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| 4 Alabama counties have more active, registered voters than adult population |
| 2014-04-23 |
| [BLOG.AL] Less than three months before the June primary, four Alabama counties had more voters on their rolls than what the Census Bureau says is their voting age population. Officials give a number of reasons for that, including under-counting by the census. Secretary of State Jim Bennett said the discrepancies create opportunity for voting fraud. "Every duplicate name and every bad address is just an opportunity for crooks to attempt to manipulate our elections," Bennett said. Each county has a three-person board of registrars that is responsible for maintaining the voting lists with help from the secretary of state's office. The county boards receive notification when a person dies, registers in another county, gets a driver's license in another state or is convicted of a disqualifying felony. The county boards are responsible for removing names from the list. As of March, Greene, Hale, Lowndes and Macon counties had more active, registered voters than what the census estimated as their 18-and-older population in 2012. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 But was he 'counted' as non-democrat Ship? You know along the lines of.... "Well he's registered as a democrat so he must have made a mistake and pushed the wrong button again... we can fix that." |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-04-23 17:51 |
| #8 ...reminds me of...Philadelphia (see 2012 election). |
| Posted by: P2Kontheroad 2014-04-23 17:35 |
| #7 Census data, per US Gov: Hale County: 59.0% Black or African American Lowndes County: 73.5% Black or African American Greene County: 80.34% Black or African American Macon County: 84.64% Black or African American Hmm. Is there anything that seems to form a pattern? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-04-23 17:29 |
| #6 Hell, my Dad's still a registered Democrat and hasn't voted for a Democratic President since Truman. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-23 16:09 |
| #5 Perhaps Alambama should not allow votes to be counted until every voter is ID'd? |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2014-04-23 14:38 |
| #4 It wasn't called the Solid (Democrat) South for nuthin'. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-04-23 12:27 |
| #3 The article provides yet another opportunity to play the on-line parlor game, "Name That Party!" What are the political affiliations of the registrars of those counties? Which way do those counties vote in typical state and federal elections? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2014-04-23 10:50 |
| #2 There is nothing remarkable about this anymore. Every state is in the same situation, and federal rules make it very difficult to clean up voter roles. |
| Posted by: Snick Prince of the Weak7544 2014-04-23 08:45 |
| #1 But many people live in that house LEGALLY? (as in illegal aliens) Bet they're Democrats. What, no bet? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-04-23 02:21 |