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Kira Lerner at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/false-data-voting-panel-26aa7e5d2ac1/
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The claim that the number of registered voters in a jurisdiction cant exceed the voting age population
Robert Popper, director of the Election Integrity Project at the conservative Judicial Watch, will testify that states are not maintaining their voter lists sufficiently because there is evidence that in some jurisdictions, the total number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting age citizens.
There are a number of legitimate reasons why these numbers may differ. For one, the number of voting-age citizens residing in a jurisdiction at any time is an estimate. Small counties are more likely to have inaccurate estimates, and many U.S. counties are small.
Jurisdictions are also likely to have deadwood people on their rolls who may have moved out of the area or died, but because they have not updated their registration or because of bureaucratic lag, may still appear on the rolls. Voter rolls may also be inflated because they include military and overseas citizens or 16 and 17-year-olds who have legally pre-registered to vote before they can cast a ballot.
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The claim is also misleading because being registered to vote in multiple jurisdictions is not illegal, despite what Kobach and Trump himself may claim. In fact, as reporters noted last year, a number of people in Trumps inner circle, including Steve Bannon, Tiffany Trump, Sean Spicer, and Jared Kushner, were registered in multiple states themselves in 2016.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)increase in voter turnout, then and only then can we beat the nazis in the WH and the GOP .
Because as a result of recent history, they have power now and they do NOT want us voting.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)popular vote.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Suppression is the new GOP strategy.
After 2012 the Romney postmortem said the GOP didn't have enough votes so they needed to go after Hispanics. After cheating their way to a tiny win in 2016, the GOP plan for 2018 and beyond is : give up on Hispanics and lie and cheat like crazy.