Dead voters probably account for 4-12% of the "votes", and probably higher in Democrat cities.
Posted on 11/02/2009 3:41:46 AM PST by Man50D
Regardless of how lively an election season might be, a new study shows that more 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead.
Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they no longer live.
The analysis was conducted by the Aristotle International Inc., a technology company specializing in political campaigns, developing software and databases for politicians.
In total that means about 8.9 percent of all registered voters fall under the category of “deadwood” voters on the rolls, the term for voters who should no longer be eligible to vote in a precinct.
Not only does this raise concerns about potential voter fraud, but from the interest of campaign consultants, ineligible or expired voters could lead to a waste of resources, said John Aristotle Phillips, CEO of Aristotle.
“Some states have bigger problems than others,” Phillips said. “With deadwood exceeding one in seven votes in some counties, candidates might as well spend a day a week campaigning in the cemetery.”
Among the findings, the study showed that states with the most “deadwood” voters were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming.
* In Massachusetts, 116,483 registered voters are dead, 3.38 percent of the state’s total of registered voters. Another 538,567, or 15.6 percent, had moved to an area outside of where they are registered to vote.
* In New Hampshire, there are 18,816 dead people on the voter registration rolls, or 2.5 percent of the total registered voters. There are 105,472 voters that have moved outside of the area where they are registered to vote.
* The analysis showed that Washington State had 27,267 dead voters who were still registered, just 0.7 percent of the total number of registered voters. Another 332,510 had moved out of the area they are registered to vote in, or 8.73 percent of the total registered voters.
* West Virginia had 72,717 dead voters on the registration rolls, or 6.74 percent of the total registered voters in the state. Another 141,352 voters had moved, or 13 percent.
* In Wyoming, 7,723 registered voters (3.68 percent) are dead, while 45,547 (21.69 percent) had moved.
* The state with the fewest problems percentage wise is North Carolina. There, 3.5 percent of registered voters are dead – 216,036. Meanwhile, 30,888 had moved out of the designated voting area, or about 0.5 percent.
Nationally, 1.87 percent of registered voters are dead, while 7.2 percent of voters do not live where they are registered.
“Deadwood on voters rolls complicates the electoral process and can cause problems like fraud and vote miscounts,” Phillips said. “It always creates a perception of low voter turnout. It gets down to this: by depressing turnout, dead voters make the rest of us look bad.”
Fine, they can identify how many dead registered voters there are. What I want to know is how many of them voted in the last few elections. They never seem to be able to report that, even though the fact that someone voted is a public record.
Throw in another few million completely false ACORN registered voters and you have the population of a small nation.
“It gets down to this: by depressing turnout, dead voters make the rest of us look bad.””
Quite depressing.
“dead voters make the rest of us look bad.”
They all voted for 0bama, many will vote for Owens in NY23, Deeds in VA, and Corzine in NJ.
Now, when they found all these dead voters, the question is, did they remove them from the roles, or did they just leave then there.
Dead voters probably account for 4-12% of the "votes", and probably higher in Democrat cities.
7.2 percent of voters do not live where they are registered.ACORN still working I see wonder how many mexican names are listed and live in Mexico?.
Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they no longer live."
And, I'd bet that 90% or more of them are democrats. Most likely the ACORN voters that threw the election to Obambi along with a few other useless idiots like Al Frankin.
This of course is by design. If states wanted to, they could make voting as secure as the lottery.
Does anyone know what’s involved in cleaning up the voter rolls? 2 to 3% is the difference in most elections!
However, there are 10 rooms in my house; 9 in Mom's, and 15 in our neighbor's house.
Oddly enough these figures almost exactly match the margin by which Obama was elected.....
Perhaps Obozo didn’t really win. I often wonder about that.
I have said for awhile now all voter rolls should be purged and everybody needs to re-register. They are totally corrupted.
Elections as they are now are a joke.
Exactly. Instead, they take every opportunity to create ways to ensure it's not.
Even if they're cleaned up, all it takes is someone like Ohio's Secretary of State (at the time of the election) Jennifer Brunner to ignore the cleaned voter rolls and institute the groundwork for fraudulent voting as we saw in 2008. Brunner allowed tens of thousands of questionable ballots to stand, ignoring requirements to match new voter names against Ohio BMV and Social Security administration records. Early voting in Ohio required simply showing a utility bill from the previous 2 or 3 years as proof of residency. I could have voted in Ohio in 2008, despite having moved out of Ohio in March of that year.
Essentially, Brunner and her friends at ACORN (she has ties to that organization as well) fraudulently gave Ohio to Obama.
This is so bogus. How hard can it be to divise a voting system that is secure. How about ink on the finger? Go one step further and use the ink to put fingerprint in the voter registration books. The system is screwed up because the people in charge want it to be screwed up. Time for that to change.
Funny, they all live, er, “reside” in Chicago................
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