The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? “All-in-all, a great person, a great woman, just a wonderful person” is how Alexis Guidry described her mother to Local 2 Investigates.
“As far back as I can remember, they’ve always voted in the election,” Guidry said of her parents. The March 2008 Primary was no exception. Voting records show Alexis’ mom, Gloria Guidry, cast her ballot in person near her South Houston home. “It was just very shocking, a little unsettling,” said Alexis Guidry.
It’s unsettling because Gloria Guidry died of cancer 10 months before the March Primary.
“She’d be very upset,” Guidry said when asked what her mom would think. Trent Seibert, of Texas Watchdog, says you should be too. “This is really disquieting. It’s concerning. It’s worrisome,” said Seibert. He heads up the non-partisan news group on the web. Texas Watchdog compared Harris County’s voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches — registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.
Some of them, like Henderson Hill’s late wife Linda, voted postmortem. “I would like to know who did it, myself,” Hill told Davis. We don’t know who used Linda Hill’s or Gloria Guidry’s IDs to vote, but we do know if their names had been purged from voter rolls after they died, using their IDs wouldn’t have worked. “This is a red flag. No matter where you are, this should set off alarm bells,” Seibert said. “Someone needs to take a look at this.” “We just kind of work with the systems that we’re allowed to,” explained George Hammerlein, the director of Harris County Voter Registration. The county’s system for culling deceased voters from the roll seems painfully primitive. We watched employees clip obituaries from the newspaper and sort through probate records for names matching those on the roll. But, Hammerlein says while fraud is a concern, for his office, disenfranchising voters is a bigger one.
Texas Watchdog found 4,462 registered voters who appear to be deceased. In 2000, George Bush won the presidential election by a mere 537 votes in Florida.
Time is running out and they better get a handle on this, lest we have a repeat of the last election.
And this is new news?
Sort of like Acorn turning in invalid voter registration cards in Ohio.
Acorn
Ayers
Pfleger
Rezko
Franks
Pelosi
Reid
I can’t wait for the next four years with Obomba.
But, Hammerlein says while fraud is a concern, for his office, disenfranchising voters is a bigger one.
The ongoing issue of disenfranchising voters, and rigged voting machines, isn’t new. Therefore, it isn’t news. It’s a far worse problem than voter fraud.
ACORN voter fraud
Zombies … is it the Apocalypse yet?
Is this anther McCain Hail Mary?
While the Obama camp draws in tens of thousands of young (and living) voters to secure their future, McCain may have an interesting strategy of resurrecting dead voters.
I don’t think it’s gonna work. Clearly, God is on the side of Obama and will not allow dead voters to rise. I am almost certain of that.
How hard is it to ask for ID when voting?
#6 “While the Obama camp draws in tens of thousands of young (and living) voters to secure their future,”
Kinda like in Nevada, where ACORN registered the entire starting line of the Dallas Cowboys as Dems living in Nevada? Yep, I have to say, those guys are alive!
ROFL
“Time is running out and they better get a handle on this, lest we have a repeat of the last election.”
Don’t you see? This is the republicans doing. They want to fuck up everything so we DO have a repeat of the last election! Sleazy bastards.
Funny how you don’t find this happening in republican districts to the extent that it happens widely in democrat machine areas. Also, you don’t find republicans scouring the ex-felon lists to recruit those people either:
http://tinyurl.com/4lb4bz
‘The young’ vote democrat until they get a job, start paying taxes and wise up. Until then all of the democrat’s ideas about taxing the hell out of everyone and solving every issue with a government handout sound really nifty.
#9 Personality said,
“Don’t you see? This is the republicans doing. They want to fuck up everything so we DO have a repeat of the last election!”
ACORN is a repub organization?
Who is to say that is wasn’t Republicans filling out those fake registration forms to screw up all the legitimate forms? That is a know tactic of Karl Rove. It is called “Discrete Voter Suppression”
“Funny how you don’t find this happening in republican districts to the extent that it happens widely in democrat machine areas.”
Yeah that is funny isn’t it? Considering the districts in which it is happening tend to lean Democrat in the first place. Funny huh? Who would benefit from that the most?
