The Dead Just Keep On Voting


Isn’t modern medicine wonderful?  A hundred years ago, the average life expectancy in the United States was 47 years.  In 2009, the federal government recently announced that it is 78 years.  And, now, in an age when NASA has machines roving Mars, many states are extending the voting life of citizens for years after they are medically pronounced dead.

There are 116,000 dead eligible voters in Massachusetts.  And in Florida, one major newspaper recently investigated and reported that almost 15,000 dead Floridians are still hanging around on the election rolls – just six weeks before one of the most vicious and important election cycles in our history.  Can it be the sun?  Most States have similar statistics.  Every two years, states must report to the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) information about the integrity and accuracy of their voter rolls.  The latest report is not good news for our democracy – or our international reputation.  South Dakota, Texas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Indiana report in excess of a dozen counties with more registered voters than breathing human beings old enough to vote.  West Virginia, Maryland, Iowa and North Carolina also reported having eligible deceased voters on their rolls.  The list goes on and on.  And so does the real risk that these voters will have illegal votes registered in their names.  Close races, like the Franken/Coleman race in Minnesota can be decided on just a handful of votes.  We may have to go to purple thumbprints at this rate.  Hugo Chavez must be howling at this American disgrace.

Democrats seem to be suspiciously inept at cleaning out the rolls.  The Ohio Secretary of State is not at all anxious about the fact that nearly 5,800 departed Ohioans are still registered to vote.  A partisan Democrat, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is more concerned about the living – Spanish speaking only voters.  She has cooperated with the Department of Justice to force Cuyahoga County to spend $500,000 on bilingual ballots to accommodate about 6,000 non-English speakers.

In November, 2009 political appointee Julie Fernandes reportedly told the entire assembled Department of Justice Voting Section that the Obama Administration would not enforce the list maintenance legal requirements of Section 8 of the  National Voter Registration Act.  Fernandes reportedly said, “we do not have any interest in enforcing that part of the law.”  Given the example of Obama vs. Arizona, one might assume that supervisors of elections are thinking hard about actually enforcing federal law over the objection of, dare I say it … federal officials of the voting section of the Department of Justice.

Indeed, if you happen to be in a Democrat-led state, with major cities and states with a record of vote-fraud – like Missouri, the Obama DOJ will happily dismiss lawsuits where there are actual admitted violations of the law, like the New Black Panther case.  Last year, it accommodated Missouri for failing to purge its voter rolls even though a third of its counties had more registered voters than voting-age residents.

This scandalous outrage must be cleaned up immediately.  Otherwise, we run the real risk that Secretary of State Clinton will report us to the United Nations.  Like the poor folks in Arizona, local citizens and groups around the country who may have to organize, sue and act aggressively to put the dead to rest, politically speaking.  The Motor Voter Act provides that ordinary citizens can sue to force a clean-up of the voter rolls.  We could call it a Motor Voter Militia.  Of course, you have to be living to sue.  Given the abundance of legal talent now tapping their fingers in unemployed America, this might be a new growth area for our red-meat Barristers.  There are even some 1-800 numbers still available.

Tom R. Spencer is a Republican lawyer from Florida.



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Anyone who can't speak English should not be allowed to vote.

Tbone (Diary) Tuesday, September 28th at 10:32AM EST (link)

How did they pass the citizenship test. Oh, an anchor baby that grew up in an illegal alien household?

Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.

 

Voter registration

rdelbov Tuesday, September 28th at 10:34AM EST (link)

has been an area of interest to me since the early 1980s. I helped to register thousands of people in Shelby county in the during the Reagan campaigns.

Here’s what has changed.

1. Under Motor voter registration forms were changed The old forms had cancellation of one’s previous registration involved in the registration process. Most states had the reguirement that if you registered to vote you needed to cancel your old registration. So if registered in TN a form was sent to say CA to cancel your old registration. Not so anymore. The one page no hassle form does not allow for that.

2. We also show in the early 1990′s the extreme politicization of voting and registration process. At state and local levels we show many election officials who were more concerned with the politics of voting then the honesty of the voting system. We many states and locales fight the purging of voter rolls. In the old days if a person did not vote in Presidential elections-roughly five to eight years of not voting you got purged. Not so much anymore in some areas. So you places like Detroit and Philly with 125% of the voting age population being registered. I think Ben Franklin is still registered in Philly. In many democratic areas the last good purge was done by Stalin in the 1930s.

There are a series of federal mandates for updated statewide/national voter files. In the aftermath of Bush/Gore the federal government gave a lot of money to the states to update voter systems. There was a just one string attached-the states had to compile a statewide bank of voters. So if someone registered in Cleveland you could delete the same person from the voter rolls in Akron. Somehow many Red states and republican SOS’s have attempted to get this going. The Blue staters are trying to delay updating their systems and one can only wonder why.

