I also wanted to discuss a separate issue involving purges of existing voters from registration lists, which is affecting thousands of long-time voters in states across the country who may be surprised when they arrive at polls in November to find that their name has been inexplicably stricken from their state's voter roll. Full Story »
Posted by Mike LaBonte
This is part I of III. It provides a primer about the laws affecting registration and voter ID matches, but has a less extensive list of abuses under way in the various states this election. Some of the other NewsTrust stories have more on that.
In August, Wisconsin conducted a test of 20,000 voter names against motor vehicle records and found 20 percent with mismatches, due mainly to typos and transposed numbers. Among those who failed to match were four members of the state’s Government Accountability Board, which conducted the test. Thomas Cane, the board’s chairman and a retired judge, failed because he was listed by his full name, R. Thomas Cane, in his driver’s record.
The judges failed the ID match test. Must be deadbeats….