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-Election 2012
30,000 Deceased Voters Removed From Michigan Rolls
2012-05-18

Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson (R) appears to be doing a bang up job since taking office and has eliminated some 30,000 deceased voters from Michigan's voter rolls.

An audit of voting records over the period from 2008 to 2011 showed that more than 1300 deceased voters had cast ballots over the audit period though an official quoted in the source article said "in every instance where it appears a deceased person or incarcerated person voted and local records were available, a clerical error was established as the reason for the situation."
whatever that means.
In any case, it is good to see Michigan joining several other states in getting their voter rolls cleaned up in preparation for the 2012 vote. It promises to be a much cleaner election in many states this year.
Posted by:crosspatch

#16  I will NEVER vote for a Democrat for office of Secretary of State.

Given the events of the last few years, I will vote for a Democrat no more forever.

Worth noting is that Michigan is one of the states where you need a picture ID to vote.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-05-18 22:35  

#15  First they came for the dead...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-05-18 16:34  

#14  American are pretty smart, actually. If you removed the dead from the voter rolls, there would be no democrat party. MOAR Please!
Posted by: newc   2012-05-18 16:01  

#13  I saw a vid clip of Obama on The View (can't stand the chattering magpies except for Elizabeth Hasselbeck). Barbara Walters asked if Obama was worried about winning or some such question as that. Obama flashed briefly what seemed like anger and said with too much certainty: "I am going to win." 20,000 voters here, 30,000, 10% there and you have large-scale voter fraud that might swing an election.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-05-18 14:36  

#12  The thing to be wary of is the "Secretary of State Project" that is designed to elect "progressives" into the office of Secretary of State in the various states of the union. In practically every case of which I am aware, the states where massive cleanup of voter rolls happens are states where a Republican Secretary of State has replaced a Democrat. The election of Al Frankin in Minnesota was an example of how much damage a partisan Secretary of State can do when it was shown that ballots cast by dead people were greater than the margin of victory yet the votes by the dead were allowed to stand.

Democrats appear to be using voter fraud as a fundamental election tactic and need to secure the office of "Secretary of State" in order to enable that strategy.

I will NEVER vote for a Democrat for office of Secretary of State.
Posted by: crosspatch   2012-05-18 14:14  

#11  I am afraid that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted by: DarthVader   2012-05-18 12:54  

#10  Each state should dump its registration database after every presidential election and start over with a clean slate. That, and voter ID laws would make ACORN's job much harder and more expensive.
Posted by: Iblis   2012-05-18 12:21  

#9  And about 10 percent of the voter registrations are 'questionable' in New Mexico as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-05-18 12:00  

#8  I recall recently hearing they have 50K or more dead on the rolls in Florida.
Posted by: OldSpook   2012-05-18 11:28  

#7  I've received correspondence from Dems regarding issues I did not contact them about and just received a phone call soliciting Dem campaign donations--I took the opportunity to express how I really felt! ;D
Posted by: Omoluque Hapsburg8162   2012-05-18 09:41  

#6  Well, Cook County's in Illinois, so even for a dead voter, that's some trick!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2012-05-18 08:55  

#5  Thanks Bobby. I'm sure a Bourbon Street prostitute enjoys more social credibility than a member of the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-18 08:18  

#4  It would be interesting to know how long the dead voters had been in that state...
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-05-18 06:27  

#3  I'm sure all those who voted for JFK in 1960 are still available for 2012, Besoeker.

I assume "clerical error" was supposed to rule out a systematic, machine-organized, corrupt conspiracy to add however many votes it takes to win.
Posted by: Bobby   2012-05-18 06:21  

#2  Have registered voter roles in Cook County suddenly swollen?

Just asking.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-18 04:41  

#1  Leave them there as bait and jug anyone who votes in their name until they can cough up $10,000 or 1000 legitimate signatures for the "Show Your ID To Vote" proposition.
Posted by: gorb   2012-05-18 03:05  

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