from badger blogger...link in title
The State of Washington spends millions of dollars on a computer system designed to review voter registration data, and weed out ineligible voters. Sounds like a great idea, right?
Only one problem: There’s no provision in the system for identifying felons whom a court has deemed ineligible to vote.
Seattle TV station KIRO contracted for an independent, third-party cross-check of the state computer system’s voting records. Their findings? 23,927 convicted felons, ineligible to vote according to federal law, yet cleared to vote in the upcoming election as far as the State of Washington is concerned.
What else did the station’s investigation discover? 6,812 of the 23,927 have already voted in Washington state elections this year.
The Secretary of State boasts that the system has already eliminated 40,000 “dead, duplicate, underage, and non-citizen voters” from the states voter rolls. Yet, he admits, the felon issue “is a problem.”
“It’s almost impossible to track,” says Washington’s Secretary of State. It would require state employees to compare database voting records to paper-format court records and transcripts of judgments. (Translation: “It’s too hard.”)
Sound familiar?
You can watch the video of the Seattle station’s report at this link.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Seattle TV station finds 23,927 felons eligible to vote, according to state records
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What? Haven't you found anything about the fraud taking place in Texas, Oklahoma and South Dakota? Oh, of course not! Those aren't swing states!
Ohio...
and what is your point?
If you are trying to say there is vote fraud from the other side...its much harder to find...cause just about all vote fraud is on the left...and I prove it every day.
cause just about all vote fraud is on the left...and I prove it every day.
Say that again so I can have another laugh.. How about election fraud. How about the US Attorneys scandal? Ever hear of that. Your outrage is selective and dismissive and quite party over country in my book.
well the whole thing falls flat here:
"23,927 convicted felons, ineligible to vote according to federal law"
the eligibilty of felons to vote is set by the states individually, not by federal law. many states allow felons to vote once they have served time. some allow them to vote IN PRISON.
keep turning this whole election into the dems cheated, the dems cheated. boy it just breaks my heart to hear you saying this.
irony is NOT dead!
I HIGHLY recommend checking out libertylive.org for more information on this specific case in Washington - including background information and links to the actual state policies that are not being enforced.
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