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With all the voter fraud stories last week, I don’t know why this didn’t get more attention (either that or there is a huge gap in my political news consumption habit) — from the conservative Civitas Institute in Raleigh, NC:
So far in early voting 110 year olds have made a pretty good showing; 2214 of them have voted either by mail or at a one-stop site (214 by mail and 2,000 at early voting sites). There are 1,420 Democrats in this group, 717 Republicans and 77 Unaffiliated voters.
Nothing against very old voters, but it is funny that these 110 year olds live in only 34 counties and 87 percent of them live in 4 counties - Guilford has voted 681 of them so far, Forsyth - 581, Cumberland - 427 and Davidson voted 230.
So if you want to increase your odds of living (and voting) longer, move to Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Pete| 11.2.10 @ 11:15AM
My Yahoo home page is serving up ad after ad with Sarah Palin's picture saying basically "don't let her win - get out and vote." I was unaware that she was up for election today?
Sean| 11.2.10 @ 11:20AM
I would think there is less than one hundred 110 year olds in the USA. It certainly should be investigated if true. It is either voter fraud or a big time governmental error with the voting register.
dennis2j| 11.2.10 @ 11:52AM
Not to worry, Sean. Once the major provisions of Ocare kick in, there will be a lot fewer elderly folks around, although I suspect the cut-off will be somewhat younger than 110.
PattyMor| 11.2.10 @ 11:52AM
Hey in Chicago & Cook Country the dead also vote. What's amazing is these "living dead" only vote DemoCrat. So 110 year olds voting isn't so unnatural when you put it in perspective.
Flee| 11.2.10 @ 12:25PM
It's clearly because they all smoke 2 packs a day being on tobacco road. Probably eat bacon and eggs for breakfast too with lots of coffee and sugar and cream. All keys to a long and happy life. You can even vote without leaving the house. Is this a great country or what?
Booger Jr| 11.2.10 @ 12:43PM
From the desk of Poseiden (rhymes with Biden), Lord of the Underworld
Duh, I let some of my recent prisoners take furloughs for good...err, bad....behavior. Of course they vote Demonicratic.
Possy
Joyce McCloy | 11.5.10 @ 3:04PM
I was alarmed when I read this post here and at Civitas, so I emailed Don Wright, the General Counsel for the NC State Board of Elections to ask for an explanation.
Here's Mr. Wright's reply today:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Civitas writes that 2,214 "110 year olds" voted in NC
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:17:24 -0400
From: Wright, Don
To: Joyce McCloy
Joyce,
When a county does not have a birth date for a voter, they use a default date for that voters birth date and most counties use 1/1/1900. If these voters show up to vote, the pollworkers inquire as to their correct birth date and that information is added. Over the past few years, we have reduced the number of default birth date voters. And after this election the number of default birth date voters will be reduced even further.
There were millions of voters transferred from the county paper VR records to the Statewide VR database around 2000. Some of the county’s older VR data did not have the voter’s birth date and it was not required at the time that voter registered. Since that time, we have be able to reduce the number of such voters down to a little over two thousand.
Sincerely,
Don Wright
General Counsel
NC State Board of Elections