Thread: The dead vote in Harris County

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March 11, 2009
The dead vote in Harris County --UPDATED
A Harris County election official told the Senate that 24 registered voters cast ballots after their date of death, some in multiple elections.

"Several of these voters voted early and in person," said Ed Johnson, assistant director of voter registration in the Harris County tax office.

"There is voter fraud in Harris County," Johnson said. "I can't tell you how extensive it is."

Johnson said most of these voters were cleared from the rolls by 2000. He said his office every day compares obituaries with the voting lists.

Johnson said the Web site Texas Watchdog gave his office a list of 4,000 names of possible dead voters created by comparing the registration list against Social Security documents. He said they are reviewing the list.

But Johnson said Texas Watchdog gave the list to a Houston television station that found two people on the list had voted in the 2008 primary. He said the family members were upset to find their relatives' identity had been stolen.

Johnson said the cases were turned over to the district attorney's office, but there was not enough evidence to know who cast the ballots

Johnson said there was another attempt to register 121 people in 2006 at a non-existent address on Dashwood Street. He said the applications were mailed in from El Paso. The case is still under investigation.

In a third case, a college student who had a voter registration project in class in 2000 made up 61 registration applications and filed them. Johnson said she was prosecuted.




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ACORN INTERESTING

Originally Posted by vmonkey56

ACORN INTERESTING

No doubt. Just a good reason to have to show an ID when you vote.