[EL] 15, 199 voters left off list due to late submission of forms

[Bev Harris]

Hi Justin,

I enquired about this. Apparently it was mostly voter registration groups
submitting forms late, based on what those involved with the elections
operation told me. Obviously we would expect voters to straggle in late. All I
can base this on is anecdotal information from elections workers.

The registration date field at that time was the a date-stamp on the card
applied by the county elections office. Now, that has been changed to the date
entered. I think both dates need to be shown, and probably the date the voter
put on the card as well.

The point of the article is that we need to be educating and motivating voter
registration groups to do prompt submission. That is one area where some
control over improvements can be applied, at least, through education and
motivation.

It also looks blame can be pinned on the elections administrator, who, according
to his own worksheets, could have at least gotten closer to the mark than he
did. None of this was disclosed to the public, and apparently, not even to the
elections commission. But I'll point out that this elections administrator at
least tried to input the forms, unlike whoever apparently threw away 30 boxes
of voter reg. forms in Atlanta shortly before the 2008 election.

It is to the voter's credit that when they were unable to vote early, they
returned to vote on Election Day but as I pointed out, almost none of these
voters ever voted again.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
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