In February 2010, then-State Prosecutor Robert Rohrbaugh wrote in a letter to the Maryland State Senate that his office was unable to prosecute such cases because of budget and staff limitations
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They know voter fraud is occurring but they say they can't prosecute???

All of the 2008 cases were referred to the Maryland State Prosecutor. None were prosecuted
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willfully ignoring the law

Kinda makes the "Poll Tax" excuse for no Photo I D seem shallow and untrue.

This is totally unacceptable with today's technology .

I researched more then 2000 names in the BOE rolls in montgomery County.. Unbelievable what you find.. Doug Gansler our attorney general won't do anything especially if New Americans involved. And they are!

Why am I not surprised? Outraged, but not surprised!

Show me how someone actually votes twice. When we know how this is done then we can fix the problem. "Fixing" the potential to vote twice SEEMS like a good idea but if it interfears with the legitimate ability to vote of more than we have a problem with now I would rather see a fraud rate of 1/1ooth of 1% over the disenfranchisement of a larger number of people. This is America and our right to vote is precious. We much fight fraud, but we must not make it more difficult for valid voters to vote.

What Election Integrity Maryland is doing is well intentioned, but I'm not convinced they are none partisan. The Election board should be using up to date technology to know every voter is properly identified. We can do this without photo ID. As I have stated here before photo IDs can be forged and when we become dependent on them the means we now use to check identification will become even more lax.

New technology will cost money and most of us did not want to pay the government any more money. So where does it end? If we want a well oiled machine we have to pay for it not trade one inadequate system for another.

The process for verification is ridicules! If someone has moved or died how can they respond if they no longer live at the address on the rolls or they are dead!

The state has failed the legal voter and its citizens. There are so many checks and balances that could be set in place but isn’t. The state is in charge of birth documents, voter registration, driver licenses and ID’s and death certificates as well as many other agencies. To me if these agencies would create a data base it could be crossed referenced by the election board to determine who is a legal state voter and who is not, then voter ID may not be needed.

I would love to know how those fraudulent cases voted. I am sure we already know. Let me guess Mark, you are a liberal? We need ID's to buy alcohol, tobacco, to drive, to see an R rated movie, but not to vote, ridiculous! Only legal citizens should be allowed to vote, and only once. Baltimore City, Montgomery, and PG counties especially, are riddled with fraud and corruption.

FIFA,

I’m a registered Democrat and feel that new laws need to put in place to stop voter fraud. It’s just not a right wing Republican talking point this Democrat is talking about it.

First off there is no voter fraud in Baltimore County. We can't get legal long term or short term voters to the polls much less people who are dead. Many people in our county are just too lazy or don't want to be bothered about today's very partisan political scene and would never go through the trouble to vote twice. I agree with requiring photo ID and I agree the polls should be kept up to date. But never purge the voter polls in an election year. Those that do that or try to pass restrictive voter laws are just trying to stunt the vote and should be called out. Any elective official who doesn't believe in the word compromise should be recalled. We can stop that voter myth by having same day voter registration in Maryland. We have the poll judges sitting, waiting for something to do. Solve the problem instead of creating one.

Let me say this: it would be easy to commit voter fraud in Baltimore County. How can I say that? Because I could have done it during early voting, in the primary. My sister does not vote in the primary, I know this to be a fact. I know her name (and how to spell it) her address and her date of birth.We are only a few years apart in age, so I doubt I would have been challanged. I have to admit I was very tempted. And my daughter passed away last year and is still on the rolls. I could easily have had someone vote for her. So don't say voter fraud doesn't exist in Maryland and Baltimore County, just go back and research the election involving Ellen Sauerbrey! And sorry most of the poll judges are not informed or well trained. So Ken......your points do not hold water! When money is involved people will do lots of things they would not normally do, we both know that. I have been present when there were problems and had to call the BOE or an attorney on call to remedy the problem because the judges were ill trained in the law. And requiring photo ID is not a Democrat issue, nor is it a Republican issue........it is an AMERICAN issue. We are all aware of "motor voter" and what that got us! IMHO

Election Integrity Maryland is not a non-partisan organization. It's an organization inspired by the Houston, Texas based True the Vote group. True the Vote is an offshoot of a local tea party group. No one, Democrat or Republican wants to see voter fraud, but I think Election Integrity is more interested in voter suppression than in preventing voter fraud. The media need to do a better job when it comes to identifying organizations that are truly non-partisan.

