1.1 million voters PURGED from the voter rolls in Indiana...

[yourguide]

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/73758.html

HERE'S WHERE THE HEAVIEST PURGES ARE:

Lake 137,164 48% (Gary)
Porter 124,958 115% (Valparaiso)
Marion 68,120 10% (Indianapolis)
Monroe 66,009 85% (Bloomington)
Tippecanoe 53,456 58%
Madison 42,952 47% (Anderson)
Hamilton 42,325 26%

In April 2008 when Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita announced the release of "record high" voter registration rolls, with 4.3 million voters set to vote in the Tuesday May 6 primary, he didn't mention that a whopping 1,134,427 voter registrations have been cancelled.

Now, the voter rolls are supposed to be tidied up prior to each election. Indiana's last general election was in Nov. 2006, and they have had a slew of special and general elections since then. So how have 1.1 million voters -- 26 percent of the current statewide list -- escaped the regularly scheduled voter registration cleanup squads? Who are these million voters and where do they come from?

One quarter-million of them come from just two northwestern Indiana counties: Lake and Porter. Lake County reports purging 137,164 voters and neighboring Porter County cancelled out 124,958 voters.

Lake County, the home of Gary, Indiana, has spawned the Jackson Five and a great old musical (The Music Man) and and has been referred to as "the second most liberal county in America." Lake County has one of the heaviest concentrations of African-American voters that you'll find anywhere in the USA.

Nearby Porter County, the home of Valparaiso, is 95% white and went solidly for Bush in the 2004 election. It also has a lot of college kids.

[Skip Intro]

1. Bev Harris, eh?

[Mme. Defarge]

2. Now who would benefit from that? n/t

[Hoof Hearted]

9. It's Bev Harris - she has, um, issues.

[The Doctor.]

20. Yes she does. Are you saying that this purge is fiction?

She may be a whack-job, but it doesn't mean this isn't true.

[Turn CO Blue]

28. It's her figures that may be way off. There are only 6.3 million

people in Indiana to begin with...and figuring at least 20-25% are too young to vote, that would mean that if Bev's figures were true (there being approximately 5.4 million registered voters), that would represent way above a 100% voter registration rate of old-enough voters. Obviously, that's too high.

I don't know the full story yet, but the purge could actually be a good thing. Sounds like IN hasn't cleaned house in a long time.

That's how the Repukes could get us in the fall (all those long-dead voters somehow pulling a Lazarus for one day in November to vote their conscience as a Repub.)

We'll have to see how this story pans.

[RBInMaine]

3. WHY were these voters "purged"? Dead? Moved? In prison?? Is this true??

[yourguide]

4. Under the guise of "cleaning up" voter rolls. n/t

[RBInMaine]

10. "Cleaning Up" in what way? For what purposes(s) ostensibly?

[MH1]

19. You might want to read this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/5/141313/9290/18/509493

And yes, Bev Harris has NO credibility. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

[mystieus]

5. Damn! over 250k out of those two counties...

[yourguide]

7. With the bulk of them coming out of an overwhelmingly

AA district.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

6. ROFLMAO!!!!!!

[DeadElephant_ORG]

25. do explain why a "Democrat" like yourself would laugh at election fraud.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Hoof Hearted]

8. You do realize that woman has the credibility of a sewer snake, right?

DU don't do Bev Harris. There's a reason.

[yourguide]

12. Link pls?

[rinsd]

17. Google her name and Democratic Underground.

That will probably clear things up for you.

[RBInMaine]

11. What exactly does IN board of elections say about this?? Is it credible??

[Hawkeye-X]

13. Please do not post Bev Harris tripe or her website

I still have not forgiven her for her responsibility for the death of my friend Andy Stephenson.

It made watching Hacking Democracy VERY hard last week.

Plus she is a fraud.

Hawkeye-X

[berni_mccoy]

14. Speaking as an Obama supporter: I DO NOT TRUST Bev Harris or BBV.

[pkz]

15. one report~ legit source

There are other voting blocs being drawn in as well. One is new voters. In 2004, when President Bush and Senator John F. Kerry had already locked up their party's nominations by the time of the Indiana primary, the state had 4.16 million registed voters. Since then, even though the state subsequently purged 600,000 names of deceased or incarcerated voters from the rolls, its rolls are up to 4.31 million, for a net gain of about 750,000.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/26/turning_tide_in_indiana/?page=2

[NJSecularist]

16. All the "voters" that have been purged from the voting rolls were either duplicates, dead...

... or have moved.

Stop with the tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

Of course this will be Team Obama Excuse #1 if Obama loses in Indiana tommorow.

[JimGinPA]

18. I'm So Looking Forward To Your Last Week Of Obama Bashing...

You know, the one Skinner wrote about. It won't be long...

[NJSecularist]

21. I'm looking forward to the Hillary Clinton bashing stopping.

Will it ever happen?

[Patchuli]

22. Yup, when she takes her ball and goes home! nt

[barack the house]

23. I reckon they demand to vote tomorrow and contact the DNC if denied.

[Triana]

24. Oh here we go. Ye olde Repiglickan Voter Cleansing Lists...just wait till the GE

You ain't seen nuttin yet folks.

[nebulovsky]

26. If this were true, wouldn't the Obama campaign have impugned the elections by now?

Or wouldn't it be all over the news?

[Turn CO Blue]

27. BREAKING: This story has already been seriously questioned.

No offense to the OP, but I don't feel that this story from BBV has much credibility. Please go to this diary on DKos:

<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/5/141313/9290/18/509493>

Breaking: A State With a Population of 6.3 Million Can't Have 5.4 Million Registered Voters
by dedmonds
Mon May 05, 2008 at 11:22:29 AM PDT

~snip~

According the the most recent 2006 estimates, the state of Indiana has an approximate population of 6.3 million people. Given that probably at least a good 20-25% of that population would be too young to vote, a voter registration of 5.4 million would represent more than 100% of the voting age population of Indiana.

4.3 million would still represent a better than 90% registration, which is truly impressive in American politics.

So if there were 5.4 million registered voters, it's a good thing some of them were purged from the rolls.

Now, should there be some checking into the exact details of the purging? Almost certainly. But is the purging some sort of de facto sign of Evil Things afoot in Indiana?

Hardly.

~snip

bolding - mine

[L0oniX]

29. Without reading this op I'll take a wild guess ...it's a black district?