Small Sample of Philly Voter Rolls Reveals Hundreds of Ineligible Names
The city of Philadelphia is known for many things: The Liberty Bell, cheesesteaks, water ice, and Santa Claus-booing Eagles fans. But if research that I conducted in 2006 is still accurate today, Philadelphia should also be known for all-inclusive voting — that is, voting regardless of whether one has a pulse or is otherwise eligible to cast a vote.
Every two years, states are required to provide data to the Election Assistance Commission regarding their compliance with Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (the section of that statute which ensures voter lists are up-to-date and free of ineligible voters). In 2005, their data collection for Pennsylvania revealed that 102.5% of the citizen voting age population was registered to vote on Election Day 2004.
One might reasonably wonder how it was possible that more people were registered to vote than existed. My 2006 analysis of the city of Philadelphia’s voter list provided some possible answers to that question.
In the spring of 2006, I reviewed portions of the city of Philadelphia’s 2005 voting list. I found that underaged voters, deceased voters, and incarcerated felons were registered to vote and had remained on the voting list, despite the fact that none of them were eligible to vote in Pennsylvania (or, in most cases, anywhere else).
In Pennsylvania, a voter must be 18 or older as of the date of the election to be eligible to vote. Yet at least 130 voters on the list were under the age of 18. Thirty-four of whom had a birth year of 2004 — the year of the election. And 215 voters on the list had a birthdate of: “00-00-00.”
Just looking at the years of birth for the registered voters, I found 54 voters listed with years of birth ranging from 1825 – 1899. While it is possible that a voter born in 1899 could still be alive in 2004 (he or she would be 105), it is clearly impossible that someone born in 1825 would.
Digging a little bit deeper, I was able to find confirmed deceased voters still on the list. I took a sample of 385 registrants born between the years 1900 and 1905, and found that 51 (thirteen percent!) were in fact dead, according to the Social Security Death Index.
I am so tired of seeing smiling (his tan rivals Boehners!)Pennsylvania governor, Ed Rendell on cable, even Fox, acting like he is a moderate Democratic governor. This is the continued incompetence of government in PA under his leadership. Their taxes are sky high too but Fox continues to let him be a mouthpiece for the Thief in Chief without challenging him at all on the governance of his state.
If they drilled down on their absurdly high taxes and voting scandals, his smile would be wiped off…and quick!
I don’t think you are even scratching the surface. You have NO IDEA how bad it is.
I was a poll watcher once (early 90s) at the inner-city Philadelphia precinct where I used to live. They had never had a Republican poll watcher before. The officials there needed my help adding up the three digit numbers from two machines. That’s right – they could not add. Never learned that carrying stuff, they said. They had been there for years, but they had never actually added the total vote numbers for their report.
I think that, until taht day, they had always reported the number they were told to report.
What you are doing is good, but it will make zero difference unless you have someone there watching.
“Law Enforcement” is the Great Enabler for this and MANY other crimes. Be sure to thank them appropriately for the outstanding job they have done in destroying this country!
Interview Philadelphia poll workers. Ask them exactly how elections are conducted in Philadelphia. I don’t think they understand that elections are not supposed to work that way.
The US has become a tyranny of the minority. A minority in both race and idelolgy. How? Using the right of voting and our laws against us–the US. The left has known for decades that once they controlled the MSM and academia and slowly infiltrated state and local government and the federal bureauracy they would control the citizenry. And they did.
The perfect example of this is the SOS project funded by Soros. He who controls the voting in each state-the Secretary of State-controls the voting process. Our dedication to the Constitution and law has been used against us by people who have utter disdain for both. So the result was rampant fraud committed by the left in past elections. And God knows how much or to what extent they will commit fraud in the next two elections.
ACORN, SEIU/AFL-CIO and NEA will undoubtably commit serious fraud in future elections. And since the MSM is fully supporting them they know they are free to do it.
The very corporations and industries that support the MSM through advertising dollars are the very corporations the MSM and the left hates and wants to take over and nationalize. Is this not one of the greatest paradoxes of today?
So what are we going to do about it?
This is anecdotal, but when I lived in Center City I had to register Dem or independent or I would suddenly “fall off” the rolls. My boyfriend now husband refused and could never vote. They would never seem to have him on the rolls! Then he’d go to some judge and she’d tell him “tough luck.”
Meanwhile I can probably still vote in my old district – and I’ve been gone for 6 years. Hell, someone probably votes there for me.
The amount of manufactured votes Dems are producing in “bad areas” where everyone is afraid to question anything – it’s A LOT. Most of North and West Philly apparently has a 110 percent vote for Dems!
SHINE A LIGHT ON THIS
“Then he’d go to some judge and she’d tell him “tough luck.””
Did he ever report that judge?
