of you dragging his feet,
what if the other think you are among the dead and try to kill you,
a gruesome scenario to envisage in NOVEMBER,
They’re a weak field because every one of them will be rejected by the majority of Democratic voters, and any one of them will have a serious problem winning a majority of independent voters. The fact that none of them has strong support across the entire spectrum of republican voters at this point is still one step away from that main difficulty.
GREG
HI
you mean the DEMOCRATS will reject the living their votes?
or reject the votes from the deads?
bye
BEES #54 Zombie vote very important demographic in America.
Richard Wheeler
yes those zombies all vote DEMOCRAT
that’s why OBAMA is fighting the ID law,
that is the jobs he promissed to give to AMERICANS,
to get rid of the voters replacing it by the zombies
who love him
These are voter registration errors, as opposed to voter fraud. The first official to make this information public was a democrat.
ED
hi,
I read your last sentence which I had pass before, and “you said I’m sure we have not seen the end of it.”
‘ It can happen again, having far right or far left,
I say if you have a choice take the far right, at least his honor will guide him to be the best PRESIDENT , as you see now a left side burying themselves and the worse part is taking AMERICA with them in the pit of no return.
that should not need any advice for you to decide which way to votes, don’t you think?
seo outsourcing
glad to know you are from my time 2013,
2o12 seems so far away now we are ready for another of those election,
we would have done so much better with MITT ROMNEY,
HOPE THE REPUBLICANS LEARN THEIR LESSON TO NOT IMPOSE THE VOTERS IF ANOTHER IS RISING OVER THEIR CHOICE,
hope the democrats who spend the people”s money to buy votes are arrested and expose publicly,
hell they even get them from there to get their votes,
BYE AND WELCOME TO FLOPPING ACES,
NO NEED FOR AN ACTOR,TO BE VOTED PRESIDENT,
NO NEED FOR A BIG SPENDER, NO NEED FOR A BIG MOUTH
PROMISSING TO PAY FOR YOUR GAZ,
BUT THIS TIME THE DEMAND IS FOR A GOOD AMERICAN WITH ROOTS IN THE GROWND,
ONE THAT LOVE AMERICA AND WANT THE BEST FOR THE PEOPLE FIRST,
NO NEED FOR ONE WHO APOLOGYSE TO THE FOREIGNERS FOR AMERICA,
NO NEED FOR ONE WHO BOW DOWN TO OTHER KINGS AND QUEENS,
WE NEED A PERSON WHO CAN SHUT HIS MOUTH AND INVITE THE CREATOR TO FIND A WAY TO CLOSE THE BORDERS, AND RECLAIME THE AMERICAN CAPITALIST WAY WHICH MADE THE MANY RICH IN THIS COUNTRY SPEND THEIR MONEY, NOT GIVE THEIR MONEY TO OBAMA,
WE DON’T NEED ANY DEMOCRAT IN THE GOVERNMENT JOBS ANYMORE, BECAUSE THEY HAD THE CHANCE AND BLEW IT WITH THEIR IMPLEMENTATION AND REGULATION AND SPEECHS TELLING CRAZY THINGS, WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO GET OF OUR SHOULDER, GET OF OUR PROPERTY, GET OF OUR FOOD INTAKE, GET OF OUR PERSONAL BUSINESS, GET OF THE CHRISTIANS’ S BACK, AND NOT INDOCTRINATE THE CHILDREN,
TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE HE IS A MESSIAH, WHICH HE AIN’T,
and we don’t need him to supress THE NAME OF JESUS, GOD, THE FLAG THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS,
WE DON’T NEED A PRESIDENT TO LECTURE NEGATIVLY THE MIGHTY WARRIORS AND GET OF THEIR BACK AND LET THEM FIGHT THE WAR THEY KNOW BETTER, AND COME BACK TO THEIR LOVED ONES, PROUD NOT HAVING BEEN HUMILIATED BY THE THE KARZEI OF THE WORLD,
WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO HAS CLASS AND DON’T NEED SPEECHS TO IMPOSE ON THE WORLD AND MAKE THE AMERICANS PROUD OF AMERICA, WHICH THEY OWN,
WE DON’T NEED A PRESIDENT WHO LET THE DIPLOMATS AROUND THE WORLD DIE WITHOUT SENDING THE MIGHTEST MILITARY TO HELP THEM, AS NO MAN IS LEFT BEHIND,
AND TELL AMERICANS AFTER WARD,
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE AT THIS POINT,