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

[Jack Santucci]

...which is a non-issue in the District of Columbia from an anti-fraud
perspective. This is because the same voter, in order to vote more than
once, would have to go to a different precinct on a successive voting
attempt, in which case his/her name would not be listed in that pollbook.
Otherwise he or she would have to cast a special ballot in the different
precinct, which would not be counted. This is because, assuming proper
procedure downtown, special ballots are not tallied until all signed
pollbooks are reviewed.

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jack Santucci <jms346 at georgetown.edu> wrote:

> Actually, some dignitaries' addresses are not listed in the precinct
> pollbook. I assume that this is out of concern for their safety. I do not
> know how the check-in clerk goes about verifying their addresses in such
> cases.
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> Authority: three recent tours as a precinct captain/assistant precinct
> captain in the District of Columbia.
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> Jack Santucci
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Douglas Johnson <djohnson at ndcresearch.com>wrote:
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>>  Responding only to the reply below, not to the larger Holder ballot &
>> voter ID issue:
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>> 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.
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>> So asking for the address of the voter is no defense against fraudulent
>> voting.
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>> - Doug
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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 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Richard Winger
>> 415-922-9779
>> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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