The voter rolls of Baltimore County contain the registrations of deceased voters as well as voters registered to duplicate and invalid addresses, according to a Maryland voter fraud watchdog organization.
Election Integrity Maryland Friday submitted a challenge to 828 voter registrations because of alleged irregularities.
"We're bringing these to [the county Board of Elections] in the hopes it will make it easier for them to remove these registrations," said Cathy Kelleher, president of the non-profit, non-partisan organization.
"We're trying to help the system," she said.
Kelleher said that the irregularities, in some cases, could allow a voter to cast ballots in two different locations.
Election Integrity Maryland initially reviewed 1,700 voter registrations in the county. There are 492,288 registered voters in Baltimore County as of the last report issued in April by the State Board of Elections.
Kelleher said the irregularities could open the door to election fraud but said her group could not prove if such fraud had already occurred.
"We don't have access to the kind of records that could prove that happened," said Kelleher.
Katie Brown, director of elections in Baltimore County, said she the packet from Election Integrity Maryland was delivered Friday afternoon to her office but she had not had a chance to review it.
"We're going to verify everything they gave us," Brown said Friday night. "I'm not just going to put this away some where."
Brown said the watchdog group "uses information from sites were not legally allowed to use."
The elections director said confirmation cards will be sent to voters if there is a concern related to an irregularity. Voters who respond will have their information updated.
Voters who do not respond, however, will not be struck from the voter rolls.
"I wouldn't want to take away someone's right to vote if (the allegation) is not so," Brown said.
An audit of the 2008 election performed by the State Board of Elections discovered that as many as 200 people in Maryland intentionally voted twice—a more than 30 percent increase over the 2006 election.
More than a third of those came from Baltimore City and Baltimore County, according to the March 2009 report.
Elections officials pointed out at the time that the total number of duplicate voters represented just 1/100th of 1 percent of the 2.6 million votes cast in the 2008 presidential election.
All of the 2008 cases were referred to the Maryland State Prosecutor. None were prosecuted.
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.
Election Integrity Maryland has about 75 trained volunteers that use a computer program that identifies potentially problematic registrations. Typically, the program identifies addresses that have multiple registered voters that do not share last names and appear to have no relationship to one another.
Researchers for the group then review those individual registrations in an attempt to identify irregularities, according to Kelleher.
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 haven't really given us a substantial response," Kelleher said of the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
There are 582,607 registered voters in Montgomery County and a total of more than 3.5 million in Maryland.
Kelleher said her group plans to review each registration.
"This is an ongoing process," Kelleher said. "We'll be doing this for years to come."
Using a photo that is simply on a card and is not verifiable is no more proof of who you are than a fake ID that an under-aged college student uses to get beer. I have mentioned this here at least three times and no is disputing this. All I keep hearing is "a photo ID is the solution." Anyone with the ability to produce an authentic looking driver's license could then get more erroneous votes though the system because we all assume any photo ID is authentic. This will increase the fraud not decrease it.
The issue I have with you and voter fraud is you only ever bring up cases of alleged Democratic fraud, not once, not a single time do you mention alleged Republican voter fraud. That makes you a partisan and your opinions lose credibility with me and others. I am like you, I can be snarky or civil, I prefer the latter. Regarding Obama's college records he has the right to keep people from peering into history. Is there something embarrassing in there, maybe. Is there something embarrassing in Romney's tax returns, maybe. If you want to convince me of an opinion, I find it necessary that all facts be disclosed, not just the ones that might support your opinion. If you only give one side, I can watch MSNBC for the left wing and FOX for the right wing.
There's value in most news sites, hell my favorite aggregate site is the Drudge Report. They put some lolConservative headlines, but the majority of the artciles themselves aren't horribly biased.
I also remember in 2010 hearing about the mailboxes at vacant houses where gobs of absentee ballots were mailed.......voter fraud.......you betcha.
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.
If there was nothing of significance to hide~ nothing would be hidden..
There will be a "mushroom cloud", sound familiar too? Cost a bunch of people their lives and limbs and our treasury a ton of money now and into the future. "he avoids putting legitimate concerns about his shady past", concerns raised by his opponents perhaps and you already judge as "shady". My mother-in-law taught me an important lesson in life, there comes a time when you just have to let go. Let it go, Buck. He is the President of the United States and may be for four more years, deal with it.
I actually had hope for change with Obama when he was first elected, now I hope for change in this election. Problem is...I'm Independent and detest the way that our Country was Bush whacked, the Repubs have done a terrible job by providing Romney as the other choice so I'm torn between a coward that hides the truth and a corporate greed driven bastard that seems to have the same ruler pulling his strings... You lost my respect when I learned of the way that you really made your living Paul, so get over it like your mother in law has tried to teach you..
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.
I lost your respect because of the way I "really made my living". I really don't give a hoot about your respect. I am a land developer, former home builder, and a 30+ year volunteer in this community and have never hidden those facts. Grow-up, Buck. I earned every nickel I have the hard way, by working for it. Son of an Army sergeant, paid my own way through college, invested all of my money and took many risks that I could end up being bankrupt? Turns out I was lucky, it worked out. You make me ill sometimes with your holier than thou attitude and your plastic shack comments. Enough said about this.
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
Paul, You should feel ill because of the way that homebuyers were taken full advantage of with the very real plastic shack development processes that you participated in. Greed driven at every level... shameful..
Enjoy yourselves... this is below even my low standards, and I've been online since the 80's.