Aren’t we far past the point where it’s proper to name names? C’mon, folks, no more “some judge” and “poll workers”. NAMES. Shame them, expose them, let them know we’re shining a light under their rock!
We need names, times and dates, documents, witnesses, addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, tape recordings, and videos. And we need them put on YouTube and on other websites.
The liberals have become absolutely out of control. They are fanatical ruthless cult members that lie continuously, in their fierce and relentless quest for national and cultural suicide.
Example: Not one darn thing would have been done about Acorn if everything hadn’t been video’d, and those videos distributed outside of the MSM. Liberal judges, politicians, teachers, and “journalists” have absolutely not the slightest shred of honesty, integrity, fairness, or shame.
And yet as active duty serving overseas, I see my ballot not counted, not even sent, or sent too late to be available to me. Howvever, where is the outcry for “disenfranchized” members?
The guy born in 1825? That’s just Jamie Moyer.
Born in 1825? Maybe. My g-g-grandfather was born in 1833 and he still votes, though not in Philly. His cemetery has one of the best voting records in PA. In fairness, a bigger problem (unless they have fixed it) was people moving from one voting precinct to another and not being scrubbed from the old rolls. No district should ever report 100% of eligible voters have voted. But, if 110% of living residents voting in a precinct doesn’t raise a red flag, nothing will.
“The right to vote in America is sacred and should remain as pure as our Founding Fathers intended.”
They certain never intended for universal suffrage–they restricted the franchise to property owners because they had something to lose if they elected bad representatives. Our current system allows people who get their daily bread from the government the same input as the people whose labor is confiscated by the government to provide it…it’s unfair, and since thereare more of the former than of the latter, it’s unsustainable.
I grew up in Philadelphia; fortunately I left the city over twenty five years ago. I remember when I went to register to vote for the first time; something our school books told us was a great privilege. I was told to register democrat and if I did not I was in big trouble. I refused and registered Republican out of spite. When I showed up to vote for the first time in my life I was told by the obvious democrat poll workers that I could not vote because they could not find my registration. I found out then that I would never never never vote democrat in my life and I have not. Philadelphia is so full of corruption it stinks; my first job in Philadelphia I was approached by the union agent, an Irishman with his breath reeking of whiskey, and told if I did not have the fifty dollars to join the union by next week I would be history at the job. I did not have that much money and could not get it from my parents who did not have it; at that time fifty dollars was a lot of money. I came from a poor working class family, my parents were immigrants; I have never believed that the democrat party or the unions were anything but the enemy of the hard working decent people in this country. Philadelphia and moral/political corrutpion , perfect together.
“I have never believed that the democrat party or the unions were anything but the enemy of the hard working decent people in this country. ”
So true! They are the enemies of the true working class, the military/ veteran and those that make America the great nation that she had been until of late.
yes, Philadelphia is one out of 67 counties in Pennsylvania. Do you really believe that Philadelphia accounts for only 1/67th of the ineligible voters who are on the rolls in the entire state? Philadelphia county has over 10% of the population of the entire state. Even if we assume that the ratio of ineligble voters in Philly holds for the entire state (which is a big assumption IMO) then we only come up with 4,000 ineligible voters on the rolls in the entire state of Pennsylvania. 4,000 ineligible votes out of nearly 6 million cast in 2008. Not saying this isn’t an issue, but this article is done very shoddily at best. So do some more research, and find out what the real ineligible voter numbers are, for all of Philly as well as PA as a whole, rather than simply multiplying Philadelphia by 67 because there are 67 countines in PA.
in 2008 there were 333 murders in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is one of just 67 counties in PA. By the logic of this article, there must have been 333*67 = over 22,000 murders across the state!! And 22,000*50 = over a million across the country!! Wow, who knew that a million Americans were murdered every year!!
The actual numbers:
in 2008, 701 murders in PA and 16272 in the country as a whole.
sigh. American public education FTL.
Great work in one small part of our great republic. There are millions of patriots all over the country who would love to participate in a project like this. Therefore my suggestion for your next post is:
1. Post instructions here on PJM on how others can do the same work you have done.
-How do we obtain the voter rolls?
-How do we obtain the Social Security Deceased list?
-How do we obtain the Incarcerated Felons list?
