Justice Dept. sues Missouri for alleged vote violations
The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Missouri
for alleged voting law violations, claiming that people who have moved or died
may still be eligible to vote due to inaccurate and inflated registration
rolls.
The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Missouri for alleged voting law violations, claiming that people who have moved or died may still be eligible to vote due to inaccurate and inflated registration rolls.
The lawsuit contends the state is violating a federal law that requires it to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters. The state has wrongly delegated that duty to 116 local election jurisdictions, which are putting forth a shoddy and inconsistent effort, the lawsuit claims.
Some have left the names of dead people on the voter rolls, the Justice Department said. Others have failed to do meaningful reviews of voters rolls for people who have moved. Still others have taken voters off the rolls prematurely, the lawsuit says.
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The suit said 29 election jurisdictions had more registered voters last November than they did voting-age residents. The high mark was in Reynolds County, where voter rolls were at 151 percent of the county's 2004 census for voting age population.
Did the cemetery vote go for John Ashcroft or his dead opponent?
Posted: Wed - November 23, 2005 at 07:53 PM