See this story about voter registration in Orange County, California. Thanks to Around the Capitol for the link.
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Orange County (California) Election Officials Explain Why One-Sixth of the County’s Registered Voters were Dropped from Rolls — No Comments
Do the Donkeys LOVE having non-voters on the voters lists or what ???
See the infamous Chicago graveyard votes.
i.e. How come there is NOT an AUTOMATIC purging of dead/moved out voters after EVERY U.S.A. election – esp. Prez elections ???
“How come there is NOT an AUTOMATIC purging of dead/moved out voters after EVERY U.S.A. election?”
Umm… that’s what this IS. I work in an Iowa election office and while state law varies, the main law governing voter purges is the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. You know it as Motor Voter.
Since Motor Voter, no one is supposed to get canceled JUST for not voting. Everything depends on the MAIL.
Each year, election offices get the Postal Service’s National Change Of Address (NCOA) database. If the postal address is outside the county, we place the voter on Inactive status. Also, if a card mailed within the county gets Returned To Sender the voter gets inactivated. After two general elections, voters go from Inactive to fully canceled (unless of course they re-register).
The biggest problem we get with that is if the letter carrier keeps delivering mail, for example to the parents of young adults who have moved away. Unless that card gets returned to sender we have no way to know the person has moved away. Parents can send the card back but that only lets us inactivate, not cancel. Only a signature from the voter themselves, or a notice of registration from the voter’s new community, lets us cancel right away.
Iowa doesn’t mail as much as California; we don’t have voter guides. But last year we did a county-wide voter card mailing after redistricting and reprecincting. We also did a lot of advance work notifying large living facilities (we’re a college town, so I mean frats dorms and apartments) that the cards were on the way and that it was really really important to get them back. One out of eight active voters got inactivated, so Orange County’s one of six isn’t that far off.
As for death, we cancel from the obituaries every day and also get death records from the state. The main way people fall through the cracks is if they die in a different state and don’t run a local obit.
How come govt tax and utility bills seem to get to each house/apt via the snail mail ???
Where is the inter-State compact for reporting on dead/moved voters ???
How many folks moving to another State get a new driver’s license, etc. in such another State ???
How long has the internet been operational between State/Local election regimes ???
Do the Donkeys LOVE having non-voters on the voters lists or what ???
See the infamous Chicago graveyard votes.
i.e. How come there is NOT an AUTOMATIC purging of dead/moved out voters after EVERY U.S.A. election – esp. Prez elections ???
“How come there is NOT an AUTOMATIC purging of dead/moved out voters after EVERY U.S.A. election?”
Umm… that’s what this IS. I work in an Iowa election office and while state law varies, the main law governing voter purges is the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. You know it as Motor Voter.
Since Motor Voter, no one is supposed to get canceled JUST for not voting. Everything depends on the MAIL.
Each year, election offices get the Postal Service’s National Change Of Address (NCOA) database. If the postal address is outside the county, we place the voter on Inactive status. Also, if a card mailed within the county gets Returned To Sender the voter gets inactivated. After two general elections, voters go from Inactive to fully canceled (unless of course they re-register).
The biggest problem we get with that is if the letter carrier keeps delivering mail, for example to the parents of young adults who have moved away. Unless that card gets returned to sender we have no way to know the person has moved away. Parents can send the card back but that only lets us inactivate, not cancel. Only a signature from the voter themselves, or a notice of registration from the voter’s new community, lets us cancel right away.
Iowa doesn’t mail as much as California; we don’t have voter guides. But last year we did a county-wide voter card mailing after redistricting and reprecincting. We also did a lot of advance work notifying large living facilities (we’re a college town, so I mean frats dorms and apartments) that the cards were on the way and that it was really really important to get them back. One out of eight active voters got inactivated, so Orange County’s one of six isn’t that far off.
As for death, we cancel from the obituaries every day and also get death records from the state. The main way people fall through the cracks is if they die in a different state and don’t run a local obit.
How come govt tax and utility bills seem to get to each house/apt via the snail mail ???
Where is the inter-State compact for reporting on dead/moved voters ???
How many folks moving to another State get a new driver’s license, etc. in such another State ???
How long has the internet been operational between State/Local election regimes ???