I stand by my post, and will restate it in even more simple terms:

Striving for accuracy in elections is a good thing, not a bad thing.

We’ve had two elections — 1960 and 2000, where accuracy was called into question, never fully resolved, and we may well have inaugurated a President who didn’t actually win the election. I don’t see any way someone could be OK with that.

The 600,000 all came from database discrepencies, and the problem is that it will be nearly impossible to check them all. And that is exactly what Republicans want - to jam up the system. Voting fraud is a non-issue - the number of cases where people have found to voted illegally (as opposed to registration problems) is miniscule. No one is for “letting it slide”, because there is nothing to let slide. Its a Republican-manufactured issue. The idea that this has anything to do with the “desire for accuracy” is laughable. And you know that very well, but because you are such a lying Republican hack, you’ll keep repeating the Karl Rove bullshit.

Go back to MDE or wherever you came from. Everyone here knows you’re a fraud.

Can we all agree that it is desirable to have accuracies in our voter rolls? And can we agree that having 1/3 of new voter registrations in Ohio with descrepencies is something that should be resolved prior to the election, not in the court system afterward?

My point is not partisan as you suggest. My point is directed toward the pursuit of accuracy.

If, of those 200,000 descrepencies, 100,000 are small errors, 50,000 are false Democrats and 50,000 are false Republicans, fine. At least we got it sorted out. But in a state where the margin of victory may well be 100,000 votes, it does need to be sorted out.

I’m surprised that you are advocating for letting it slide. I don’t know anyone who can disagree with the desire for accuracy. Contrary to popular belief, some Republicans don’t like elections being decided in the courts.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Joes_registration.html?showall

Funny, eh?

DantheMan, you are better than that. I would expect that kind of garbage from Bordkorb. The discrepencies are the result of small mismatches (middle initials, abbreviated first names, etc) in databases. The travesty is that Republicans are using that to disenfrancise people - Joe Smith doesnt match Joseph J. Smith, so the registration is invalid. The Acorn issue (which is a problem, but affects nowhere near 200,000 registrations) comes from paying their workers per registration. But the people who filled out those fake registrations (i.e., Mickey Mouse, Terrell Owens) aren’t going to vote.

Yeah, if you think about it, it’s not what the Republican party is pushing.

Sean

We’re talking 21 electoral votes well within the margin of question of fraudulent registrations. This is serious business.