West Virginia Secretary of State working to clean up Voter Rolls

[old buzzard]

Some counties had more registered voters than their recorded population. To date 52,000 names have been removed from voter rolls. Among those removed were those who have died and were still registered, convicted felons, and people with duplicate registrations.

With 52,000 improper voter registrations in our little state alone, imagine how many more there are nation wide.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/new...ans-up-voter-rolls-52k-registrations-removed/

 

[MikeRafone]

I don't want to mention names as the man may still be alive, but a County Sheriff I knew when I was a teen, was talking to my Grandpa about the trouble they were having having finding jurors. (Juries are drawn from voter registration rolls.) They would call or go out to the house of the non-responding prospective jurors to see what was up to be met with a lot of "Nope, they've been dead for years."

He couldn't do a thing about it as the same county political machines that got him elected kept those zombie voters on the rolls in case a tight race threatened Ol' Buck's all important County Commission position that kept things well oiled and running properly.

 

[PriddyBoy]

Some counties had more registered voters than their recorded population. To date 52,000 names have been removed from voter rolls. Among those removed were those who have died and were still registered, convicted felons, and people with duplicate registrations.

With 52,000 improper voter registrations in our little state alone, imagine how many more there are nation wide.

http://www.theintelligencer.net/new...ans-up-voter-rolls-52k-registrations-removed/

Simple extrapolation is 9,244,444. Does that mean 1000 invalid votes? 10K? A couple of million if it's really "Worked" hard? No way to pin it down, but the vote is worth protecting moving forward.

 

[dave]

Fwiw, my name was probably on it a couple times. Voted in Putnam before I moved to NC. Never did anything to inform Winfield I had left. Moved back to Morgantown and have lived in 2 districts and when I re registered I never did anything to remove my name from the old book.

 

[old buzzard]

Simple extrapolation is 9,244,444. Does that mean 1000 invalid votes? 10K? A couple of million if it's really "Worked" hard? No way to pin it down, but the vote is worth protecting moving forward.

With that many improper registrations the door is certainly open for voter fraud (and certain counties in our state have a long history of voter fraud). Hopefully what our Secretary of State is doing will reduce the chances of that.