Glitches fill Ohio voter rolls
In Hamilton County, 17 people are registered to vote from riverfront addresses south of Mehring Way - places with street numbers that would put their homes somewhere in the Ohio River.
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Thousands of voters appear on registration lists twice - some as many as six times. At least 589 registered voters - mostly in Franklin and Cuyahoga counties - were born in 1991 or later, which puts them under the legal voting age.
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As an election official I deal directly with voter database problems, and I know that they are almost all caused by mistakes. Our state databases really do need to be fixed up, and requiring IDs would help. However, the changes required to accomplish both bring us closer to the universal IDs that privacy advocates abhor. Also it is unfair to indict voter databases because they don't match motor vehicle registration records, because it is mostly the latter that are in error. For example, the "myth" about police addresses being hidden is real. But the story misses that police have to register using their correct home address, and election officials are then not allowed to give out that information. The Patriot Act expand the list of people who are protected this way.