tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post2448815874119010130..comments2023-12-29T05:24:43.830-06:00Comments on Kay Brooks: Ghostbusting the voter rollsKay Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06073075957511329333noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-66021568906510771862008-10-10T21:16:00.000-05:002008-10-10T21:16:00.000-05:00I see dead people.I see dead people.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09173642175294245534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186797.post-21641018052326133732008-10-10T18:15:00.000-05:002008-10-10T18:15:00.000-05:00Making sure there aren't any errors in voter rolls...Making sure there aren't any errors in voter rolls is always a good thing, though it's worth noting that the Social Security database is hardly a highly accurate way to do that - NC, for instance, is going to <A HREF="http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/n_c_will_stop_checking_ssns_after_election" REL="nofollow">stop verifying new voters via SSN after this election,</A> because of the many errors in the database. If the death index is more accurate (which one would hope it is), though, more power to them.<BR/><BR/>It should also be observed, however, that the ACORN case is hardly as serious a case as the the dead voting would be. It's an issue of voter registration fraud - that is, of submitting information for new "voters" on the rolls who, because they're glaringly fake, can't actually go to the polls.<BR/><BR/>For a clearer distinction between the two than I can probably make, see <A HREF="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Two_kinds_of_fraud.html" REL="nofollow">here.</A><BR/><BR/>(There is, though, the real problem of fake registration forms slowing down the approval of real ones - which, given Obama's superior get-out-the-vote operation, should concern Dems more than Republicans, at least on the partisan side of things.)N.S. Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00594978546540226304noreply@blogger.com