“Hammerlein says while fraud is a concern, for his office, disenfranchising voters is a bigger one.”
What an ass. Every time somebody who isn’t legally supposed to vote or someone votes more than once it disenfranchises a legitimate voter.
#7 – MikeN,
Not hard. If you don’t care about the number of voters that will be unable to vote because they do not have ID. Since they would likely not be republican voters, you probably won’t care. It’s yet another good way to help tip an election in favor of the republican party. Since they refuse to actually take a positive stand on any issue, this sort of thing may well be required for them to “win” again.
Yeah I posted an Acorn article in the cagematch last night about their investigation in Indiana.
#14 – Me (& Lyin’ MikeN),
I should have posted a link to a good source of why requiring ID at the booths is a bad idea.
ACLU Urges Senate to Oppose Voter ID Amendment to Immigration Reform Bill
Remember, voting is a fundamental right. Restricting it to those who possess an ID is unconstitutional in the extreme.
#16 “Remember, voting is a fundamental right. Restricting it to those who possess an ID is unconstitutional in the extreme.”
Actually, ensuring that those who are voting are eligible to vote is constitutional and has been ruled on by the SC…
BTW, the poorest need ID to collect welfare and such. Yet, another red herring…
Thanks for playing.
“Amendment XV (1870)
Section 1.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
So having a poor person get his vote diluted by fraud is not a violation of his constitutional rights?
When a citizen goes to the trouble to vote posthumously, they display the sort of uncommon dedication to the democratic process that has made our country the shining beacon that it is.
#20 Gary, the dangerous infidel,
ROFL!
Post ‘O the day!
Heck, Paddy-O, I’d have been satisfied with just a chuckle 😉
Where can I get a pair of those sunglasses?
Registration fraud is not voter fraud. When you pay people to register voters this kind of thing will happen. But it doesn’t translate into people showing to vote on election day.
The Republican ideal is to disenfranchise thousands to insure that not one individual could possibly cast an illegal ballot — as long as those thousands are people who don’t vote right anyway.
Hey Gary,
So, what does it mean when a dead candidate does a better job campaigning than a live one? Is that also a show of real deadication?
http://tinyurl.com/6unal
>>So, what does it mean when a dead candidate
>>does a better job campaigning than a live one?
Well, when the “live” candidate is John Ass-croft, that’s about what you’d expect. Look at what he went on to do as ‘berto Gonzalez’s predecessor…the Patriot Act, supporting tracking library patrons for their reading habits, spending taxpayer money to cover up the Spirit of Justice’s bits, putting Tommy Chong in the slammer, the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, leaks in the Valerie Plame debacle, ad nauseum.
He should have quit while he was ahead.
HA! It is hilarious to hear Republicans complaining about possible voter fraud. For every single incident that they may ‘uncover’, there are five more cases of fraud and voter suppression that the Republicans can be accused of directly.
Why is it that except for that idiot Feinstein, every effort to make voting records verifiable is opposed by Republicans? Voting machines with no paper record are almost exclusively a Republican supported program.
Nice “They Live” throwback, McCullough. Classic!
#27 Asleep said, “For every single incident that they may ‘uncover’, there are five more cases of fraud and voter suppression that the Republicans can be accused of directly.”
I could ACCUSE you of being stupid, right? I’m sure if there is every real evidence a nice liberal judge will allow a trial…
#29 – O’Pinocchio
You’re just jerking our chains, right? If not, Gepetto is going to whittle you down to matchsticks.
You surely cant be asserting that, with all the underhanded tricks the Repugs pulled in 2000 and 2004, the Dems could ever even come CLOSE in terms of voter fraud?? If they hired Mayor Daley the Elder to stuff ballot boxes and register Caspar the Ghost they could never hold a candle to the underhanded tricks that the Repugs are so comfortable with.
And they don’t even need to do that, as they’ve got Diebold in their pocket (or Diebold has them in their pocket, depending on how you look at it). They’ve got an advantage right from the get-go.
#30 Mr ‘Tard said,
“You’re just jerking our chains, right?”
Where are the trials?
As I thought. Your meds are wearing off and your tin foil hat is on too tight. Bad combo.