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Offline Chris

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No-confidence vote on voter rolls
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Detroit election officials confirmed Monday what an analysis of census and population records shows: The city has more registered voters than it has residents over the voting age of 18.

But Detroit is doing nothing wrong. The problem? The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which took effect in 1995, requires local officials to wait two federal election cycles before purging their voter rolls. That means that all cities carry ineligible voters each year.

Kurt Metzger -- director of the Detroit Area Community Information System, the city's newest data center -- did the new analysis using 2000 U.S. Census data, SEMCOG population figures and the age distribution report in the 2007 American Community Survey.

He estimates that Detroit's population is about 853,000, which includes 603,000 people over 18 -- 30,000 fewer than the city reported as its total of registered voters.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090407/COL10/904070358/City+s+registered+voters+exceed+eligible+citizens

Ahhh, the good old days of the Clinton administration... more "good intentions" from the liberal left.
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Gee, I wonder why they're so opposed to Voter ID?   ::)
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I wonder how many votes were cast in Detroit last election, and what the margin for the state was...

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No-confidence vote on voter rolls
Ahhh, the good old days of the Clinton administration... more "good intentions" from the liberal left.

what is so hard about making people register before every election??

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what is so hard about making people register before every election??
Digging them up and re-burying them.
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