In a message dated 11/2/2004 10:40:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is no mechanism that cancels your OLD registration address just
because you registered at a NEW address. The City has no way of knowing that
the "Gina Renzi" who lives at one address is the same "Gina Renzi" who lives
at another address.
This is not totally accurate. Voter registration forms used in Pennsylvania
request information (blocks 4a & 4b) regarding voter name, address, and year
on/of previous registration. This enables the counties to make name changes
(marriage) and polling place changes.
There are additional tracking measures available, including City
Commissioner employees physically inspecting buildings and confirming residencies. This
practice is rarely executed in Philadelphia, even after a request is made
with the Commissioner's office.
In general the City has no way of cross checking registrations and only a minimal ability to identify actual registrants. This is one of the major issues concerning voter fraud.
If an individual does in fact re-register and fills out the form correctly, their registration will be marked in the former and entered at the later.
However.
With the HAVA (I think, but it may have been other legislation) there has been a change in the ability of the City Commissioners to DELETE (or strike) anyone from the voter rolls.
The Pollbook (formerly called the "binder") contains an assortment of "clues" to the Election Board about the status of individual voters as determined by the Commissioners during the registration period.
If you go to your old poling place, you should be confronted by an Election Board member with the need to provide both identification AND to complete an affidavit of eligibility. That affidavit states that you in fact do reside at that address and are not registered at another location; OR that you have in fact moved to another location. Legally, you can only vote at one location, but you could vote at either.
On election day, the Election Board can indicate in the Pollbook itself that any individual is or is not a legitimate resident of the division, deceased, and/or make changes to various entries about an individual (spelling, age, address, etc.)
Another situation requiring and Affidavit is that of an "Inactive Voter" -- someone who has not voted in that division in an election (primary or general) in the previous 2 years. Again all this information is detailed in the "Newspaper" supplied by the City Commissioners and at the Training sessions.
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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