How would the NC Election Board be able to track down if I voted more than once using the following process? I vote early is Wilson County where I live. I go and change my address on my Drivers license to my mother's address in Raleigh. I then take my new drivers license and register and vote in Wake county early voting. I basically would be voting twice and if I really wanted to try a third time I could possibly change my address again to a different county in NC where a relative lives and vote there as well. Isn't this a possibility? I just may try it and see what happens. Fletch
Fletch
If you have not lived at the address for at least 30 days, you cannot register and vote on the same day. You can register, fill out a provisional ballot, but the law states that if you "move" you must have lived at that address for at least 30 days to be eligible to vote. If you have questions, you should call the Board of Elections because you are not informed as to the procedures that are in place that would catch the fraud that you are showing as examples. Please call the Board of Elections and they will explain how they have those conditions covered. Also, please don't try it because you will be prosecuted. It is a felony and you sound like you are a concerned citizen.
Van, you are conflating early voting (which began in 2000 in North Carolina) with voter registration at early voting sites (which began in 2007). The process of checking in already registered voters at early voting sites is not really any different than on election day, except the entire county database is checked rather than just the database for one precinct. For those new voters registering at early voting sites, identification is required. About 40,000 new voters registered at early voting sites in North Carolina in the presidential primary. In 2004, over 700,000 North Carolinians used early voting. I am not aware of even one case of fraud in that process. I worked seven days at an early voting site in Wake County in 2004, and I'm working 12 days at the same site starting tomorrow.
Unless and until we treat election day as a national holiday, allowing all Americans the time off of work to vote, it will be necessary to have flexible methods for voting. It's far worse to disenfranchise would-be voters than any "risk" people would want you to think exists.
And thanks, Gerry, for sharing the facts about early voting & same-day registration!
I don't see anything wrong with early voting, it's even better because the lines are shorter
It should be required for everyone to register at least a month before they vote, so to cut down on fraud.
When voting the person shoud have to show some identification before they can vote.
If any fraud is found there shoud be jail time.
As they say in Chicago, Vote Early , Vote as many times as you can with your Fraudulent Acorn registrations.
Let's Enjoy the upcoming Thugocracy compliments of Barack Hussein Obama!
you all need to be a shame of yourselves. you all know that obama voters can't vote twice. if that was true, we would have voted twice when bush became president twice. what i'm saying, do this make any since!
your a f...ing idiot
Yet another racist anonymous comment from the N&O viewing public. You should be proud of your constituents!
Ignorant and Shameful human beings, if you can call yourselves human beings.
it is scary
i'm a little weary because lots could happen to those ballots. no matter who wins it needs to be fair and we don't need a repeat of 2000 and what happened in florida.