I didn't say voter fraud was not possible I said it just is not happening. They did find one vote out of millions who voted in Florida that was real voter fraud. So let's solve the problem encourage your legislator to put forth a bill for election day voter registration (same day voter registration) in Maryland for the next election. By the way for same day voter registration you have to show ID. Let's all work to get everyone to vote instead of creating myths to restrict the voting rights of others. Another myth is you have to be a lawyer or well trained election judge official to register a new voter. Whatever your issue is voting restrictions, purging and new voting laws should never be changed during an election year. That is seen as stunting the vote in order to steal an election.

I had a dual voting ability in 2000 and 2002 because of a mistake by the state not updating their system. (And NO I did not vote twice!).
I lived in one location from 1990-1999 and was registered to vote at Joppa View Elementary. I moved in 1999 about a 1/2 mile away and was registered to vote at Perry Hall High. In 2000, I received (my) voter card forwarded from my old address to vote at Joppa View.
During the 2000 election, I went to Perry Hall High and legally voted. I drove over to Joppa View after that and walked up to check if I was on the list and I was. I told the election judge about the error. They said they would note it.
In 2002, I voted again at Perry Hall High legally. I drove over to Joppa View to check if I was on their list to. To my surprise I was still on that list to legally vote again. I told the judge and she said she would note the error.
Finally in 2004 the correction was made.

I think Ronn is likely to be a case in point, most of these duplicate registration turn out to be simple bureaucratic snafus, not the result of some organized nefarious conspiracy. And like Ronn, it remains to be seen how many of these double enrolled voters actually were dishonest enough to vote twice. I suspect that most of them, like Ronn, simply did their civic duty, voted once, and may or may not have even REALIZED that a snafu had them as dual enrolees.

I love the left when they claim that it is the republicans who want an uneducated electorate. The left's base is made up of the youth (naïve for the most part) minorities (who have less education as a whole) and unions who take their marching orders from labor bosses. Plus the left's arguments like free healthcare, tax the rich, etc are much easier to sell to an ignorant population. You need to actually be informed to understand the constitution, economics and capitalism. No, it is the left that in fact depends on an uninformed electorate to win. If people like Paul A don't understand that I don't know what to say.

I don't mind responding to folks with false names, so I will.

1. I didn't claim what you state. Read my post again.
2. The left's base is not made up of naive youth (most in college) and uneducated minorities.
3. Have you noticed the Republican base (red states) exist in the most uneducated states of all?
4. The Republican party has successfully waged a propaganda campaign that has convinced their base that the country's problems are due to unions, immigrants, welfare, abortions, LGBT community, ACLU, a black non-citizen President, liberals, etc., this has been an effective policy of distraction for Republicans.

Uninformed, hardly. Your talking points are not based in fact.

First I am not using a false name. My first initial is A (for Andy if you must know) and my middle name is Mark. Second a large portion of the democrat base is made up of the groups I cite plus large numbers of rich elites like our president who think they are therefore smarter than everyone else. Third drawing the conclusion that the states that are red are less educated is faulty because you have to look within the population to see who is voting for whom. For example in a state like West Virginia, many of those you may consider dumb are coal workers whose livelihood depends on the coal industry which Obama is destroying. Other states in the south are more culturally conservative and will naturally support candidates who reflect their views on those issues. Finally on your last point, the those issues you mention, they are hardly the issues most conservatives are talking about. I for one care about the economy, the debt and individual freedom and constitutional govt, as do most conservatives.

