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| Albuquerque dog becomes registered voter |
| 2012-03-02 |
| An Albuquerque man says he successfully registered his dog to vote in Bernalillo County. The dog owner said he saw a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico's campus a few weeks ago and decided to see how easy it would be to register his dog to vote. He said he was trying to expose the problems with the registration system. He said he just received the dog's voter registration card in the mail Wednesday, and it was way too easy. "They should verify. Somebody should have verified this information and somebody should have come out and took a look at exactly who it was. But I made up a birth date, and I made up a social security number and I had a voter registration card in my hand for Buddy two weeks later," the dog owner said. KOB Eyewitness News 4 contacted the Bernalillo County Clerk's Office. They said state law does not require proof of your social, your date of birth, or even your name. But they said what this man did is voter fraud. They also said they strictly look over all the applications that come from third-party registration agencies before sending out registration cards. But this time, Buddy the dog made it through the system. "We're going to have a lot of people that are registered to vote that shouldn't be able to vote," the dog owner said. He said he has no intention of voting under Buddy's name. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Just as long as he is not a democrat. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-02 14:39 |
| #8 Kobach in Kansas has written and the legislator has passed tough new voting laws including picture I.D. Of course, it will be challenged in the courts and Sebellius's Kansas Supremes will rule it unconstitutional. |
| Posted by: bman 2012-03-02 10:07 |
| #7 Actually they're getting serious about it. The current Secretary (R) was elected by the largest state margin in 2010 because her predecessor overtly and publicly did nothing to insure the troops got their ballots in a timely matter. Been a lot of screaming and whining about cleaning the rolls due to the point in the first link that 10 percent of registrations were possible fraud. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-03-02 08:54 |
| #6 Another reason the US is sinking into the third world. Politicians just don't care about vote integrity if it might favor them. The Republicans should put vote integrity issues on every state ballot trying to clean things up. Its probably too late now but getting it onto the next election ballot shouldn't be hard. Require ID to vote at a minimum. Perhaps something like requiring ID 6 months ahead of time to get an absentee ballot. Strike everyone from the rolls who does not vote in two elections in a row and have them reregister. Felony charges filed against anyone submitting false names or involved in any election hijinx (including voter intimidation). Separate ballots for national and state elections and have the national ballot a basic scantron style that can be filled out easily and read in seconds. Stuff like that. Basic stuff like that. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-03-02 08:52 |
| #5 Let him vote; would probably be an improvement over the average voter. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-03-02 07:46 |
| #4 Do they have Voter ID in New Mexico? To quote another registered voter, "Hmm, I knew I should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque." |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2012-03-02 07:40 |
| #3 In Australia, the voter rolls are publicly released. One of my relatives decided to do a market campaign for his business using the local voter roll. He discovered in the list major errors. He was quite disturbed how many he found. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2012-03-02 05:51 |
| #2 So called Blue Dog Democrat ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-02 02:24 |
| #1 Well, maybe he will be faithful to his Creator. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-03-02 01:59 |