Katherine Harris x's 50!!! Voter "cleansing" off of registration DB's [View All]

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Katherine Harris x's 50!!! Count on it. Huge disruptions. GET THIS TO YOUR DEMOCRAIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE. This is how they've aready "hacked" the election. Just read the article. Voter registration database "cleansing" sponsored by the Help America Vote Act.

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17616&ch=infotech

Monday, October 16, 2006
Computerized Voter Registration Databases Need a Major Overhaul

Political scientist Thad Hall says federal standards
are required to prevent state electronic registration
databases from disenfranchising people.

By Katherine Bourzac

Voters can get purged from the rolls because there are no federal electronic standards for maintaining registration databases.

What Americans should be most worried about this November, say elections experts like Thad Hall, a political scientist at the University of Utah, is not that someone might hack the Diebold machine they're using to vote--but that their names might disappear from the rolls entirely. According to him, the greatest risks of fraud or disenfranchisement concern voter registration.

As Hall spells out in a report for the IBM Center for Business and Government, voter registration databases are difficult to maintain because there are no electronic standards for creating them. That makes it hard for elections officials to compare their databases with motor-vehicle registries and prison records--let alone other states' elections records.

Earlier this year, the state of Kentucky was sued by its attorney general for attempting to remove 8,000 voters from the rolls--without notifying them--based on a comparison of its database with those in Tennessee and South Carolina, in search of voters registered in multiple states. Hall says that if the state had not been sued, many voters would have been disenfranchised because of database errors.