I stand corrected Andy Mark. Let's say in instead, anonymity is more accurate of your desires. Your choice, I prefer to use my real name.

The issues I mention are the red meat issues most uneducated members of the Republican base focus on. I believe you are incorrect in that assertion. The intellectual conservatives who wish to talk about economic matters in an intelligent matter are always welcome. The problem for them is the base doesn't understand nor care. The base wants their red meat which could be said for both sides. If the President is a "rich elite" as you describe, what is Romney, Trump, Gingrich, Koch Brothers and many more than on the democratic side?

Below are the stats of high school diplomas by state. It speaks factually to my earlier comment.

I believe you do watch politics as I do, I just say follow the money.

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0233.pdf

Rich elites are people on the left who try to tell others how to live. It's an attitude of "I am smarter than those common masses, therefore I need to pass govt rules regulating their healthcare, the cars they drive, the schools their kids attend, what they can do with their private property and so on. If someone is rich but believes in free market capitalism they are not elite at least with regard to government, IMO.

Also people can be highly educated in math, science, literature, etc but be clueless about politics. Just look at the polls that show large numbers of Americans who can't name the vice president or the speaker of the house to name two examples.

Wow! You believe rich elites can only be liberals. Have a nice day Andy Mark ???.

We have someone registered to vote in Kingsville at his business address although he lives in Harford County. He even ran for Republican Central Committee in Baltimore County. I've contacted the election board. but they won't do anything about it.

As far as there not being voter fraud FIFA, how do you explain how members of the Obama campaign were caught registering in multiple states in 2008, especially all of the swing states?

Curious as to how many of the 'double registrations' in Maryland actually represent double voting. Does anyone know any stats? I know that when it was investigated in New York State the percentage of double registrations that became actual double votes between 2000 and 2004 was 0.000009 percent. And what this all really leads to is revisiting of the idea of the issuance of National Identity Cards for all citizens, issued the way SS cards are now issued to everyone. This idea, if I recall correctly, was objected to by as many conservatives as liberals, but this seems to be the way we are heading now. Curious, is this what the advocates of voter ID are getting at? It can't be that all voters must have driver's licenses, of course, which sort of serve as national ID cards now, but would have to a picture ID issued to all citizens. I thought there were bipartisan reservations about this idea.

"A Maryland voter fraud watchdog organization" - Non-partisan?

Perhaps not... it looks to me to be more of a highly partisan externally funded (national campaign) of a similar sort they had issues with in Florida. One has to wonder which people they are specifically targeting in their challenge/identification process. This is America, and the right to vote is sacred - if you have any love of your country, and even if you are a Tea Party supporter, you have to respect people's right to take part in Democracy and oppose these sorts of efforts.

"Earlier this year, Elections Integrity Maryland reviewed 7,000 voter registrations in Montgomery County and alleged that 5,400 of those contained irregularities similar to those found in Baltimore County." - They really think that 5400 out of 7000 voters there should be struck/challenged?

This is nonsense, and the Elections board is right in not striking the roles based on this lobby group's efforts to "help us" - they are gaming the system to their own advantage.

As for who they are... I'll let you read for yourself what NPR says and
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/13/148518795/tea-party-spawns-new-effort-against-voter-fraud

Note the last signatory in this list of Tea Party leaders
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49384289/Tea-Party-Leader-Letter-to-Gov-Scott-Walker

I provided facts about how members of the obama campaign were warned not to vote in swing states that they registered in because they were also registered to vote in their home states. It is also fact that people of the democratic party were prosecuted in Mississippi, New York for voter fraud. Right now as we all post Wisconsin is investigating voter fraud of the dems stemming back to the 2008 elections. Where is FIFA and facts? He has none. All he does is levy insults with no stats to back up his postings. As far as birthers go FIFA, explain why Obama's bio that he provided to the original publisher of his first book states that he was born in Kenya? Reminder for those that place emphasis on facts, not opinions, this was the original publisher that payed an advance of 150,000 dollars and not the final publisher that payed 40,000 after that orignal contract had expired after 3 years and no manuscript.

