The McGovern campaign, in 1972, felt that it was victimized by voter fraud during the Ohio primaries, according to Hunter Thomson’s excellent Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972.
Given that voter purges are the law, you’d think the government would want to maintain accurate databases.
And if the databases aren’t accurate, then how can the federal government ever claim that anyone owes taxes?
But the “government” is made up of varying parties with varying interests.
I don’t know how that’s relevant. States want federal databases to do proper voter purges, but the feds insist these databases are garbage. Which raises a lot of questions.
I don’t understand how these two things are connected.
Do they actually say “garbage”? Or is it more like one set of data does not fit all, that some data is useful for voter registration purposes, and some is not.
Which doesn’t even approach the question of why voter polls need so badly to be purged, and so urgently. Are they constipated?
States must maintain accurate voting lists per the Help America Vote Act. You can’t do that if people register and are just there forever, despite moving or dying. Or being ineligible in the first place. Colorado found 2000 people who aren’t citizens but voted. So they want the feds’ database so they can confirm what they’ve found.
Self-reporting. Have you never filed a federal income tax return or something?
I see. So these Draconian Federal regulations demand that these things must be done in a pell-mell fashion, it is absolutely imperative that it be accomplished immediately, before then next election? And that no unseemly hint of partisan advantage seeking taints the motives of Mr. Scott, who’s unblemished record of personal and corporate honesty is a beacon to us all? But he is forced to comply with the brutal demands of the Federal government?
By the way, when searching for information about the number of Colorado voters affected, the number I mostly is 4,000, not 2,000. May we ask for a cite?