Voter Purge in New York State
Voting rights watchdog Bo Lipari reports that more than 1,500,000 voters have been dropped from New York voter rolls. That includes voters designated as “inactive” or “purged.” Lipari, a retired software engineer who wrote a program to analyze documents he FOILed from the state’s voter registration base, says 14 percent of Erie County’s voters have been removed from the rolls—half marked as inactive and half purged completely. Those voters will not be able to vote at the polls on election day.
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Of course Mr. Lipari will put his program up on Slashdot and license it with the GPL so we can all read it and check out the assumptions in the code…
Comment by Doug Robinson — October 21, 2008 @ 11:42 am