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

[Douglas Johnson]

Responding only to the reply below, not to the larger Holder ballot & voter
ID issue:

 

It's really easy to get the list of every voter's name and address in an
entire jurisdiction. Every campaign has the entire list (that's how they
send campaign mail). And they're public records. 

 

So asking for the address of the voter is no defense against fraudulent
voting.

 

- Doug

 

Douglas Johnson

Fellow

Rose Institute of State and Local Government

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douglas.johnson at cmc.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 9:50 AM
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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