Will Foreclosures Affect Voting Rolls?

[babylonsister]

Will Foreclosures Affect Voting Rolls?
Ohio Election Officials Worry About Voters Still Registered At Houses They've Lost

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 6, 2008


(AP) Election officials worry that the state's home foreclosure problem will pose a problem this November for voters still registered at their former address, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Voters in pivotal Ohio with outdated addresses face possible pre-election challenges and trips to multiple polling places. They also are more likely to cast provisional ballots that might not be counted.

"It's a real issue," said Daniel Tokaji, an Ohio State University law professor who specializes in elections. He wonders whether foreclosures might explain the increasing percentages of provisional votes cast between 2004 and Ohio's latest election, the presidential primary in March.

Ohio provided President Bush with an 118,000-vote victory in 2004, giving him the electoral votes he needed to win the election.

Nearly 3,700 people are registered to vote at Columbus addresses the city lists as vacant, according to records maintained by the city's code-enforcement office and the Franklin County Board of Elections, The Columbus Dispatch reported.

The number of voters on the move is higher than that. The Franklin County Board of Elections sent notices in January to about 27,000 residents who had filled out change-of-address forms but failed to update their voter registrations.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/06/politics/main4235328.shtml

[glowing]

1. Once again.. news people lying.. Bush stole Ohio.. and he purged many

people off the voting record.. and had some very sleazy people who helped steal the vote.. who should be in jail. Easy thing.. make sure you are registered correctly this summer... make sure everyone checks on their registration ... and make sure people who need ID's have them in state's that require a poll tax.

[babylonsister]

2. Your argument, while fine, has nothing to do with this article.

I can see so many foreclosures causing problems for people who think they're registered; so can the writer. Think about this...


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/legal-disenfranchisement-by-dday-lot-of.html

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All of a sudden you're going to hear that these families forced out of their homes and relocated across the country are actually fraudsters trying to steal the election for Obama. The very fact of vacancy at the addresses where these people are registered makes hundreds of thousands of people prime suspects for voter caging. And you can be sure that re-registering isn't paramount on their minds, either. In battleground states like Nevada, one out of every 120 or so homes is in foreclosure right now. This seems like a huge under-the-radar issue that is receiving literally no attention.

[bluesmail]

3. whoa I never thought of that. Answer: Probableeee

[AndyTiedye]

4. Mostly for Democrats, of Course

[tbyg52]

5. Yes, absolutely.

Another case of heads I win, tails you lose.

One set of rules for "us," another set for "them."

Unfortunately, "them" is us.

[tbyg52]

6. Yes.

K&R in hopes of mitigating the damage for a Democratic victory.

[tbyg52]

7. Sunday morning kick. nt

[babylonsister]

8. I don't know why this isn't more worrisome to people. Maybe

because there's nothing we can do about it? We should be brainstorming on what can be done.

[tbyg52]

9. I don't understand either.

It's one more way to get people off the rolls.