Registered to vote —maybe not

The WaPost explains how statewide databases may throw out many voter registrations when voter registration lists are compared to information from driver’s licenses or state IDs. It’s all part of the Help America Vote Act, which was designed to get state databases, searchable online, as the basis for checking registrations. That said, at least one in five “errors” may not be.

The graphic below, from Electoral-Vote, illustrates the issue.



And, the McCain campaign and the GOP have politicized the whole issue, presumably to keep people, especially first-time voters and even more so, first-time minority voters, from the polls.