Seawytch
Information isnt Advocacy
- Aug 5, 2010
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Because a voter's date of birth is inconsequential at the polls.Who says they're not changing them? They just haven't changed them all yet. It's entirely possible they're only fixing the birhdate when there's a change requested to the status of each affected registrant.Really, from the link:
The Institute found 45,880 votes cast by individuals whose dates of birth were more than 115 years before the election.
I don't think we have that many 115 years old people in the country, if any.
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That's because before a certain date, registration forms did not ask for year of birth. When registrars went to a computer based system that required one, these voters were given a year, usually like 1900.
They've been required for more than 20 years, why aren't States maintaining their rolls?
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How hard is to check a DOB when a person votes. What you're describing is apathy on the part of registrars.
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It's not printed anywhere at the polls and you can bet your butt there would be screaming if registrars started printing date of birth on rosters.