2. Tell us to whom we can report the obvious errors.
3. Have a place for us to post stories of success! You can call it Section 8.
4. Profit!
How about checking addresses against actually existing addresses maintained by the US Postal Service? I would fully expect a large number that were say in the 3900 block of a street that ends as 3700
DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND! IF THE VOTER ROLES ARE CLEANED UP THEN THE DEMOCRATS WON’T HAVE A CHANCE IN CLOSE ELECTIONS. HOW ELSE DID MR. FRANKEN GET INTO CONGRESS? INELIGIBLE FELONS VOTED OFTEN ENOUGH TO GET HIM OVER THE TOP. THE DEMOCRATS ARE SO DESPARATE THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO CORRUPT THE VOTING PROCESS (AND EVERYTHING ELSE) TO STAY IN POWER AND TO MAINTAIN THEIR GRIP. It is only because of trouble makers like Adams, Beck, Fox News, etc., that anyone knows about it. Wait until 2012 for the presidential election. Obama will be renominated (or would it be Hilary) and you can bet people born in the 1700s will be showing up on the voting roles.
every wrong entry on a voter roll is a wide open invitation for somebody to show up, claim to be that person, NOT be asked for ID (as we know happened at the polling place with the Black Panthers outside of it in 2008), to sign the roll and go and vote.
THIS IS WHY the ACORN/SEIU voter registration drives are so bad, so criminal, so phony. They are loading the rolls with fake names so that on election day they can send out people pretending to be those fake names, who will NOT be asked for their ID (while the white person behind them IS asked for his ID) and will go cast a fake vote for a Democrat.
Remember in the LBJ primary in 1948, a judge later admitted to validating 202 fraudulent ballots right at the last minute before polls closed… the votes were cast in alphabetical order of the names, all were for LBJ, and every one of those people later turned out to have already been dead on election day. LBJ won by less than a hundred votes after having been down by a couple hundred.
This is tried and true, old-fashioned Democrat politics. It is criminal, dictatorial, tyrannical, and it has to stop. But it won’t until our side grows a new pair and GOES AFTER IT.
That’s one of the bazillion reasons we need to REPLACE THE TESTICLE-FREE JOKERS who have been ‘on our side’ for all these years.
During the 2008 election cycle, we saw that Houston had at least 4000 deceased voters still on the voter rolls, voting in two primaries (2006 and 2008) and one mid-term election (2006). Interestingly enough, these correct-thinking zombie-Americans were all registered as Democrats. Most used absentee ballots, but some actually voted in person.
Who knew that zombies were one of the DNC’s protected victim classes?
Yup,
Zombies are a minority and as such are entitled to vote, healthcare, welfare, food stamps, a new car, bills paid, gas in said car and preferential treatment when applying for college entrance, employment (yeh as if!) etc…
As a voter who saw a State Governorship decided by vote fraud (Washington St.), it matters. Fraud corrodes the belief in an above board election. If we can’t trust the results of our elections, we are no better than some 3rd world dictatorship
I lived in Philadelphia most of my life. I know first hand that a lot of the politicians
(Democrats) in South Philly are corrupt. Especially when it come to absentee ballots.
Reminds me that the largest fraud on the U.S. Treasury was W2 forgery (usually with a return address of a prison). An inmate would file a tax return with a w2 saying Joe’s Garage paid him 40K, withheld 15K, and the U.S. owed him a 10K refund. The government was/is incapable of running the simplest of business processes (in this case double entry bookkeeping). They addressed the w2 problem by conscripting the banks (in the 1987 “secrecy in banking act” – which would have been more appropriately titled “the recording and reporting of your secrets act”).
We could do the same here – perhaps offering to contract with two banks in each geography to certify the voting credentials of those they register to accept votes from. With cross-check, validation and auditing (nothing quite like having competing firms check on each other). I wish that I had as much confidence in today’s polls (no matter how well intentioned the poll watchers and workers) as I do in (the lack of issues I have with) my monthly bank, and even credit card statements.
When I worked in the Department of Public Welfare in Philly, we were allowed to accept Voter’s Registration cards as proof of identification. We routinely sent i.d. lacking applicants to City Hall to register. Invariably, they returned the next day with their new cards. I always wondered how people with no proof of anything could be confirmed as eligible voters. The answer–they couldn’t. The registrars didn’t care. Anybody that walked through their door got put on the voting rolls (except maybe self-confessed Republicans, but there sure weren’t any of them coming from our office), including non-citizens and illegal aliens. Another reason why we’re rapidly becoming a “Democratic” People’s Republic.
This problem can be solved easily. Since the only thing Eric Holder / Attorney General is doing is: H.R. 2159, the Disarming American Citizens Act allowing anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder to revoke the Second Amendment rights of ANY American he chooses based on pure “suspicion”; A new so-called “Assault Weapons” Ban, H.R. 45, the “Catch-All” Obama Gun Control Bill, and The U.N.’s so-called “Small Arms Treaty,” which would confiscate and destroy ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms and set the stage for INTERNATIONAL gun confiscation. And since he won’t prosecute terrorists and he doesn’t care about the border problem, he can surely slide on over to Philly to take a peek at this contravention of law? And for God sakes, don’t mention that it sounds like something ACORN would do.