Motor Voter and Provisional Voting

adair Thursday, September 30th at 11:18PM EST (link)

deliberatly encourage fraud.

At our Election Judges’ Education session the other morning, someone asked what should be done if he encountered a voter application for a person he knew to be dead.

Answer: ” It used to be that if you knew for sure, like if it was your neighbor and you knew she died last year, we wanted you to write that on the application and then sign your name and then we would look up the records and take the person off the rolls.

“But NOW THEY DON’T WANT US TO DO THAT.”

This is a highly Democratic County, and one can only imagine why the rules have changed. It makes me nervous to realize that, although Republicans may be more motivated to vote, the Secy of State and the County Clerk are hardcore Democrats … the counters of the votes.

 
 

None dare call them ghouls.

johnt Tuesday, September 28th at 10:43AM EST (link)

Come on now, let’s not be stuffy about this. Are we going to deny the dead their civil rights, are conservatives and Repubs guilty of Deadism? Are we Tea Bagging deadists?
The graveyard vote could be pivotal in this election, get the base out of their coffins and get them in line with millions of illegals, never mind the musty odors.
I wouldn’t throw all standards out though, anybody who died before 1850 should be declared ineligible to vote. As a consolation Democrat volunteers may cease flattening the tires of Republican cars and vans, and plant flowers, at public expense, on these graves.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

Great Message to us all, so....

mkozikowski (Diary) Tuesday, September 28th at 11:10AM EST (link)

Any Ideas on how we start?

This has to be addressed right now!

I am ready.
what can a citizen do to force their state to clean up it’s records?

I too am ready

annas Tuesday, September 28th at 1:12PM EST (link)

Where do we start?

 
 

The "Thriller" Vote? Michael Jackson would be proud.

tngal (Diary) Tuesday, September 28th at 11:35AM EST (link)

Now I’ve Thriller tumbling around in the brain. Tens of thousands of zombies dancing to Thriller. Arms and legs just a boppin’ all the way to the voting booth. ‘ Well, if you’re voting dem you’re voting with a dead brain anyway so…….

 

Death-phobia

jorgen Wednesday, September 29th at 8:00AM EST (link)

And not unexpected, like the brain-dead people, the dead all vote for the Democrats.

 

This Scares The "Living" Daylights Out Of Me

bclare Wednesday, September 29th at 10:35AM EST (link)

I’ve emailed Rush, Hannity, and Levin. No one is talking about it. As this thing gets closer you can bet the dems will cheat!!! They are conceding the house but they will cheat in one or two select senate races to maintain their majority. RedStaters please, raise the roof on this one. The dems will cheat because they can not win in the arena of ideas about where this country is headed.

 

Stop the brain dead first.

southcoast Wednesday, September 29th at 10:58AM EST (link)

Based on the outcome of the last election, Americans have demonstrated a propensity to vote based on the Pavlovian responses programmed into them. These brain dead voters based on “what can I get” or “how I feel” rather than what is better for America or the republic. As decades have passed, people seem to be brain numbed to the reality of what government is supposed to do rather than what has been done with it. When a rifle is used for murder rather hunting, people react by bleating guns must be banned. When government is used to confiscate working peoples’ income on behalf of certain victim groups, the same sheep bleat “more!”

 

2008 Election

2warabnvet Wednesday, September 29th at 11:11AM EST (link)

After the last election the Republicans in North Carolina sued to get ineligible voters off the rolls – and even identified thousands. The suit was thrown out by our fine judiciary.

 

"Frankened"

robmull Wednesday, September 29th at 2:18PM EST (link)

If there is not a “conservative” effort to fine-tune our voting system, the “liberal” will [now-a-days] always get the “majority” of real, dead, double or fictitious votes, to barely squeek by. I call it being “Frankened,” and that’s exactly what was the profoundly questionable deciding factor for “libs” in their tyrannical 2008 “coup” of our very recently battered, fragile, honerable American “dream”. It’s about to happen again if we’re not completely focused on who’s who in the future voting process; and make appropriate changes and considerations at each stage.

 

As many as the dead....

wayneepalmer Wednesday, September 29th at 6:04PM EST (link)

…are the soldiers whose votes will be killed to elect Demoncraps.

True peace between two enemies has only ever been acheived when one side has utterly defeated the other…if you doubt this truth visit Nagasaki sometime.

that's the other disgrace

adair Thursday, September 30th at 11:22PM EST (link)

Every state has had 6 years to correct the mis-mailing of absentee ballots to Service members overseas; and still they’re dragging their feet and being “unable” to get the ballots mailed out 45 days before the election.

This is just plain deliberate and outrageous.