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Cemetery by kathleenie on flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

By Glynis Kazanjian
\nGlynis@MarylandReporter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

At least two dead voters showed up to vote at least once in a Maryland general election between 2004 and 2008, according to a voter registration watchdog group that has reviewed thousands of voter records this year, 1% of the rolls in the largest counties.<\/p>\n

The group \u2013 Election Integrity Maryland<\/a> (EIM) \u2013 filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections Aug. 30. The group said it found several potential dead voters, voters who registered after they had died and a living Maryland resident who has been voting twice in elections for years.<\/p>\n

According to their research, voter registration numbers for Montgomery County resident Rufus Harris of Silver Spring, who died in 2002, was used to cast an absentee ballot in the 2008 general election. Prince George\u2019s County resident George T. Zell of Hyattsville, who died in July 2004, cast \u00a0a vote in the 2004 general election. Records also indicated that Harris became registered as a voter on Sept. 4, 2008, six years after his death.<\/p>\n

The group also identified two deceased people who were registered to vote after their deaths. James Proctor of Laurel died in 1988 and became registered in 1992, and Virginia Ann Given of Upper Marlboro, who died in 1991, also became registered in 1992. Both names remain on the Maryland rolls today as \u201cinactive\u201d voters, although neither have cast a vote under their new voter registration numbers, according to data provided by EIM.<\/p>\n

Mary Dowling, 67, who currently resides in a nursing home in Timonium, has two voter registration numbers. The latest voting records that are available show Dowling has been voting twice in almost every even-year election since 2002, in both the general and the primary. Ten out of 16 times Dowling voted by absentee ballot.<\/p>\n

The last election Dowling said she remembered voting in was the 2006 gubernatorial election, when she said she voted for Republican candidate Robert Ehrlich. Beyond that, Dowling said she doesn\u2019t believe she voted in either the 2008 or 2010 elections, or that she ever voter twice.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>How Election Integrity did its research<\/strong><\/p>\n

EIM used the website familysearch.org<\/a> to verify death records. Election Integrity Maryland President Cathy Kelleher says it links to the Social Security death index. Data from Voter Vault<\/a>, a U.S. voter database used by the Republican Party, was used to verify voting records.<\/p>\n

According to State Board Voter Registration Director Mary Wagner, staff is currently investigating the inquiry. However, Wagner did not say when the inquiry may be resolved, nor would she comment on any names on the complaint that may have been eliminated.<\/p>\n

It did appear, however, that some of the names on the complaint had been removed from official voter rolls. During a second review of the records, Kelleher said she found that some names had changed from \u201cactive\u201d to \u201cinactive,\u201d and some of the duplicate registrations now had only one active registration record, implying they had been merged.<\/p>\n

\u201cAvailability of information had changed when I went back to review records from our Aug. 30 submission,\u201d said Kelleher. \u201cFor some, only one record of the two was available.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the watchdog group was able to verify its own findings against official voting records, Kelleher said she is waiting for the state board\u2019s final confirmation.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding evidence that even one person that died voted after the date of their death is hugely concerning,\u201d said Kelleher. \u201cThe question is how does this happen, how can we stop it? Interestingly, EIM has learned that there isn’t one person, one department or one agency who is charged with \u2018looking for\u2019 voter fraud. Small surprise that the standard line is that \u2018There is no voter fraud in Maryland.\u2019 \u00a0If you don’t look for it, you won’t find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Voting by KClvey on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

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If you don\u2019t look for fraud, you won\u2019t find it<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSince no one is looking from the State Board of Elections or even within the legislature, EIM continues to look for evidence of irregularities and fraud,\u201d she said. \u201cWith what we have found in just about 1% of the total voter rolls in Maryland, we have only just begun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Election Integrity Maryland has become a thorn in the side to many election officials. It has reviewed over 35,000 voter registration files in Maryland and has filed 11,000 irregularity challenges this year with local election boards. The group incorporated in July 2011 and began its research operations last November. It has a team of over 125 researchers, and each county has a leader.<\/p>\n

Kelleher, one of EIM\u2019s founding members, became inspired to start a voter registration watchdog group after listening to former Acorn whistleblower Anita MonCrief speak about a voter fraud group \u2013 TRUEtheVOTE<\/a> \u2013 at a national Tea Party Patriots meeting in 2010. The following year Kelleher and two colleagues attended a TRUEtheVOTE summit in Houston and came back to Maryland \u201cset about putting our group together.\u201d<\/p>\n

To date, the group has researched 1% of Maryland\u2019s registered voting population in five counties — Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Montgomery, Prince George\u2019s and Wicomico. Its findings have revealed 1,500 deceased still on active voter registration rolls, nearly 700 duplicate voter registrations — many out of state — and several hundred voters who listed a vacant lot or business address as their residential address. Thousands were identified as having address inconsistencies.<\/p>\n

Just scratched the surface<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving just scratched the surface of Maryland voter registration research, we have found hundreds of duplicate registrations, some within the state of Maryland, others in both Maryland and in one other state,\u201d said Catharine Trauernicht, vice president of Election Integrity Maryland. \u201cWe know the boards are looking into our research, but [we] have not been told specifically which of our irregularities cited have been, in fact, corrected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prince George\u2019s and Montgomery Counties, Maryland\u2019s two largest counties, have the largest numbers of inconsistencies so far.<\/p>\n

