More Vote Shenanigans: ‘08 Preview
Posted on | June 15, 2007
With elections coming next year, the federal Department of Justice is busily trying to invalidate as many ballots as possible, this time with the usual phony voter-fraud excuse in their call to action in North Carolina.
In a letter two months ago, the Justice Department said it was reviewing North Carolina’s voter rolls and that it found irregularities in the number of people registered to vote. Similar reviews have led to lawsuits against election officials in seven other states, including Georgia.
The second broad challenge is from State Auditor Les Merritt, whose office began a review of the state’s voter rolls in January.
His staff presented preliminary findings to the State Board of Elections last week. According to the board, Merritt’s staff cited 24,821 invalid driver’s license numbers in the voter registration database, 380 people who appear to have voted after their dates of death and others who were under age 18 when they voted.
Gary Bartlett, executive director of the elections board, responded Wednesday with a stinging 10-page letter declaring many of the findings invalid. He accused Merritt’s office of misleading the elections board and of rejecting its help…
In a sharply worded response, Bartlett pointed to flaws in the Justice Department’s analysis. For example, election officials have to wait two consecutive federal elections to remove someone who has simply been inactive. In a county like Mecklenburg with many people moving in and out, the voter roll can appear inflated.
In any case, the Justice Department cited no evidence of anyone voting illegally or of voter fraud.
Republican vote suppression: coming soon to your state. Their thumbs are always on the scale.
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