It is amazing how a check of the voter rolls stirs people up. I scanned the article and and comments for data on actual voter fraud in Maryland and could not find any. There seems to be a lot of "speculative anger" going on here.

What programs do you watch on msnbc Brandon? The Holder justice department is suing every single state that utilizes the motor voter law to purge the dead and those felons that no longer have the right to vote. As far as suppressing votes, does that mean that universites are suppressing enrollment for asking for id? Are the airlines suppressing flyers for asking for id? Are libraries around the country suppressing book lendings because they ask for ids? In Florida alone they found 182,00 registered voters that cannot prove us citizenship. In new york and mississipi dems were indicted and plead guilty to voter fraud. By asking for a valid id it allows election commisions to check databases with the government concerning social security numbers, citizenship, and whether the person is a felon or deceases. How does that suppress voter turnout? Wait, it does suppress voter fraud because it prevents those people from fraudulently sending out absentee ballots and intercepting them and using them to commit voter fraud. I never said that repubs did not commit voter fraud. However, right now it is wisconsin, new york, mississippi and other states where acorn sprouted that voter fraud is apparent.

Human Beings are responsible for themselves first...
If they are unable to tend to their self for whatever reason, the system seems to get heavily involved in their lives...by design I believe.
Politics rely heavily on human beings that are stuck within the limitations of the system that controls their life.
The photo ID would catch on really quick, would be easy to understand, and would meet with little resistance...getting people into the system has never been a problem, even in the far reaches most are already in...
The system will never be without fail, efforts to maintain balance are the best that I believe we are capable of.
If you truely live free than non of these numbers or photo's mean anything to the quality of your life anyway...

What we really need is a follow up system to ensure that the person the rolls say voted, actually voted. With turn out so low, it is easy for corrupt folks to add votes by voting for folks who don't show up. Maybe if we start with a follow up system we could weed out the corrupt election officials. And do not forget that the electronic voting machines cannot be verified as they do not record which person the voter selected (in order to ensure voter privacy). So if the machines are fixed (and there have been many allegations of that) what could is any voter ID system (although personally I would like to see one).

Here's another take on the National efforts by "True the Vote" to influence elections in their favor - let's not beat around the bush. this is a radical Tea Party group that targets who they want to target, and then expects Maryland to simply roll-over and acccept their "help" as a "non-partisan watchdog" - yeah, right...

They should be ashamed of themselves, waving our Flag while they attack their fellow American's right to vote...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167648/true-vote-still-out-screw-vote

They would call up people and find out if they were going to vote or sit this one out or my favorite was were you working shift work down the point and not going to make it ? Bang two vans 15 people each with a name for every polling place .Bingo the shop stewards delivered 150 votes at least in Dundalk. Lunch and a $20.00 bill. Now I KNOW that was done and so do many Steelworkers .Listen after the DOJ came in an overturned the points election ,Do you know how hard it is to fet them to have a reelection? It is almost impossible and wouldn't have happened if the mill was profitable and union was happy with dues they made an EXAMPLE out of business they were losing .

Funniest day in my life was Venitoulis election for govenor saw him in a Dunkin Donuts Wise ave. 6:00am in the morning ,told him he was losing the Dundalk vote and the people around him said this guy is so young don't worry, we have then they named off three names and told him that those guys would deliver the vote .I kind of felt Venetoulis cared about Dundalk but he was told that he shouldn't waste his time there .I still have the extra large coffee mug I bought that morning with the saying don't worry about the donut worry about the hole. Dundalk was the hole in his bid for the govenors mansion.
The only way to stop corruption or even put a dent in it is a picture ID.

Dear Brandon, your post could not have been more wrong if you tried. The supereme court has in fact ruled that all states that are not required to request voting changes because of gross civil rights violations in the past have a right to pass laws requiring photo id to vote. That is a plain and simple fact. Every time the Holder justice system has tried to fight that law it has lost in the courts. The supreme court has ruled sir that photo ids do not violate voter suppression. Also sir, you are ignorant of southern states that send people to the residencies of those poor and get them a photo id with no cost. Almost every state proposing voter photo id laws have programs to accomodate those that do not drive and are poor. Nice try though. Go back to msnbc.

