Say Anything Blog

This isn't supposed to be an issue right now.

CLEVELAND - Thousands of people who are registered voters in Ohio and Florida possibly could vote twice in the presidential election through use of absentee ballots, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday.

An investigation of voter rolls in the two key battleground states found that some double voting has occurred previously and could go undetected Tuesday, the newspaper said.

Many states have only just begun to compile statewide voter registration lists to comply with a 2002 federal voting law. Such lists allow state officials to find double registrations within a state, but states rarely coordinate with one another.

Virtually nothing prevents transitory voters from casting ballots in multiple states. In the 2000 presidential election, about 100 Ohio voters also cast ballots in Florida, where the presidential race was decided by just 537 votes, the northeast Ohio newspaper reported.

All partisanship aside, what in the hell do citizens have to do to light a fire under the collective asses of these politicians who are dragging their feet in fixing problems with our election process?

I know that states aren't required to compare registration lists with one another to check for doubles but if all these states had the lists required by law it wouldn't be all that hard to take the next step and check for dual registrations.