Paging Kathleen Harris. Kathleen Harris?

What qualifications does this lady have to determine if she's dead or not?

It's *illegal* for me to decide I should take a certain type of antibiotic, without a licensed medical doctor telling me it's okay and giving me a 'note' to get it. What gives her the right to decide she is alive?

impaler: Darth_Lukecash: I expect Florida will have a significant reduction in living people by the time of the election.

If it costs them an electoral vote in the next census, it might be worth it.

Shat. That's 8 years away.

There's going to be a census? I thought we canceled that commie program because it was taking money away from the oil companies.

baka-san: You're not fooling anybody

I feel happy. I feel happy.

Yay for voter roll purges! Thank goodness no one gets disenfranchised when we take steps to prevent voter fraud!

How do you know she's not dead?

MFAWG: iccky: I'm sure we can trust these people to only remove non-citizens from the voting rolls, and not other people of Hispanic decent who just happen to have the same name and/or birthdate. I'm sure they'll be good at that part of their job.

Forgive me if I seem to be drawing with a broad brush, but wouldn't alot of virulently anti-Castro Cuban Americans tend to vote Republican?

If they use 'Hispanic' as a yardstick they could cut off their nose to spite their faces. Which would be pretty lulzy.

Given Mitt Romney's investments in Iran, what makes you think he wouldn't be a supporter of Cuba?

Democrats in Chicago: "Wait... you're taking people OFF the voter rolls for being ALIVE? You're doing it BACKWARDS!"

Fark_Guy_Rob: What qualifications does this lady have to determine if she's dead or not?

It's *illegal* for me to decide I should take a certain type of antibiotic, without a licensed medical doctor telling me it's okay and giving me a 'note' to get it. What gives her the right to decide she is alive?

You can decide to take any antibiotic you like, what you CAN'T do is then sue the doctor for causing your anaphylaxis because you refused to check if you were allergic first.

She said it took her six months to clear that up, even as other government agencies picked up on word of her demise.

This is why you're not supposed to conduct voter purges within 6 months of an election, and exactly why Rick Scott is doing just that. You don't have to remove them permanently, you just have to keep them off the rolls long enough that they can't jump through the hoops at the department of health, the DMV, and the board of elections before November rolls around.

Removed from the voter rolls because someone dead has the same NAME?

WTF?

WE HAVE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THEY ARE UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS!!! WHY WOULD YOU USE NAMES FOR A DEATH LIST?!?!?!!?

/My name is ignominious cummerbund the third.
//But only on every alternate Tuesday every 3rd friday, and all days of the week that don't end in Y
///Otherwise I am known as Mcflufferton Abernathy.

Remember kiddies; when a Republican uses the term "voter fraud", what they really mean is "Too many brown people are allowed to vote."

Silverlock: Remember kiddies; when a Republican uses the term "voter fraud", what they really mean is "Too many brown people are allowed to vote."

This isn't even voter fraud though.

She was declared dead because someone with the same first name, middle initial, and last name died on the same day she was born.

Nevermind the fact they have different middle names, and their SSN's are completely different.

This is straight up stupidity.

This big.

Florida is the epicenter of crazy.

UsikFark: Ambivalence: Dahnkster: [www.tokyomango.com image 300x416]

You got ACORN on my Peanut Butter!

Are those Japanese toilets?

(sigh) the Japanese are such a weird people.

Yes, that's a novelty ice-cream modeled after a real Japanese toilet... you won't be laughing when you try to use the contoured ass-scoopers in the airport bathroom.

You means those three seashells? You don't know how to use them?

fusillade762: the error this year may have been initiated by the Social Security Administration

If only there were some kind of unique identifying number they could use...

That just might work, only if the Social Security people didn't screw up from time to time by giving people the same number when they are born the same day.

fluffy2097: Silverlock: Remember kiddies; when a Republican uses the term "voter fraud", what they really mean is "Too many brown people are allowed to vote."

This isn't even voter fraud though.

She was declared dead because someone with the same first name, middle initial, and last name died on the same day she was born.

Nevermind the fact they have different middle names, and their SSN's are completely different.

This is straight up stupidity.

And the reason behind all that is the voter purge instituted to combat "voter fraud".

Silverlock: And the reason behind all that is the voter purge instituted to combat "voter fraud".

You didn't read the article. This was NOT a voter purge. She was declared DEAD. The IRS thought she was dead, Social Security thought she was dead, the DMV thought she was dead, every government agency thought she was dead.

And this isn't even the first time it's happened to her. She got a certificate to show government agencies to prove shes not dead.

All because the states 'dead list' does not use Social Security Numbers, but instead First and Last names, and gets confused if someone dies on the same day you're born.

