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Originally Posted by JGVillages
My Brother-in-Law in California received 2 Ballots for their recent current election. One was addressed to Lawrence ***** and the other to Larry *****.
Even if a ballot is requested, the government and it’s affiliated agencies, will find a way to screw it up often enough to make the accuracy of a mass Presidential vote questionable at best. With the technology available now days, if our lawmakers really wanted prioritize developing an accurate and efficient voting system, it would be in place. Unfortunately government and inefficiency are synonymous so here we are again and again.
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At the heart of the matter is the fact that the individual state voter registration reference files are not being maintained in real time...they are not current. People move, people die, people change their names and the voter registration reference files are not updated/purged in real time.
When we moved to FL and registered to vote here we never notified the state that we left asking them to remove us from their voter registration file. You just trust that the new state will inform the previous state. Well, as Dr. Phil asks: "How's that going for you?"....how high up is that on the priority list given the budget crunch every state is currently dealing with?
Certainly seems like the death certificates aren't being entered into many of the state reference files. Years after my father passed we received a new blue 'handicap' tag you hang on the rearview mirror in the mail for him. If the death certificate didn't purge the state's reference files, certainly you'd have thought that the final income tax filed for a deceased person would have done it. Nope...sounds like every program uses it's own reference file and they're not synchronized across departments.
Remember Florida couldn't convert to the EZ Pass for years because their software was different and they didn't have sufficient funds to make the s/w changes needed. So we had onw device for the FL Turnpike and another for every other state going up the Atlantic seaboard that collected tolls. I still carry both...just to be sure.
I mention that because there's every reason to believe that every state may have a 'home grown' unique voter registration reference file system that isn't capable of talking to another state's system...maybe they're 'mapping' the voter registration change information sent to them from another state, but maybe they're still keying it in somewhere down in the basement too....lol
I oversaw a group that was tasked with managing the timeliness and accuracy of the finance and procurement system's reference files used on a worldwide basis for a Fortune 100 Hi Tech company....took them awhile to get the files under control....but it took years to get everyone around the globe to change their 'unique' programs to be able to use the right worldwide files at the right time....we threw tons of $$$$ at it and I'd put money down that some folks are still 'mapping').
Anyone that thinks the states could clean up their voter registration files in time to accurately generate and send out ballots to only legitimate voters for the upcoming elections never worked in the belly of this beast.
Now, absentee ballots are a different animal...the states should be able to individually verify that the information in the data base is aligned with the information on the request.
Combine the likelihood of outdated/inaccurate reference files with the question of whether the USPS could actually handle this volume on a timely basis and you have a perfect storm on the horizon