'Apparent Errors' Found In Battle Ground State Voter Rolls
More than 1,200 possible duplicate rolls. Same birth year. Same address. October 13 deadline.
Summary
- The Daily Wire reports the Public Interest Legal Foundation told the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Tuesday that voter rolls in the state's 10 most populous counties contain more than 1,200 potentially duplicated registration records.
- The flagged records shared a birth year and an address with another registration. Half of the possible duplicates sat in Guilford and Cumberland counties.
- Research director Logan Churchwell wrote that the twins likely come from spelling variants, nicknames, typos, or married-name confusion, and asked the board to investigate and fix pollbooks. He set an official-response deadline of Oct. 13 and warned of a Help America Vote Act complaint if the board does not act.
- PILF sent a similar letter last year and says North Carolina has since improved list maintenance. Churchwell told the Wire the new letter is meant to finish that work before November Election Day. The board did not immediately respond.
Commentary
A Cumberland mill dad still punches a clock and knows a voter roll is supposed to mean one name, one address, one vote, not 1,200 twin lines that share a birth year. He did not pay the levy so a nickname typo could sit through November.
10 big counties. Half in Guilford and Cumberland. Oct. 13 or a HAVA fight. The vinyl chair in that elections office still holds the household that already bought the ID.
Look every working father who still stands in a November line in the eye and answer this: if 1,200 twin records already sat on the 10-county pull, who still owns the next pollbook a board leaves dirty past Oct. 13?
Comments
1,200-plus twins. Same year and address. Oct. 13. Keep those three stamps.
I stood a gate so a roll still meant one vote. A nickname twin is not a weather report.
Guilford and Cumberland half. HAVA threat. Board silent so far. Print the three.
Allied rolls still treat a duplicate address as a breach, not a filing quirk.
PILF. 10 counties. Improved since last year, not finished. File the three.
I still smell diesel at 2 a.m. I want the next twin line off the book.
A November twin roll is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
A 1,200-line pile next to an Oct. 13 clock is a second border around every honest precinct.
The Wire printed 1,200, Guilford, and Oct. 13. Argue those nouns.
Hold the deadline. Clean the twins. A dirty pollbook is not a souvenir.
