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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Urban legend

We've had enough real voting problems in Ohio without making new ones up.

Several Enquirer reporters have received dozens of emails inquiring about this one, that has been repeated as fact all over the Internet:
"ACTION ALERT: Blackwell purged Ohio Voter Rolls Oct 1st.- Vote Early"
by KStreetProjector, posted on Daily Kos on Oct. 18 at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/18/85915/109

First of all, Ohio's 88 county Boards of Elections are the government entities that purge rolls of inactive voters -- people who have died, moved or not voted during two federal election cycles (at least four years) -- not the Ohio Secretary of State.

Second, notices to inactive registered voters are mailed by county boards -- not the state -- and are typically sent out in odd election years.

"If you look at the blog, it's discussing something someone overheard at a lunch at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.," said James Lee, spokesman for Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. "It's just ridiculous."

That being said, if anyone thinks their voter registration was wrongly purged, please let us know.


2 Comments:

at 3:15 PM, October 24, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anyon who is concerned can go the th Board of elections web site for their county and re-check their eligibility in about 10 seconds.

 
at 4:48 PM, October 24, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

This has been an area of problems in the recewnt past. Purges and Registrations were used in 2004 to eliminate the effects of Democratic voters. Here is one example: Lucas County (Lucas was used because it had so many "irregularities"that Blackwell was forced to document problems thus providing information):

-October 4, 2004 was filing deadline for new voter registrations. At that point there were approximately 20,000 unprocessed voter registration applications with less than a month before the election. One mail tray containing 4,500-7,000 (estimates vary) unprocessed “Project Voter” registrations were discovered on or about October 18,2004.

SOURCE: SOS Investigation pg 10

http://www.sos.state.oh.us:80/sos/ElectionsVoter/OhioElections.aspx?Section=1008

***Of interest here is information obtained from the SOS website entitled ElectionsVoter/results 2003 and 2004 which show the # of registered voters number change from ‘03-’04 was 10,260 in Lucas County: reg voters 2003 in Lucas=289,877 ; registered voter in 2004=300,137.

http://www.co.lucas.oh.us/boe/electionnov04.pdf

http://www.co.lucas.oh.us/boe/November2003_summary.pdf

 
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