Voter Fraud: Dead People Rule!

Almost 20% of West Virginians eligible to vote are either dead or have moved.

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Five States with the Most Dead People Eligible to Vote:
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming.

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FUN TIME IN ACORN TOWN:
DEAD PEOPLE RULE!

Are you lonely when you go to the polling place? Want some company? Perhaps, you’d like to take along a dead “friend” to vote with you.

That’s a scenario that’s becoming more possible across the United States. A combination of old voter registration lists that still contain the names of dead voters and voters who have moved, new “Motor Voter” legislation, laws in some states which require no ID to vote and election officials who are overworked or look the other way is a recipe for voter fraud.

In Marion County, IN (Indianapolis), there were more voters registered for the 2008 election than lived in the county. Other counties reported similar findings.

This may have contributed to reliably-red Indiana moving over to the Democrat column in the presidential race. Ohio also had a flood of voter fraud allegations, arrests and convictions. Ohio also turned from blue to red in 2008.

From More than 3 Million Registered Voters are Dead, 12 Million More Ineligible, Analysis Finds:

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.

Shouldn’t there be a name for dead voters?

In southern WV, they were always called ‘Democrats’. In the last 30 years, a number of southern WV Democrat politicians have been convicted of voter fraud–and many times, a dead person was involved.

How many dead people are still eligible to vote?

“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.”

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FAST FUN FACT: In WV, almost 20% of registered voters are either dead or have moved. 6.74% are no longer living; 13% are no longer living where they are registered.

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For example, in southern West Virginia, a Democratic stronghold, the old joke was “to vote early and often”–especially if that ‘voter’ was dead.

But it’s not only WV. For a case in point of the shenanigans that can occur, we only have to look at today’s election in New York’s 23rd congressional district.

Emails went out to volunteers for Organizing for America (formerly Barack Obama’s campaign tool before he turned it over to the Democrat National Committee) asking them to call three “neighbors” about whether they were going to vote. Among the questions to ask and info to note was whether the person called was deceased.

From Organizing for America Potential Privacy Invasion, Robbery, Vote Fraud, and Worse in NY-23:

UPDATE 2: Thanks to a commenter’s nudge, I looked at the online form an OFA caller would complete after a call (boxes added by me; click to enlarge) –

Note the presumptuous “neighbor” language. More importantly, note the instant feedback OFA could receive that person is deceased.

Allegations of voter fraud have increased as new laws have been put on the books that hamper election officials from policing the polls.

Another problem is the number of lawsuits by Democrat Party affiliates which have targeted election officials doing their jobs attempting to purge voter registration rolls of dead people and those no longer eligible to vote.

New York and New Jersey’s already had allegations of voter fraud where ACORN or Working Family Party (ACORN’s affiliate) workers have turned in ballots of people who said that they never applied for absentee ballots.

The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund has already noticed the problem in New Jersey [Chris Christie's Next Case: Who Stole My Election?]

Plenty of reasons exist for suspecting absentee fraud may play a significant role in tomorrow’s Garden State contests. Groups associated with Acorn in neighboring Pennsylvania and New York appear to have moved into the state. An independent candidate for mayor in Camden has already leveled charges that voter fraud is occurring in his city. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party in New Jersey is taking advantage of a new loosely written vote-by-mail law to pressure county clerks not to vigorously use signature checks to evaluate the authenticity of absentee ballots, the only verification procedure allowed.

The state has received a flood of 180,000 absentee ballot requests. On some 3,000 forms the signature doesn’t match the one on file with county clerks. Yet citing concerns that voters would be disenfranchised, Democratic Party lawyer Paul Josephson wrote New Jersey’s secretary of state asking her “to instruct County Clerks not to deny applications on the basis of signature comparison alone.”

Is there any good news?

The fact that it’s recognized–at least in some quarters–as a problem is one bright spot. Anther is, that if you live in NC, you’re in good hands.

The state with the least amount of problems? North Carolina, with only 4% either dead or having moved somewhere else other than where they are registered.

MONEY QUOTE: “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.”
–Source: More than 3 Million Registered Voters are Dead, 12 Million More Ineligible, Analysis Finds

What can be done?

Voters need to get involved in process. Be informed. Contact election officials. Let them know someone is watching.

Corruption is more apt to flourish under the cover of darkness.

MORE: The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud and ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”

UPDATE @ 1010 110309: Cartoon below provided by Free Republic reader, Irish Pennant:

ALSO: A host of good comments and some good links to voter fraud stories at Free Republic comments on this article.

by Mondo Frazier
image: SodaHead
h/t: Chip Saunders, Freedom’s Phoenix

Tags: ACORN, dead people, Democrats, registration rolls, voter fraud, WFP, Working Family Party, WV