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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12584)	11/3/1998 3:53:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

Critics charge that the Justice Department, aided by the 1993 Motor Voter law, is encouraging voter fraud in many areas. Here is a small sample of the instances they cite: At least 12 percent of the names appearing on California voter rolls aren't eligible to vote -- but the Justice Department has consistently blocked the state's efforts to cleanse the list of people who have moved, died or can no longer vote for various reasons. The Justice Department is reportedly forcing Texas officials to let admitted noncitizens vote by blocking local governments from comparing their voter registration lists with Immigration and Naturalization Service records. The Justice Department just settled a case against Pennsylvania that will require the state to expand voter registration efforts at county mental health and mental retardation agencies. Newspaper reporters in Boston and in Mobile, Ala., tested the security of their areas' voter registration systems by sending in multiple fraudulent voting applications -- which were processed and approved. The Boston reporter successfully registered his cat to vote three times, while Alabama authorities accepted five applications with phony names. States also bear responsibility for some fraud. The Voting Integrity Project sought to prevent Maryland from making bulk mailings of absentee ballots to nursing homes, where administrators frequently forge registrations and ballots under residents' names. A federal judge acknowledged the potential for abuse, but ruled there would be greater harm if voters didn't receive ballots in time. As well as allowing people to register at motor vehicle department offices, the Motor Voter law required local officials to let people register in every welfare and food stamp office. Source: James Bovard, "The Federal Voter-Fraud Mandate," Investor's Business Daily, and Editorial, "Eroding Elections," Wall Street Journal, both November 3, 1998.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12584)	11/3/1998 6:12:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<Of course you are always going to have some people that register to vote illegally when there are no controls like we have out here.>> The photo id was nixed in Illinois because of Chicago. People who have been dead don't look so good in photos. More people vote in Chicago than live there.