Alabama removes dead from voter lists (liberal graveyard off the rolls)

ABC News ^ | 7.31.02

[mhking]

Ala. Removes Dead From Voter Lists
Alabama Completes 13-Year Project to Clear Dead People From Voter Rolls

The Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. July 31 — Alabama's voter registration rolls once were so loaded with dead people they became fodder for Jay Leno's monologue on the "Tonight Show."

The graveyard vote no longer exists, though.

The state just completed a 13-year project to clean up the voter rolls by removing more than 150,000 voters who had died. Another 50,000 were taken off because they had moved away.

"Clean voter lists are essential to honest elections. Our voter lists are as clean now as they've been in 100 years," Secretary of State Jim Bennett said.

Bennett, a former state senator, sponsored the legislation in 1989 that called for voter rolls to be cleaned up and computerized. A lack of funding stretched out the project nine years longer than planned.

It was completed last week, making Alabama one of 40 states with completely computerized records.

"We have no dead ones voting now that we know of," said Lanelle Turner, president of the Alabama Association of Boards of Registrars.

In 1987, more than a dozen counties had more registered voters on the paper-and-pencil rolls than adults living in the county. State officials were concerned some people might use the names of the dead to vote more than once.

Then, they were embarrassed the night Leno held up a Birmingham News headline about Bennett's legislation: "No more dead to vote in state."

Bennett's legislation set up the state Office of Voter Registration and required state agencies to notify election officials of all deaths and felony convictions so the names could be removed.

Thursday marks 11 years since the first county came on line with the Alabama Voter Information Network; the last two signed on last week.

Since its beginning, the project has removed about 10 percent of the names from Alabama's voter rolls.

[facedown]

Yeah, but they just moved them to Chicago.

[dead]

Beat you to it.

[Coop]

Gov. Siegelman just dropped four more points in the polls. :-)

[Dakmar]

So when will the aCLU file suit on behalf of the living impaired?

[Quilla]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Khepera]

You should have to show a picture ID to vote. (Flame suit on)

[hellinahandcart]

Well, you're going to sue, aren't you?

[F.J. Mitchell]

"living impaired" ROFLMAO

I was dreaming up a good comment, but "living impaired" (where the democrats greatest strength and most faithful voters lie) tops anything I can even imagine. You win the blue ribbon.

[epluribus_2]

If all states did this then W would not have needed Florida.

[awelliott]

Gov. Siegelman just dropped four more points in the polls. :-)

}8^D

[F.J. Mitchell]

"You should have to show a picture ID to vote"

Agreed, and also prove that you are alive- Everyone except Dead that is. If he proves he is alive it will mean he isn't dead and if he isn't dead it will mean that he is voting as a non-living impaired individual, and therefore under false pretenses. Which is dead wrong.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Alabama is leading the nation in many good ways - here's another one. Would to God every state in the nation would do this. Would to God a NATIONAL LAW was passed to force the Demonrat controlled states to do it. (I know, I know - but in this case the Rats control the elecion fraud and that should be a FEDERAL mandate to ensure voting integrity - a JOKE in most Demonratically controlled locales.)

[F.J. Mitchell]

That's a fact.

[scholar]

they just moved them to Chicago.

Are you insinuating there is vote fraud in Cook County? As a former resident of Cook County I'm shocked!!!

[Southack]

Alabama has also recently something else rather clever to cut down on voter fraud.

The state has mailed "do not forward" postcards to the addresses of all registered voters. The cards for people who no longer live at their registered address are then returned by the Post Office to the state, where that registration entry is removed from the list of voters.

It's a simple concept, but the most difficult thing to forge is a valid home address. Vote-thieves can no longer pretend to be someone who moved out of state or died, and they can't use the same real address or phony address, since the Post Office would either return the postcard from the phony address or think it rather odd that they delivered 750 state "do not forward" voter registration cards to the same apartment.

This leaves only one realistic way for vote-thieves to operate; they can still vote "for" the remaining registered voters who don't show up to vote themselves on election day (meaning that the vote-thieves have to wait until very close to the close of the polls to see who hasn't shown up to vote).

[facedown]

Are you insinuating there is vote fraud in Cook County?

There's more fraud now than even when the real mayor Daley was in power!

[TheBigB]

I thought the correct term was "metaphysically challenged" 8^)