Section 8 of Motor Voter is there, in the words of J Christian Adams, to bring integrity to the voting process. It forces states to remove ineligible voters (ie. dead people, felons, illegals, etc.) from voter rolls to prevent voter fraud. According to Adams, the DOJ has issued a mandate to not pursue cases that deal with this specific section of the Motor Voter law. In fact, he says the DOJ actually dismissed a case that the Bush administration was pursuing that dealt specifically with Section 8 voter fraud in Missouri.

So in effect, this administration is condoning voter fraud. Awesome.

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  • williamm

    http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-gall

    U.S. Justice Department rejects Georgia voter screening

    9:41 am June 1, 2009, by Jim Galloway

    Update in bold below, at 5:25 p.m.

    The U.S. Justice Department has rejected a program put together by Secretary of State Karen Handel to comb through state databases to detect ineligible voters who may not be U.S. citizens, calling it both inaccurate and discriminatory.

    The system was used last year, in the months before the 2008 general election.

  • Jaxcoffee

    Brings real reason as to why they don't want to enforce immigration law now doesn't it?

  • Don17000

    Exactly as stated. It's inaccurate and discriminatory. They have no accurate way to verify the information they're using to purge the rolls. In Florida, the elections of 2000 and 2004 were rife with instances of thousands of people who had illegally been purged from the rolls, allegedly on the instruction of former Sec of State Katherine Harris, who had told them to also purge anyone whose name and address was similar. But apparently, Hispanic names and registered Republicans only minimally targeted. I understand the same thing happened in Ohio. In both states, I believe, the Sec of State at the time also happened to be the GOP candidate's campaign chair for that state.

    So the DOJ issued a mandate that since there isn't accurate information to prosecute these cases… don't file them.

    Here's a URL to a CNN story showing that Karen Handel's program was yielding similar results:

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/voter.su

    An excerpt from it:

    “(Kyla) Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been 'flagged' because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information. At least 4,500 of those people are having their citizenship questioned and the burden is on them to prove eligibility to vote.

    Experts say lists of people with mismatches are often systematically cut, or “purged,” from voter rolls.

    It's a scenario that's being repeated all across the country, with cases like Berry's raising fears of potential vote suppression in crucial swing states.

    “What most people don't know is that every year, elections officials strike millions of names from the voter rolls using processes that are secret, prone to error and vulnerable to manipulation,” said Wendy Weiser, an elections expert with New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. “

    This would explain why the DOJ is reluctant to prosecute such cases. But J. Christian Adams should know this, right? It isn't exactly a secret. Yet he wants to use DOJ lawyers to go after all this? And who does the legwork on all these thousands of cases? Who pays to do the legwork? Remember, this is 50,000 cases just in Georgia. Even if only 10% are prosecuted… that's 5.000 cases, most of which may be totally bogus.

    Why would he want to do that? Well…. it would certainly get a lot of people pissed off at the Administration, wouldn't it?

    Coincidentally, after trying to purge based on who-knows-what criteria (obviously nothing they should have been using) she's running for governor.

  • Jaxcoffee

    Sorry, but I'm not buying it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/JJWAFS3CTAETTM6GCM4ZA7TNAU don c

    Mr. Adams better watch his back. The progressives are coming for him, count on it.

  • Don17000

    You probably can't afford to.

  • Don17000

    Generally, these programs use a “matching” process, which demands that the name on one record exactly match that on another, added perhaps years later. It's been found that these records are full of typos, names reported differently (one with a middle name and the other without or with just the initial, one using a full name and the other a nickname, etc.) and they're often off by as much as 20%. With millions of names, that's a huge number. There's often not enough time to correct the record because the huge volume of corrections crashes the system, and it generally can't be done by election day. In the case of the article I linked to, the letter was postmarked a week after it was dated, and it arrived on the deadline date.

  • williamm

    None of us can afford the liberal spin. I love the way the liberals pretend they want honest elections. Unfortunately for liberals it's getting harder to sell.
    I intentionally posted the link to get liberals to respond. With ACORN and their illegal activity, the Black Panther intimidation which was forgiven by this administration, plus illegal activity at the polls, only other liberals would buy the liberal spin.

  • http://www.commieblaster.com/ CommieBlaster

    Nothing New Here…. Look at Obama's Voting Fraud History here:

    http://www.commieblaster.com/acorn/

  • Don17000

    I'm sure you'll go on believing that… until YOUR name gets deleted in a purge because some felon used it as one of many aliases, and the elections commission only tried to confirm it by sending a letter to the felon's address, then the computer deleted all the targeted names in that zip code.

    Or because your name on your voters registration doesn't exactly match the one on your Social Security or drivers license… maybe one has a middle name and the other only an initial, or nothing. Too bad. Or the address where they sent the letter said “Street” instead of “Terrace,” or Fairmont instead of Fairmount.

    The fact is, the information they use to purge the rolls is rarely any more reliable than the information on the rolls their purging, and when they differ, it isn't always easy to know which is right. Most of the time, it doesn't even matter, because it really is the same person. The difference is often only a matter of what the form on which the information was filled in was asking for, and how much room it allowed. If the form asks for the name of someone named Christopher, but allows 10 spaces…. guess what gets put down?

    Just today on the bus, I overheard a woman complaining she had to take the bus because they were giving her a hassle renewing her license, which was back in her maiden name, since she had been married and then divorced about 30 years ago. They wanted to see her marriage license and her divorce papers.

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