Wait a cotton pickin' minute - NH is now Chicago?
Found this excerpt of a report on CNSNews:
In New Hampshire, there are 18,816 dead people on the voter registration rolls, or 2.5 percent of the total registered voters. There are 105,472 voters that have moved outside of the area where they are registered to vote.
The report, by the Aristotle International company does some nifty cross matching and shows another government FAIL.
Here's my problem(s) with this (no, not with Aristotle - NH):
- Zombies aren't all that welcome at the polls, and I want no reason to see ACORN at our Middle School on voting day
- That 105K (of a state population of 1.3 million) aren't tracked correctly is not small.
Now the real rub? Our Supervisors of the Checklist (SotCs)in my NH hamlet of 7,400 lobbied HARD to get a raise. Unlike a lot of States, most of our elected folks serve for free - I receive no hourly pay or even a yearly stipend for being on our Budget Committee. Our Selectmen only get a stipend. The SotCs not only get a stipend based on the number of elections there are in a year but also an hourly wage.
Part of their "reasoning" was that a State mandated "special project" took up a lot of unplanned time on their part - it turned out that it was a multi-year project to:
Clean up the voter rolls - clear out the dead and account for "movers"
They were quite proud of the work and that the State was fully behind it.
Yeah, that seems to have worked out real well now, eh?
