Voter fraud hard to prove; fears spark legislation

[struggle4progress]

... Through an open records request, we compiled a list of 1,980 people who a Wake County Clerk of Court's database showed were excused from jury service because they were a "Non Citizen of State." We then compared those names to State Board of Elections voter records.

Of 169 possible matches, WRAL News was able to determine all but 83 were either not the same people or had good reason to be in both data sets. For example, as with one of the subjects of the O'Keefe video, we found individuals who were excused from jury duty and later became naturalized U.S. citizens. Others, who had moved out of North Carolina, were clearly mislabeled as non-citizens in the court database.

For the 83 remaining matches, who could not be located or would not speak to WRAL News, the State Board of Election documented that the people in question were legal voters using information from the Division of Motor Vehicles and other sources ...

http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/11107478/

[unc70]

1. Actually a decent coverage by WRAL

Most of the posts on wral.com obviously did not read the actual article, certainly not past the second paragraph.

There were several progressives posting, enough to keep the discussions honest, not that anyone will be swayed in either direction.

[barbtries]

2. i didn't read the article

because of the title. fear of fraud is not the reason for the legislation. making it hard for democrats to win elections is the reason. maybe i'll go read the article now.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

3. Exactly. It's a "solution" to a statistically non-existent problem

being offered under false pretenses in order to keep those who typically vote Democratic from voting at all.