New York voters take note! Blogger Bo Lipari cites that over 1.5 million New York State voters have been purged. His blog’s subhead reads “Commentary on Election Integrity Issues in New York State and the Nation”. He accessed raw data through the Freedom of Information Act and studied it minutely. Perhaps others will follow suit in other swing states. I’d strongly recommend that NY State voters access this blog entry. They can learn now whether they have been wrongly purged from voter lists, and what they can do about it. And if you have friends in New York, would you pass this along?

I quote Lipari: “The data reveals that New York State has moved 1,661,244, or almost 14% of the voter records, from “Active” status to “Purged” or “Inactive”, meaning they will not be in the poll books on Election Day. Whether or not these changes are valid is anybody’s guess, and there’s no way to know for sure how many of these have been incorrectly removed from “Active” status. But I’ll wager that a significant number of these records are actually legally registered voters who should be allowed to vote on Election Day, but won’t be. I’ve provided two spreadsheets which break out the analysis by individual New York State counties, totals for New York City(which includes the counties of New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island), and the state as a whole.” These can be downloaded from his blog.

News of such widespread inefficiency and fraud makes me feel this is the most important problem to rectify before we rely on popular votes versus electoral votes. It’s hard enough to monitor swing states with our current system of inequities and mistakes. Think of how much harder it would be at present to examine every voting site! If I’m showing bad logic or bad ethics, by all means speak up. And I hope you’ll leave a comment if you know of other efforts to keep voting accurate and fair.