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

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From: Michael McDonald
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:53 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] D.C. requires voters at polls to sign a register

If you view the video, the poll worker asks the impersonator to sign the
poll book, at which point he says he would feel more comfortable showing an
id, needs to go get it, and walks out.

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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 Richard
Winger
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 12:34 PM
To: law-election at uci.edu
Subject: [EL] D.C. requires voters at polls to sign a register

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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