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Elections officials vote against voter penalties

By ASSOCIATED PRESS   Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 4:54 p.m.
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State elections officials have refused a state Republican Party request to force voters who fail identification checks to cast a provisional ballot this fall.

Federal law requires each state to build a statewide voter registration list and cross-reference names with other state databases to verify identity and address. It's up to the states to decide what to do with people who get red-flagged.

The state Government Accountability Board hasn't established penalties for prospective voters who get red-flagged and ignore requests to correct their status. The state GOP had asked the board to either remove them from the eligible voter list or allow them to vote by provisional ballot.

But the board voted Wednesday to let everyone vote and sort out the problems after the election.




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TheAnswerIs42
Aug 28, 2008 at 2:45 p.m.
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Great link Janesvillian. I should have included the words "a couple of employees" instead of implicating the entire organization.

janesvillean
Aug 28, 2008 at 2:18 p.m.
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Both ACORN and the Community Voters Project have caught and fired workers submitting fraudulent registrations. Most of ACORN's problems have been workers falsely telling voters they need to register annually when they are already registered, but that's not elections fraud.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx...

TheAnswerIs42
Aug 28, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.
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re: ACORN. Employees had a quota of people to register to vote and when they didn't make that quota they would fudge voter registrations with fake information. They committed a fraud in the process and should be prosecuted. However, I think its important to distinguish that according to OH election officials the ACORN issue will not effect anyone actually voting. IE: No one will be able to vote twice for several reasons.
Hatch- could you give some examples of "rig the voter machines".

insightfullone
Aug 28, 2008 at 12:46 p.m.
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This comment is in reference to "hatch". I work for municipal government and with the elections. There is no way to rig the voting machines, unless false ballots are entered but here in Wisconsin, everything is accounted for. As for the provisional ballots, they are counted. We have dealt with this before. There are people who lie and cheat the system but they will get caught. It could be several months later but we have prosecuted voters for doing such.

BillyClydePuckett
Aug 27, 2008 at 10:35 p.m.
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Yea Hatch, you got it right. Those dirty Republicans, just look how long they have controlled politics in places like Chicago and what trick they have resorted to. Dead people voting, people put on the city payroll for phantom jobs, bid rigging and who knows what else. Its about time those Republicans got what was coming to them. What? Oh, never mind.

newsread5
Aug 27, 2008 at 8:16 p.m.
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It's common knowledge that the left owns and operates voter fraud through operations such as the soon to be indicted ACORN and others. It is not surprising that the leftists in charge go along.

hatch
Aug 27, 2008 at 7:35 p.m.
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It's not enough to rig the voter machines........republi-tards in Wisconsin want to play red flag provisional ballot tag. It is widely known that provisional ballots are not counted. Whatever it takes to steal yet another electioin right? I applaud the election officials for telling republicans to sit down and shut your pie hole.

TheAnswerIs42
Aug 27, 2008 at 6:39 p.m.
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WI has 4,350 "red flags". According to the director of the database most of those non-matches can be traced to typos such as leaving out spaces and apostrophes in compound names. The state is working on correcting those. For clarification these are people who have previously registered and voted.

From the database work that I've done in the past an example of this would be "Martin Van Buren" versus "Martin VanBuren".

IMHO the quote "But the board voted Wednesday to let everyone vote and sort out the problems after the election." is form of lazy and irresponsible journalism.

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