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Do dead people have a right to remain on voter lists?
Common Cause thinks they do. Once more, scary headlines like, "31,000 voters purged" imply 31,000 people showed up to vote for President and were denied their right to vote.
If you just read the article, you'd see that no one showed up to vote in our recent election to be turned away. It didn't happen anywhere.
Provisional ballots guarantee every single eligible voter in the United States a vote in any election. Provisional ballots do not guarantee that every vote will be counted, since not all provisional voters are eligible.
Common Cause and other so-called voting integrity groups are creating a lot of commotion around the issue of voter list purging. They need to scream disenfranchisement and other dirty words because voter list purging is not a real issue.
Even the New York Times is getting in on the action, failing to point out in a series of articles on voter purging that, again, not a single voter has been denied their right to vote after being purged.
What about the right of ordinary citizens to have confidence only eligible voters vote? Don't ask, don't tell!
Accurate voter lists tend to be a partisan issue. Democrats believe Republicans are lurking around any accessible computer just dying to delete the names of students, the poor and minorities. Republicans believe Democrats are lurking around election offices waiting to vote noncitizens and felons.
The danger is Democrats are in control. History doesn't look good for Democrats and voter fraud. The greater danger is that Democrats will use their power to institutionalize laws and practices that will guarantee future wins at the cost of the integrity of our election systems. Practices like not purging voter lists, creating inaccuracies that will and have tempted perpetrators of voter fraud.
The Brennan Center, a partisan activist think tank, is widely quoted and respected for their advocacy around election entitlements. I disagree with almost every published conclusion on problems in the system, but I agree l00% with recent recommendations for purging procedures. The Colorado Secretary of State should encourage the legislature to adopt any laws necessary to implement the Brennan Center's voter list maintenance and purging recommendations.
I doubt Colorado citizens or citizens anywhere would want to jump up and protest taking dead people off voting lists. Or people who have moved. Or duplicates.
The Pugitators greatest threat to our system is not all the reckless commotion. It is their belief that the government is responsible for motivating citizens to register and keep up with their registration status as they go through major life events. The second greatest threat from Purgigators is advocating for taxpayer dollars to fund voter registration and turnout efforts.
Taxpayer dollars should never be spent on special interest registration drives or turnout efforts benefiting one party, which is the way it is done today. Besides being unfair, they don't work.
What the New York Times is not reporting is credible research, like that of American University and The London School of Economics, insisting that voter registration and turnout are motivation issues, not access issues. Easy voting innovations like early voting and mail ballots do not impact voter participation. Believe it or not, turnout in this election was not dramatically higher. It was higher in certain groups.
Entitlement thinking, thinking the government should spend millions of taxpayer dollars on voter registration and turnout efforts may disenfranchise more voters than any voter lists purging, anywhere. When one group is given special consideration by way of taxpayer funded registration and turnout efforts, other groups are disenfranchised by having their votes cancelled by ineligible voters.
Our system is one man or woman, one vote. Not one man or woman - poor, minority, student - l.5 votes due to previous or even imagined disenfranchisement.
It's your right to vote. Don't let them take it from you by claiming you are not responsible. And, if you move, notify your local election office.
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