Milwaukee may remove voters with suspect addresses
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Nearly 2,700 registered voters in Milwaukee could be removed from the rolls because they have addresses that do not exist.
The Milwaukee Elections Commission sent letters last week warning the voters to resolve the discrepancy or they’ll be required to re-register on Election Day.
Assistant Director Neil Albrecht says many of the letters will be returned but they needed to be sent to confirm the addresses are undeliverable.
Albrecht says the commission hired a consulting firm to check the addresses of registered voters against U.S. Postal Service records of deliverable addresses.
He says that resulted in about 3,000 voters using suspect addresses. A few hundred of them were either data entry errors or street name changes that could be cleared up. The others were sent a letter.
Oct 17, 2008 at 1:12 a.m.
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janesvillean...In Wisconsin you must have "proof" of residence. If the application listed the address as "proof" it must be valid. http://elections.state.wi.us/faq_que_lis...
Oct 16, 2008 at 10:48 p.m.
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Sorry, link didn't go through:
You Don't Need A Home to Vote
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/getinvol...
Oct 16, 2008 at 9:31 p.m.
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Can anyone say typoh!
Oct 16, 2008 at 8:18 p.m.
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I think the Gazette should rethink it's editorial posititon against Wisconsin's Attorney General trying to stop election fraud. Voter fraud should not be ignored or slighted,
Oct 16, 2008 at 7:33 p.m.
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I really do live at McDonalds...I have to work 24/7 to pay my bills.
Oct 16, 2008 at 7:28 p.m.
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You Don't Need a Home to Vote!
Oct 16, 2008 at 4:44 p.m.
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oops a vote is a vote
Oct 16, 2008 at 4:43 p.m.
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Are these names even real or legal? why give a phony address if your not wanted or if you r legal. lol are they alive in record.
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:29 p.m.
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How about a legal homeless shelter address that could be used by the individual?
Oct 16, 2008 at 3:18 p.m.
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I did the whole article. To rephrase my question: How do you vote if you're homeless?
Oct 16, 2008 at 1:59 p.m.
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Pretty simple, "Assistant Director Neil Albrecht says many of the letters will be returned but they needed to be sent to confirm the addresses are undeliverable." Read the whole article.
Oct 16, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.
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There's over 2700 homeless people in Milwaukee. Could some of the people with bad addresses be homeless? I didn't understand the part about letters being sent to people with suspect addresses. It reminds me of the time I caught myself writing an email to my Internet provider saying my connection was down.
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