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proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts) Sat Jul 14, 2012, 05:43 AM Jul 2012

Dogs, dead people get election papers from nonprofit

OLYMPIA, Wash. • The voter registration form arrived in the mail last month with some key information already filled in: Rosie Charlston's name was complete, as was her Seattle address.
Problem is, Rosie was a black lab who died in 1998.

A group called the Voter Participation Center has touted the distribution of some 5 million registration forms in recent weeks, targeting Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as unmarried women, blacks, Latinos and young adults.

But residents and election administrators around the country also have reported a series of bizarre and questionable mailings addressed to animals, dead people, noncitizens and people already registered to vote.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/dogs-dead-people-get-election-papers-from-nonprofit/article_67cdf632-73e9-5363-8ba7-748f9e4d4298.html#ixzz20aXa7nPy

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Dogs, dead people get election papers from nonprofit (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Jul 2012 OP

There is no mystery here...they are using commercial lists that have not been verified... rfranklin Jul 2012 #1

rfranklin

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1. There is no mystery here...they are using commercial lists that have not been verified...

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Original post)

Sat Jul 14, 2012, 06:49 AM

Jul 2012

The group at the root of the questionable mailings — the Voter Participation Center — acknowledges that the databases it uses to contact possible voters are imperfect because they are developed from commercially collected information. The group also says it expects people who receive misdirected mail to simply throw it away.

Several election officials said they believed the voter registration systems were secure enough to catch people who might improperly submit the misdirected documents, since registrants typically have to furnish ID and election managers use databases — such as death records — to see if someone should be disallowed.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/dogs-dead-people-get-election-papers-from-nonprofit/article_67cdf632-73e9-5363-8ba7-748f9e4d4298.html#ixzz20aoIQ4Th

I confess to filling out forms with phoney names when answering questionnaires, etc. but I have never registered under any of those names and certainly never voted under any of those names. This is more Republican crapola.

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