Monday Shutters
Providing a bit more certitude to this whole election PROCESS:
A new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer-assisted analysis.
Oh, great. But don’t worry. It’s all above-board.
The numbers do not indicate how much fraud is the result of dead voters in New York, only the potential for it. Typically, records of votes by the dead are the result of bookkeeping errors and do not mean any extra ballots were actually cast.
The Journal did not find any fraud in the local matches it investigated.
Great. I can stop worrying, I guess. Especially when I read things like this:
Democrats who cast votes after they died outnumbered Republicans by more than 4 to 1.
Don’t be alarmed. Here’s an explanation.
The reason: Most of them came from Democrat-dominated New York City, where the higher population produced more matches.
It’s definitely important, though. Remember this?
Other states have used the death index to supplement data collected by their health departments. Earlier this year, officials in Washington state used health department records and the death index to remove 19,579 deceased people in the first four months after its statewide database was created. The effort there was underscored by the results of the 2004 gubernatorial election, in which Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes after two recounts of the more than 2.8 million cast.
I would be curious as to whether or not (and if yes, for whom) those 19.5K voted.
The Kerry Spot - (Wow. Haven’t thought about him for a while.) - has some insider INFO. And Red State’s Leon Wolf is FEELING like me.
Oh, and just for the record? THIS is the way you do a political ad.
American Papist REPORTS on Detroit’s new bishop - (auxiliary, that is).
Ordained for Corpus Christi in 1988, Flores was immediately placed on the fast track by then-Bishop Rene Gracida, who the new bishop served as his personal secretary, parochial vicar of Corpus Christi Cathedral, vice-chancellor and episcopal master of ceremonies. After five years as the diocese’s vocation director, he was sent to Rome, where he earned his license and doctorate in theology from the Angelicum.
Returning home, the bishop-elect was named chancellor of the diocese while serving as a professor of theology at the University of St Thomas in Houston and St Mary’s, where he was named vice-rector in 2002. Named earlier this year as rector of Corpus Christi Cathedral, he speaks Spanish, Italian, and Latin in addition to English.
And here are a couple of Halloween links: FUNNY or SCARY? You pick.
