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Xazy · 10-20-2010, 04:35 AM

It is the government job to review someone’s registration to vote. And I can say in New York City they do a horrible job of it. I registered to vote 4 times since they kept getting my name wrong (and i switched to another building in the neighborhood). Needless to say in 4 different buildings i can vote every election in theory. There was no verification by the board of elections

I can give other examples that are known. But this is a board of elections issue, and they should have caught it right away and sent him a letter saying we appreciate your desire to help in the democratic process, but sadly you are just a permanent resident and currently not a citizen. If you become a citizen please do register again, voting for non-citizens is a crime.

This is just a failure on the government side. That being said I do think he did commit a crime, and should be informed of it, but deportation is way out of line to cover for the governments mistake.

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Xazy People in masks cannot be trusted Location: NYC	It is the government job to review someone’s registration to vote. And I can say in New York City they do a horrible job of it. I registered to vote 4 times since they kept getting my name wrong (and i switched to another building in the neighborhood). Needless to say in 4 different buildings i can vote every election in theory. There was no verification by the board of elections I can give other examples that are known. But this is a board of elections issue, and they should have caught it right away and sent him a letter saying we appreciate your desire to help in the democratic process, but sadly you are just a permanent resident and currently not a citizen. If you become a citizen please do register again, voting for non-citizens is a crime. This is just a failure on the government side. That being said I do think he did commit a crime, and should be informed of it, but deportation is way out of line to cover for the governments mistake. __________________ Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.