Dead Voters Found in Maryland
While Eric Holder is busy preventing Florida from removing ineligible foreigners from the voter rolls, citizen groups are finding problems with the voter rolls elsewhere. Election Integrity Maryland has found dead voters infesting the rolls in the state’s three largest jurisdictions. They say:
Despite assertions by the Maryland State Board of Elections that voter registration records are kept up-to-date, the non-partisan watchdog group Election Integrity Maryland (EIM) has discovered names of deceased voters in Prince George’s County who remain on the voter rolls, as well as names of voters who have moved or who have duplicate registrations. Some voters are registered out of vacant lots, post office boxes and Mail Box stores.
Similar irregularities were discovered earlier this year by EIM in Montgomery and Baltimore Counties, and challenges have been filed in these jurisdictions as well. EIM plans to submit more challenges in other counties in the near future.
Don’t expect the Justice Department suddenly to start enforcing Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act against Maryland and demand removal of dead and ineligible voters. That wouldn’t help with the main task at hand – re-election.
Perhaps there is some truth to the rumor about moving the Tomb Of The Unregisterd Voter from Chicago to Baltimore.
This rush to remove dead voters from the rolls is just another attempt by mean spirited Republicans to disenfranchise democrat voters. They know that the dead are the most reliable democratic voters. What kind of country will we have that denies the vote to someone just because they’re dead. Being from Chicago, Obama knows the importance of voting rights for the dead.
I can verify this one…..my ex-husband died in Iraq in 2006 and it took me 5 years to get his name off the voter rolls in Montgomery County, MD. The government certainly didn’t take any action after his death, so I “reminded” them for a couple of election cycles in a row before they finally took some action. No photo ID required, either…..sigh.
With the review of voter rolls in Florida and Maryland, it would interest me a great deal if someone would cross-correlate the names with votes cast in the last one and two election cycles. I want to know not just how many dead voters are carried, but is anyone showing up to claim the ballot. That ought to be accessible.
I moved to VA in 2010. So happy to be gone from Royal Blue MD. Never worried about my vote being lost–I’m a Republican. I never assumed it was even COUNTED in the 30 years I lived in the state…