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Monday, September 24, 2012

Cleaning Up Maryland Voter Rolls With New National System Won’t Happen Till After The Election


A new, national voter registration data exchange Maryland joined earlier this year to help clean up its voter rolls will not deliver necessary data to the State Board of Elections in time to scrub the lists before the Nov. 6 elections. The group – Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), did however provide timely data to the state board of elections that would help increase the number of registered voters, according to David Becker of The Pew Center on the States, the group that created the program. 


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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

No big rush... If Obama gets re-elected, there won't be any more elections, so we won;t neet "ERIC".
It would seem to me that if this machine has been working since "earlier this year" that at least SOME data has been compiled and could be applied prior to November 6th. Are they doing this by hand with pencil and paper? May I suggest using computers? I'd bet there's some college kids out there that could start today and have it 90% done in a couple of weeks....

Anonymous said...

we've had 4 years to clean this mess up since the last presidential election. knowing the problems with the DOJ and acorn and other deceptive groups; this should have been done much sooner.

Anonymous said...

Crooked politics in a crooked state, What do you expect?

Anonymous said...

We've had longer than four years if you want to go back to the 2000 election. Amazing how slowly this country moves with regard to things the politicos would have us believe is of the utmost importance.

Anonymous said...

that's convenient...