I know what could do to get that ole’ Progressive/Communist bell a tollin’. Just send The New Black Panthers out to various locations with clubs a swingin’, to lay out some intimidation and racial insults. Like they do so well in front of voting booths. Now, I know most people think this would be against the law but they are guessing wrong. Why? Eric Holder is just like the NAACP now. He plays the race card, always and he certainly believes that hate crimes laws have no importance to this Administration. How do we know this? Why was no one prosecuted for arson at Sarah Palin’s Wasilla church last year?. And if NBPP were instead the KKK or just southern rednecks, wouldn’t they be in jail now? What else would you expect from Holder, who was personally involved in obtaining the pardons for the Puerto Rican terrorists and engineering the pardon of Marc Rich, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List; having been convicted, in absentia, for multiple felonies. Holder committed that particular engineering job while he was working for President Clinton and only after Marc Rich’s wife “contributed” a few million to Clinton’s campaign funds and his “presidential library fund”. So, charges were brought against the New Black Panther Party by the Bush Administration. The New Panthers refused to answer the charges, so they were charged by default. Eric Holder allows the charges to be dismissed. Right? Maybe we could get the NAACP to investigate? Come to think of it, maybe that won’t work. Why? Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president and CEO of the NAACP called Anthony “Van” Jones a “National Treasure.” “He is quite simply one of the few Americans in recent years to have generated powerful new ideas that are creating more jobs here.” While Van Jones may have left the White House under a cloud, the NAACP says that’s not his whole story. The group considers him a pioneering hero for the environment and civil rights — so much so that it awarded him one of its highest honors in Feb. 2010, an NAACP Image Award. The NAACP gives out awards to Communists now. The great Martin Luther King is rolling in his grave.
I am so offended by this! Where did these “traitors to America” come from?
HOW are they being ALLOWED to stay in “OUR” White House?
November is going to be a “blessed and thankful month”!
We’ve been going on and on about all the problems with the current admin – it’s certainly a target-rich environment.
If we could solve just one problem – this is the problem to solve. Clean up voting and I bet the rest takes care of itself.
I suspect that Democrats are not the only party that benefits from voting fraud – if that were true, the Republicans would have fixed that when they had a majority. We have to be fair here – the Democrats may be the most professional vote-stealers, but I don’t think they’re the only ones.
Maybe this issue is the linchpin that could connect the Tea Parties – not all the Tea Parties line up with respect to candidates or issues – but I bet they could coordinate on this one.
Fraud *does* destroy free elections.
here in new jersey many cities , especially newark and jersey city, republicans don’t even run, so its democrat vs.democrat. once in jersey city more votes were counted then the entire population of the city. i can’t believe that the democrats are still smarting about bush in 2004, finally the republicans stole one from the dems, and all of a sudden the dems are offended. they,ve been stealing here in NJ all my life. it is thought that our current governor, a republican who won by 100,000 votes, won his election by 260,000 votes. in the end it evens out, as most of our politicians wind up in jail, this includes 3 mayors of newark, 1 U.S senator, numerous congressmen, numerous local officials and council members. it is accepted practice here in jersey.
New Jersey has the best politicians that Money can Buy.
New Jersey politicians are honest; Once they are Bought, they STAY Bought.
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The real question, which you dodge around with a third party anecdote, is how many of these invalid registrations turn into fraudulent votes. Invalid registrations in and of themselves are just lines in a precinct book, they mean nothing until someone tries to vote with them, and this article does not address issues of actual voter fraud. You should also read what the founding fathers wrote about and did in Philadelphia (both in 1776 and 1787). They did not create any such “right to vote”, in fact, all of the states at the time restricted voting to white men with property, usually over the age of 21. It would take 3 constitutional amendments (the 15th, 19th, 26th) over the centuries to expand suffrage. If you want to keep the voting rolls as “pure” as the founding fathers envisioned like you suggest, I can think of a number of people that may object.
Here we go. Anonymous dredges up race. The old standby.
If any honest citizens say that elections should be run honestly, they are pegged as a racist. What does that say about the dishonest? More to the point – the point of this article seemed NOT to be a catalog of fraudlent votes. Isn’t it enough to point out problems with the registration process? Shouldn’t honest people be troubled by dishonest, incorrect or wrong voter rolls? Some people are not it seems.
Come to Minneapolis some time and look up how Senator Al Franken “won” his election. It was illegal votes that put him into office.
Or try Chicago. It’s an intramural sport here.
I suspect there are a lot of cities like this and I know Baltimore is not much better than Philly in this regard. Maryland is another state where being a Republican is nearly impossible. All of this corruption has to be stopped but I have no clue how it will be. Both parties really play into it for their own benefit. Time for a total house cleaning.
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