In Prince George\u2019s County alone, the group identified nearly 500 dead people still on active registration rolls. Several hundred voters were found to be registered twice \u2013 primarily in Maryland and another state, and 400 voters listed vacant lots or businesses as their residential addresses.<\/p>\n

Election officials questioned some of the research methods used by Election Integrity such as newspaper obituary notices, which is an unacceptable form of death verification under state law, and Facebook, which Election Integrity said they stopped using \u201clong ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop the Prince George\u2019s election board from sending out over 750 verification letters based on the group\u2019s findings. State law<\/a> requires local election boards verify death reports when they are received \u201cin the form of an obituary or other reliable report.\u201d The state board generally confirms its information from state death certificates provided by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware that the Board of Elections will not recognize some of our sources,\u201d said Kelleher. \u201cOur job however is not to do their job. We use publicly available data to point them to areas they should be verifying. Only the BOE and the Maryland attorney general can remove anyone from the rolls. We just want them to do the job they are paid for at the board of elections, protect our voting system from fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research methods have evolved<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kelleher pointed out that research methods for her group have evolved since their work began last November. Sites they use such as Tributes.com and familysearch.org both pull data from the Social Security Death Index, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy volunteers are using sites that require membership such as beenverified.com,\u201d Kelleher said. \u201cBut not all of my volunteers can afford its $97 per year membership fee. The information is current and correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a written response to Election Integrity, the Prince George’s board indicated the balance of inquiries, about 2,300 \u2013 most of which were address related \u2013 would be updated after sample ballots are mailed out, which is about 10 days prior to a major election.<\/p>\n

Part of the local election boards\u2019 methodology for verifying addresses is based on whether or not the sample ballot is returned by the U.S. Postal Service for a bad address.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County board works on EIM challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Montgomery County, Election Integrity challenged over 4,000 voter records in two different submissions, the first in February and the second in July. There was a large number of deceased in the first batch, the vast majority coming from nursing home addresses, Kelleher said.<\/p>\n

The second submission produced a report from the Montgomery County election board which concluded that 26% of its 1,115 challenges were found to be associated with nursing homes. As a result, election board staff was assigned to address \u201cnursing home and assisted living facility residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of submitted names of voters identified as \u2018challenged\u2019 by Election Integrity are individuals who are currently classified as inactive voters on the Maryland State Voter registry,\u201d Montgomery County Election Board spokeswoman Marjorie Roher wrote in a Sept. 21 email. \u201cThe term \u2018inactive\u2019 means that the Board of Elections mailed an official document to the voter and it was returned to the Board.\u201d<\/p>\n

If a voter with an \u201cinactive\u201d status does not vote in two federal elections, they are supposed to be changed to \u201ccancelled.\u201d Kelleher said she suspects that many of the \u201cinactive\u201d voters are dead.<\/p>\n

MoCo responds with report<\/strong><\/p>\n

An excerpt from the Montgomery County report reads: \u201cThe absentee staff will handle all nursing home and assisted living facility residents in accordance to State Board of Elections regulations. Board of Elections staff will permit the facility to verify the names of person assigned to that address and confirm if they are still in residence. The process for removal will be followed in accordance to State Board regulations. If the facility advises the Board the person is deceased, we have attempted to cross reference with the Dept. of Health records to confirm. These records are still in the process of verification. Otherwise we will follow regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, what wasn\u2019t made clear by the Montgomery County election board was what, if anything, was done to rectify names that shouldn\u2019t appear on voter rolls for the Nov. 6 election.<\/p>\n

Election Integrity submitted its second group of findings to the Montgomery County election board on July 16, three weeks prior to a 90-day voter registration list maintenance moratorium imposed by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).<\/p>\n

But neither the Montgomery County board or the state board would confirm that any verification mailings were sent out prior to the federal cut-off.<\/p>\n

Status of most names will wait till after the election<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe group used a listing service that is not permitted by State Board of Maryland regulations,\u201d Roher wrote of the July submissions in a Sept. 21 email to MarylandReporter.com. \u201cThe Board will follow the SBE regulation to follow up on a report of the death of a registered voter. This process requires that a notice shall be mailed and the Board staff will complete during the confirmation mailing process after the Nov. 6 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roher did confirm that 31 names identified in the group\u2019s \u201cdeceased\u201d category submission had already been removed prior to receiving EIM\u2019s submission, and that 16 additional individuals had been confirmed as deceased, but Roher didn\u2019t say if the 16 names had been removed.<\/p>\n

Trauernicht inquired about any actions taken by the board related to EIM\u2019s submission. On Sep 13, 2012, Election Director Margaret Jurgensen wrote in an email to Trauernicht:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Montgomery County Board of Elections staff checked each name submitted on lists given in February and July by the Election Integrity Maryland. \u00a0This was reported in the February and September Board meetings. The staff of the Board of Elections will compare the submitted list of names to the returned sample ballots in confirmation mailing process after the General Election in accordance to the regulations of the State Board of Elections. There will be no further actions or review made from either list of names submitted until the Board begins the confirmation mailing process after the general election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelleher and her research partners dedicate much of their days to finding fraudulent voter registration information. Just last week she concluded a report which shows 42 dead people on the state\u2019s active voter rolls – all with the same nursing home address in Montgomery County, but she hasn\u2019t submitted those names yet.<\/p>\n

Of the three examples Kelleher provided, two had died within 6 months of being registered and one shortly after a year.
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