They saw things at the poll that shocked them, so they decided to look into the actual voter registrations. They organized volunteers and with 30 donated computers, the group called True the Vote made some astonishing revelations.
“The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them" [Catherine] Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. "Most voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .
"But we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking."
See full article at Foxnews.com.
It happened to be a poor black neighborhood, and the Democrat reactions seemed to come from a template. For example, Contempt for Democracy - attacks on voting rights. But the voter rolls contained people who were registered as many as six times, underaged, or who identified themselves as non-citizens.
Most of the questionable voter registrations were secured by a group called Houston Votes -- Harris County report pdf -- which was headed by a fellow who was employed by the Service Employees International Union and which is a voter registration arm of Texans Together. See Houston Chronicle.
The Harris County voter registrar turned the information over to the district attorney, and one can only hope that the Harris County D.A. will serve the public better than U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has done in the realm of protecting the vote.
Added: Is voting too difficult? No, it's very easy, and some are trying to make it even easier. Turbovote, for example, is raising money to set up a program that will do practically everything for the voter. They compare it to Netflix. Once the project is fully funded the voter in one of the 29 states which allows no-excuse mail-in ballots can sign up, and they'll mail an absentee ballot to the voter with a prepaid stamped envelope for mailing to the appropriate registrar.
This is Seth from TurboVote, thanks for bringing us up, would really like your support. After our prototype run and fundraising drive is over, I'll have some more time and would love to talk with you about the different ways we're planning to use this system to clean up the nation's voter rolls and make voter fraud more difficult.
Posted by: Seth Flaxman | October 15, 2010 at 08:34 AM
Thanks for the comment, Seth.
I was skeptical at first, but if you are serious about combating voter fraud, then more power to you.
Posted by: Geo | October 16, 2010 at 05:43 AM