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Cynthetiq · 09-13-2008, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dc_dux

I might be more concerned if there was evidence of such practices on a wide spread basis....hell, even on a limited basis....and there isn't.

IMO, this is an attempt at selective voter repression.

There isn't?

I'm not talking about voter suppression, I'm talking about making sure that one person votes and that person is THAT individual.

Dead Voters Still Showing Up on Election Records, Puzzling Officials - America’s Election HQ

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“We have one person who appeared to have voted 17 times since he died,” Dufresne told FOX News.

Dufresne said there is no evidence of any election fraud, but the number of dead voters “shows the system is vulnerable, and it shows that people who are clever and have a little cooperation in the town level, you could use this and get people to vote for people who died.”

Yet Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz is adamant that “actually no dead people voted.”

“I want to be very clear about that,” she said, explaining that while votes were cast and counted in the names of the dead, “there was no voter fraud at all in the state of Connecticut.”

“Did we have clerical errors where the wrong voter was crossed off? Yes,” she said.

But ballots cast in the names of the dead were counted in her state and in others. In the 2004 governor’s race in Washington state, officials confirmed 19 votes were cast by people who were dead. Republican Dino Rossi lost that election by only 133 votes.

“It was the closest governor’s race in U.S. history. After the fact we found a number of dead people voted. I don’t know how they voted — you have to talk to Shirley MacLaine about that,” Rossi said.