[RP TownTalk] Election Results

[Roland Walker]

There really is no way for people in town to clean up the county
rolls, besides returning the mail as Lou described.

Any returned mail will cause the county to mark the voter as Inactive,
though they will still be present on the rolls.  After a certain time,
Inactive voters are purged.

Unfortunately the great majority of defunct records are not marked
Inactive in the county database.  In addition, a number of voters are
marked Inactive are actually present in town.  Also, the county
sometimes goes so far as to mistakenly purge voters who still reside
here.  I can think of one person this happened to who is probably on
this list.

On the bright side, while 30-40% of the rolls are junk, I can tell you
as a sometime election observer and election judge that those defunct
records are not used for fraudulent voting -- not on any large scale.

If you want to do a voter registration drive, the best way would be to
volunteer with someone's campaign for office.  I do it every time
around.

R

On 5/11/07, sheila <herb4u at verizon.net> wrote:
> No specific comment, but a question.  How does one organize a voter
> registration drive in a town?  Is it done?  Would that be a method for
> cleaning up the rolls?
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> Sheila Smith
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