The Incredible Disappearing Indiana Voter Rolls

[kster]

Bev Harris

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.

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%



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[gateley]

1. Anyone looking into this? Any regulatory agency?

Anything that can be done?

[global1]

3. Probably Too Late.....

Now we know why Hillary sides with McCain and hangs with Scaife and Murdock. Guess she sold her soul to the devil to get a win in Indiana any way she could. Her only goal is to be the president. I guess if the shoe were on the other foot in FL and MI - she wouldn't mind not counting them.

[gateley]

5. If they find fraud, the perps could be prosecuted

at a later date, right? It might be too late for tomorrow's primary, but it shouldn't be allowed to go uninvestigated. (According to spell check, there is no such word as uninvestigated, but I'm leaving it in anyway.)

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Hmmm. Now I know Clinton's in kahoots with BushCo ! Sickening.

Just sickening.

[Fresh_Start]

4. here's an article at KOS which is worth reading

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

[kster]

6. Look at the comments, Bob Kohler

"I do not equate my oppression with the oppression of blacks and Latinos. You can't. It is not the same struggle, but it is one struggle." Bob Kohler

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