Les Merritt's Excellent Voter Roll Auditing Adventure

it is attention the man will get.

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

in the area of voting rights has always been focused on ensuring that no individual or group of individuals is prevented from voting. The only reason they would/should get involved with purges is if the purging authority is too aggressive. From their website:

The National Voter Registration Act, also known as the NVRA or the Motor Voter Act, is another significant pieces of voting rights legislation. The NVRA facilitates voter registration for federal elections by allowing voters to register by mail, when they obtain driver's licenses, or when they obtain services from various government agencies, and it permits voter purges only under very controlled conditions. It also helps ensure that eligible voters are not removed from the voting rolls and that people who move in the same registrar's district retain their eligibility to vote even if they have not re-registered at their new location.

The Constitution and subsequent amendments that deal with voting issues are very specific, and all have one thing in common: the only goal of Federal involvement in the elections process is to guarantee voting rights are not abridged.

To vigorously pursue the removal of names from voting rolls is not only outside the DOJ's civil rights mandate, it is also veeery close to being outside of the U.S. Constitution.

The Bartlett letter actually challenged the numbers they claimed to have looked at. Merritt said 50% and he said 4.5 million voters. Except we have 5.5 million total registered voters.

So no one has any idea what he is talking about.

Draft Brad Miller-- NC Sen ActBlue

At issue is WHEN was the state required by law to check the Drivers license or the social security numbers against govt databases. That's where Merritt goes wrong, he is finding voters who have been in the system before NC was required to verify that info.

Now, what happens today when voters register to vote in North Carolina?

We have a problem in NC, called the "No Match, No Vote" rule.

In North Carolina, when a person registers to vote, they must either provide a drivers license number, a social security number, or some other form of identification.
A positive match between the number given and either the drivers' license or social security database must occur before a person's name is placed into the voter registration database.

Justin Levitt , an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice advises that: "North Carolina's procedures * as we understand them * will predictably keep eligible citizens from voting, in a way that is contrary to federal law ... and that is why we remain concerned."

Our goal is to seek a change in this rule either administratively or legislatively.

When North Carolina's Voter Registration checks the Dept. of Motor Vehicles’ and the Social Security Departments’ Database for a “match”, some eligible voters will not be registered:
• Matches of Drivers license numbers (most commonly used) had a 98.25 % valid rate of return,
• Matches against the Social Security Database had only about an 80 % valid rate of return.

You can contact me for more information. NO, Same Day Registration does not correct this problem.