he expects about 36,000 to 38,000 residents to vote in the March 2 Democratic
and Republican primary elections.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Registered Voters
Nick Georgiou (LMT) reports that 105,000 people are registered to vote locally. But our elections administrator doesn't see many actually voting.
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Who made the joke that back when Ciro Rodriguez was running for Congress he had an excellent chance to win because both City cemetaries are in his district (given alot of "registered" voters are interred there)?
Compare the turnout in Pct 218 & other precincts if you want to know the answer.
en Laredo, hasta los muertos votan
Imagine how smoothly elections would go if this kind of crap were taken care of before elections(locally and nationally).
Call it a sensitive issue, but is there any efficient/effective way of determining los vivos from los muertos, before the elections?
the problem is, once you're registered to vote, you stay registered unless you pull up stakes, move somewhere else & register there. There's no process to take you off the rolls if you die. And there should be.
I know my mom was still on the voter rolls years after she passed away (but no, she never voted). I know it's the popular thing to blame Democrats for registering dead people, because the real reason most dead people appear on the rolls (they were voters while alive & then had the audacity to die before the new cards were sent out) is *so* boring.
As for dead people voting: If you vote by mail, then die before Election Day, your ballot is (or should be) destroyed. However, if you vote during Early Voting, but die before Election Day, your vote still counts. So yes, dead people will appear to have voted, but it's not automatically election fraud.
And that's what burns my biscuits, DG,having the deceased left on voter registration rolls. What's from stopping "fulanito" or "fulanita" in charge of those lists from having my great-great-great-great abuelita "voting" for the candidate of choice?
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