Discussion: All Things Voting

[Handsome Rob]

We don't have a discussion thread that I saw that just deals with voting issues--it usually just pops up in one thread or another.

53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2...nd-in-florida/

That's how many have been purged from the voter rolls by the FL Secretary of State this year. But I'm sure no one votes as a dead person, right? Because that would be voter fraud, and voter fraud is just a myth pushed by right-winged racists who want to use voter ID requirements to stop minorities from voting, right?

Mississippi NAACP Leader Sent to Prison for 10 Counts of Voter Fraud

http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/29/mi...f-voter-fraud/

. . . in April (2011) a Tunica County, Miss., jury convicted NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers on 10 counts of fraudulently casting absentee ballots. Sowers is identified on an NAACP website as a member of the Tunica County NAACP Executive Committee.

Sowers was found guilty of voting in the names of Carrie Collins, Walter Howard, Sheena Shelton, Alberta Pickett, Draper Cotton and Eddie Davis. She was also convicted of voting in the names of four dead persons: James L. Young, Dora Price, Dorothy Harris, and David Ross.