If this was just part of a voter purge, why all the other bullshiat? I

Rick Scott was declared dead by a Supervisor of Elections once; I'm not convinced that he wasn't...

/eerie music

Silverlock: fluffy2097: Silverlock: Remember kiddies; when a Republican uses the term "voter fraud", what they really mean is "Too many brown people are allowed to vote."

This isn't even voter fraud though.

She was declared dead because someone with the same first name, middle initial, and last name died on the same day she was born.

Nevermind the fact they have different middle names, and their SSN's are completely different.

This is straight up stupidity.

And the reason behind all that is the voter purge instituted to combat "voter fraud".

The reason behind it is to win the next election. They know these laws will get thrown out as soon as they are challenged - but first, they have to be enforced on someone. Then, it will be too late. Their hope is that they can lcok the country down before the inevitable swing to the left happens - and they will fail, of course, just like they did last time. But that won't stop them trying.

AqueousBoy: It's actually a good idea to spend a year dead for tax reasons.



Agrees...

Look, it's very simple. Just purge the voter rolls of anyone who is not registered as a Republican. As we all know, the only people who vote Democrat are dead people, fictional characters and minorities.

"pretty sure she knows that she's the furthest thing from dead"
Undead?

Not to put too fine a point on it but is this twunt at it again?

She got better?

after looking at the article i just clicked on the Jenny McCarthy playboy cover

now thats effective advertising!

If she's on the Social Security death list, that means her SSN has probably been released as public information... she might want to check that out.

You take one nap in a ditch and people start declaring you this and that.

She should move to Chicago, then it won't be an issue.

TWX: iccky: I'm sure we can trust these people to only remove non-citizens from the voting rolls, and not other people of Hispanic decent who just happen to have the same name and/or birthdate. I'm sure they'll be good at that part of their job.

Anyone who removes an eligible voter from the rolls for any reason has violated that voter's civil rights. The official in question should face immediate dismissal and be liable for civil suit from the voter in question, both as the officeholder and personally.

I have an idea. Let's let every citizen vote. Pollsters do not have to set up polling in mental hospitals or in prisons, but if patients or inmates are smart enough to request an absentee ballot then they can vote. I'd even give them a choice- register to vote in the last jurisdiction in which they were free, or register in the jurisdiction in which they now reside. If the prisoner/ex-con bloc is so substantial that it's a real danger to a political party, then perhaps it's actually important that they be heard. Sure that'd screw with those prison-industrial-complex towns in Texas, but perhaps they and that industry could stand to have a little reform.

The real voter fraud is denying citizens their right to vote, not a couple-dozen non-citizens who checked the "register to vote" option when signing up for their drivers' licenses...

Right. A board of elections worker makes $30,000/year and he should be subject to a federal lawsuit for every mistake he makes in processing a million names.

Only when borderline poor people spend their life savings on legal defenses will we all be free.

Florida tag? Let me guess - she's a democrat.

angryjd: TWX: iccky: I'm sure we can trust these people to only remove non-citizens from the voting rolls, and not other people of Hispanic decent who just happen to have the same name and/or birthdate. I'm sure they'll be good at that part of their job.

Anyone who removes an eligible voter from the rolls for any reason has violated that voter's civil rights. The official in question should face immediate dismissal and be liable for civil suit from the voter in question, both as the officeholder and personally.

I have an idea. Let's let every citizen vote. Pollsters do not have to set up polling in mental hospitals or in prisons, but if patients or inmates are smart enough to request an absentee ballot then they can vote. I'd even give them a choice- register to vote in the last jurisdiction in which they were free, or register in the jurisdiction in which they now reside. If the prisoner/ex-con bloc is so substantial that it's a real danger to a political party, then perhaps it's actually important that they be heard. Sure that'd screw with those prison-industrial-complex towns in Texas, but perhaps they and that industry could stand to have a little reform.

The real voter fraud is denying citizens their right to vote, not a couple-dozen non-citizens who checked the "register to vote" option when signing up for their drivers' licenses...

Right. A board of elections worker makes $30,000/year and he should be subject to a federal lawsuit for every mistake he makes in processing a million names.

Only when borderline poor people spend their life savings on legal defenses will we all be free.

In an ideal world, a bureaucrat, knowing the liability, would never, ever err on the side of disenfranchisement essentially without proof that mandates it.

Pass stricter laws to register in the first place for future voters if you wish- birth certificate or social security card or naturalization certificate or what have you. Once you're in, you're in.

fluffy2097: The IRS thought she was dead

Damn. If the IRS thought I was dead I'm not sure I would correct them.

Concurs.

How many dead Republicans are being removed from the voter roles?

Mad-n-FL: How many dead Republicans are being removed from the voter roles?

Probably about 50%