Election Integrity, Voter Integrity...U.S. first nation with Global access?

Should the Global Community have access to vote in U.S. Federal, State, and Local elections? Should we continue to let anyone vote?

In my mind, everyone who is legal should have some kind of picture ID, public ID and benefits have been around for generations. Who would you leave out? Not many, imho.

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ATLANTA — The Justice Department has rejected Georgia's system of using Social Security numbers and driver's license data to check whether prospective voters are citizens, a process that was a subject of a federal lawsuit in the weeks leading up to November's election.

Does everyone have a Social Security Number in the U.S.? Maybe the SS# could tell us if a 6 month old is old enough to vote? To work a construction job? Does the SS# belong to someone who is deceased?

Same with drivers license. Is it real? A fake DL?

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"This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote," Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said. King's letter was sent to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker on Friday.

In this day and age, voter and election fraud seems like a more serious problem than internet security. If we have an Internet CZAR, why not a concern for cleaning up the voter and election rolls and prevent FUTURE fraud? Voter and election fraud should have been dealt with years ago. Why would any group be more likely to be impacted? That doggie don't hunt.

If you can register for retirement at ssa.gov, and view your Medicare stuff at Medicare.gov, what's the problem with verifying the validity of a SS# or DL#?

Somethings wrong with this logic.

Let's look at some numbers -

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"Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy," said Handel, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010.

Justice Department officials said the citizenship match through driver's license and Social Security data has flagged 7,007 individuals as non-citizens but that many have been shown to be in error.

"Thousands of citizens who are in fact eligible to vote under Georgia law have been flagged," the Justice Department letter said.

The Justice Department decision marks the first time the new Democratic Obama administration has weighed in on Georgia's election laws. It is also the first time the Justice Department has rejected a change in election procedures by Georgia since the 1990s, according to a spokesman for the Georgia attorney general.

"We are pleased with this decision," said Elise Shore, Southeastern Regional Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "It vindicates our filing of the lawsuit."

But Handel said that more than 2,100 people who attempted to register in Georgia still have not resolved questions regarding their citizenship. Her office's inspector general is investigating more than 30 cases of non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a Henry County non-citizen who said she registered to vote and cast ballots in 2004 and 2006.

Gee...2,100 have not resolved questions...looks like the resolution was made by about 5,000...

What's wrong with the 2,100?

It seems like internet and SS#, DL# should make cleaning up the rolls much easier and faster.

Here's the important piece -

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Handel said the checks were designed to follow federal guidelines to ensure the integrity of the vote and that those eligible are casting ballots.

If you're not eligile, should you be voting? Is that the American way?

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/01/us-voting-checks-060109/

Should we let every foreigner cast a ballot? Every illegal alien? Fraud voters?

More OLD stale arguments that don't work...

jmho