Reply #4: It's the same problem ACORN had in 2004, for the [View All]

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dems. They passed the problem off on the personal quirks and foibles of the people they hired. The MSM acknowledged the problem, the reasons given, and the issue mostly died as a PR problem. Except among die-hard RW partisans.

The only people that actually profit from mis-registering voters are the people getting paid to do the registering. There might be a small partisan advantage, but all it means is that the voters can't vote in their party's primaries without reregistering. (But wait ... in this case, isn't California an open primary state? ...)

There may be a small PR bump from being able to say "We registered 2 trillion new voters as republicans" (or democrats), but I'm not sure how much anybody pays attention to such drivel--it may serve to get out the opposing party's vote as much as to energize the party's base, or make them lethargic; but the downside is the reports when those misregistered voters actually vote in the elections: "Of those 2 trillion new voters, apparently 98% voted democrat" (or republican).

Bounties for registration should be banned, if such a ban would be Constitutional; they just corrupt the process. Then again, the party-based registration system also produces the occasional glitch.