muon2
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« on: November 26, 2016, 09:22:08 AM » |
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Purging voters is hard to get right. Some states may be too tight, but it's also easy to be too loose.
In IL it is very hard to remove a voter from the rolls. For instance, when I voted at 10 am on election day I was surprised to see both of my children in the voter book. My daughter changed her registration to MA for the primaries, but she was still in the book since MA doesn't share those changes with IL. It used to be that local voter registrars could take an affidavit and report those changes such as families that moved and people who died out of their home county The voter rolls were fairly accurate from that process, but that law was removed about a dozen years ago. Now the election authority has to send out a post card to someone they think isn't living at an address, but that can only take place after a voter misses three cycles. So my daughter will probably be on the voter rolls for up to a decade in IL even as she is registered in MA.
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