FIFA obviously deserves an award for most incredulous poster of the year. Keep denying the facts FIFA, oh wait that is what all liberals do when they cannot bring their own facts to the table. Go crawl back under your msnbc rock, and when you wake up we will have a new president.

There is a biography of Barack Obama that was given to the first book publisher that paid him 150,00 dollars for an advance. That biography that was provided lists him as being born in Kenya. That is a fact. Maybe FIFA or brandon will post something intelligent, or factual. Brandon keeps touting photo id laws as suppressing votes, yet the scotus ruled otherwise. Also FIFA, it is a fact that obama had sealed his college records including his financial aid forms and his written works. What is he trying to hide? Did he apply for financial aid as a foreign student?

Paul, right again on the issue. You are - dead rights - on those who have passed away but still vote from beyond the yellow brick road.

Mark, when Bryan tells about an article he did you can take it to the bank. Just because you can't remember or have knowledge of it doesn't mean it ain't there.

As to the link, they were taken down over business transactions. Bryan I would scan and upload it to prove your point.

Buzz, I have heard the "dead" voting stuff all the time. I would like you to focus on the elephant in the room, the possibility of altering electronic vote totals without detection. People easily understand the dead person voting, that's one vote. But changing totals surreptiously, the perpetrator decides who wins the election. Involve fewer people, don't leave a trail.

Buzz, you were a cop. Involve too many people and you get caught easily, which is exactly what an organized campaign of dead or duplicate voters would take.

@Tim, the problem I have with all three of the 24/7 talking head networks is the volume and the repetition of non-news. The car chases, the death of actresses, actors, singers, etc. The Prince gets married, whoopee!

Those networks will talk incessantly about anything but important stuff. Some more than others. Young Americans die every day for this country in Afghanistan and it simply makes me ill that it is not important to us. "They volunteered" for that job speech makes me sick to my stomach.

Probably speaks to the attention span of Americans.

In regards to Paul, and his defense of Obama's shady past. Here are classic examples of his shady past, in no particular order:
1) Obama lectures acorn staffers on how to protest banks and intimidate lenders-now it is simply referred to as the "muscle for money" modus operandi
2) As a state legislator in Illinois, Obama wrote federal recommendations for block grants for federal housing for Tony Rezko. Rezko then took the money but allowed the properties to be condemned. Thousands of poor african americans and other citizens had to leave while Rezko and Obama buddies bought the condemned properties and flipped them for huge profit.
3) As a state legislator Obama was the only one that voted yes for a bill that would allow failed abortion viable fetuses to be thrown into linen closets and allowed to die in that manner.
4) Obama lied about working with Ferrakahn in the million man march, even though the chicago tribune had his name printed on it as a manager/organizer being thanked by Ferrakahn himself.
5) Obama was at a dinner with Khalidi where member of the audience read poems advocating the death of Israel. Did Obama condemn this? The los angeles times to this day will not release the tape, even after McCain publicly pleaded for its release in 2008. Hmm, makes sense now in 2012 his policies concerning Israel.
6) His failed attempt to make gun sellers be banned from selling arms when fast and furious blew up in his face

Why bother even trying to have a serious discussion of voting issues (machines or process) or about the Scott Walker Tea Party squad invading and attacking the Maryland roles... all you folks here seem to care about is pecking at each other like a bunch of old hens.

Enjoy yourselves... this is below even my low standards, and I've been online since the 80's.

The Maryland Democratic Machine which owns this State have loaded the Voter Rolls with Illegal Aliens and People living in Greenmount and German Hill Cemeterys for Years.And their is nothing anybody can do about it because the Judicial System in this state is loaded with their Liberal appointed Judges.When people at the DMV are caught giving out ID's to New Americans what do you expect!