New TTV Research Finds Thousands of Potential Duplicate Voter Registrations in NC Counties
This
week TTV turned over thousands of potential duplicate voter
registrations in some of
North Carolina’s largest counties in a new strategy to share findings
and oversee the eventual removal of bogus files in bulk. As you may
know,
as an organization TTV cannot directly challenge the veracity of a voter
registration– only local voters have that power in most cases. True the
Vote can, however, share findings and negotiate to view how counties in
receipt process TTV research and improve voter rolls at large. We’ll
share these findings in greater detail as the various jurisdictions
contacted offer feedback on TTV research. Reactions to TTV’s findings
have
been overwhelmingly appreciated thus far.
Voter ID Fight in North Carolina
May Head to Settlement Talks
One
of the most highly publicized fights over a voter ID
law and other election integrity reforms may end with a handshake
instead of a judge’s order in North Carolina. New court documents filed
this
week indicate the NAACP and other plaintiffs are opening the door to
settlement talks after Tar Heel legislators amended the law to allow
voters to
sign a “reasonable impediment declaration” if they could not comply with
the law when enforcement begins in 2016. You can read more about
the status of the lawsuit here.
A key component of the case brought by NAACP, et al., is the assertion that the State has not done a good enough job educating the public about the law as 2016 draws near. The North Carolina State Board of Elections has built an easy-to-use website that tells voters all they need to know about complying with the new requirement. If you live in the state or know someone that does, share this website now (voterid.nc.gov). The link is short enough to tweet it – #justsaying.
The U.S. Postal Service Wants YOU to Vote by Mail…Maybe
When you hear the words ‘Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service’, your first instinct may be to find some paint to observe the drying process as a pick-me-up. Stick with us, though, because this office in the USPS is now openly advocating for all “election jurisdictions to transition to all-mail voting” for the noble purpose of “grow[ing] mail volume and revenue.” That’s right, the Inspector General sees a potential $2 million annual increase in income by promoting the method of voting universally understood to be the most susceptible to fraud. Thankfully, USPS management is not sold on the idea. Opposition to the idea is no doubt bolstered by election blunders like most recently seen in Orem, Utah, where roughly 1,300 ballots were delivered after an election -- by no fault of the voters in question -- due to internal inefficiencies with the postal service.
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