[EL] D.C. requires voters at polls to sign a register

[Lori Minnite]

I agree with Michael. Crime is motivated activity. I'd like to know what 
kind of money paid by whom is motivating James O'Keefe to come very 
close to participating in a conspiracy to commit a crime. As someone 
with a record, he should worry a lot about crossing that line, so I 
would guess he's asking his donors to pony up big time. I could, of 
course, be wrong. He could be motivated to almost commit a crime for 
ideological reasons, or even because he fervently cares about clean 
elections. But until he actually commits the crime on a large enough 
scale to influence the outcome of an election, his work will not be done.

Lori Minnite

On 4/9/2012 1:39 PM, Michael McDonald wrote:
> I would disagree. I have an older version of the DC voter file on my
> computer, complete with names and addresses. It should be easy for anyone
> connected to a campaign (and thus have the motivation) to obtain the
> addresses and names of all the registered voters.
>
> However, as I thought about this more, O’Keefe is nothing more than the
> neighborhood kid who lights a bag of poo on the porch and runs away. He
> doesn’t consummate the actual act of burning down a house because the
> penalties are way too steep. Until he demonstrates how he can burn down a
> house by changing the outcome of an election with a massive impersonation
> fraud scheme and he and his co-conspirators are willing to pay the
> consequences for it, then he only remains an annoying pranking kid. If he
> felt this was such an important issue that he was willing to face jail,
> abuse at the hands of police, and even death, then he would be equal to the
> heroes who participated in the civil rights movement and won many of the
> voting protections we have today. If anything, the coward demonstrates that
> the penalties in place are a sufficient deterrent to prevent the abuse he
> seeks to expose.
>
> ============
> Dr. Michael P. McDonald
> Associate Professor, George Mason University
> Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
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> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry
> Wei
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:50 PM
> To: richardwinger at yahoo.com
> Cc: law-election at uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [EL] D.C. requires voters at polls to sign a register
>
> Voters in DC also are asked to confirm their address upon check-in. If they
> cannot name their address on the voter register, the voter fills out a
> special ballot pending an official government or institutional document
> proving address.
>
> It was probably easy for Project Veritas to find Holder's home address, but
> it would be much harder for someone/an organization intending to affect an
> election using impersonation fraud to accumulate enough addresses and match
> them to registered voters to make much of a difference in the result.
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Richard Winger<richardwinger at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> I just phoned the District of Columbia Board of Elections, and was told that
> when voters appear at a polling place, they must sign a register in order to
> receive a ballot.  This is relevant to the message this morning that someone
> walked into a polling place in D.C. at the April 3 primary and falsely
> claimed to be US Attorney General Eric Holder.  The person did not follow
> through and actually attempt to vote.  But in order for him to receive a
> ballot, he would have had to sign in, and his signature could later have
> been compared to the real Eric Holder's signature on voter registration
> records.
>
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
>
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