Voter Registration Errors May Leave YOU Unable to Vote…
Four more years of this? It could happen…
Are you one of thousands of voters nationwide that will have to reestablish your voter registration to vote in the upcoming local, State and Presidential elections? You might have to due to the new electronic state voter registration system. Click here to find out how to validate your voter registration status.
In Alabama, scores of voters are being labeled as convicted felons on the basis of incorrect lists. In six Alabama counties, there are more people registered to vote than there are residents of legal age to do so.
In Seattle, 24,000 felons were sent absentee ballots even though convicted felons are not allowed to vote by law. In once of the cases in Seattle, the felon admitted that she had been voting for over 10 years despite her felony drug conviction.
Michigan must restore thousands of names it illegally removed from voter rolls over residency questions, a judge ruled this week.
In Wisconsin, the database was wrong one out of five times when it flags voters, sometimes for data discrepancies as small as a middle initial or a typo in a birth date. When the six members of the state elections board — all retired judges — ran their registrations through the system, four were incorrectly rejected because of mismatches. The issues in Wisconsin may affect more than 10,000 voter registrations.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a challenge to 200,000 Ohio voters whose registration data conflicted with other state records. Ohio is a swing state.
These issues were discovered as the once locally managed lists of voter registrations were migrated to new state wide electronic databases, managed by each state. In over 30 states, this will be the first Presidential election that the new database has been used. The database ferrets out voter registration inconsistencies by validating individual voter data such as your name, your state driver’s license records or your Social Security records to determine voter eligibility. In addition, each state can decide to use other matching criteria like nicknames. So, if your name is Johnathan and your DL says your name is Johnny, you might not get to vote. I think that everyone can agree this year, your vote is critically important. So, make sure you can vote, then make sure you do vote on November 4th. Better yet? Send in your absentee ballot today and let your voice be heard now.
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