Sentences with phrase «purged from the voter»

The case arises from an Ohio voter (Larry Harmon) who was purged from the voter rolls.

If you chose to sit New York's presidential primary out in April, or you discovered your record had been mistakenly purged from the voter rolls, you had until Friday, June 3 to register to cast a ballot in the state's federal primary Tuesday.

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incorrectly blacklisted by overly fuzzy implementations of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, (supposedly a fraud preventative database cleaner for purging or flagging duplicate entries from state voter rolls), which fail to require mandatory Social Security Number and birth - date comparisons given two voters named John Doe,

In the infamous Florida purge of 2000 — for which conservative estimates place the number of wrongfully purged voters close to 12,000 — Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions.

In the 2000 Florida election, at least 1,100 eligible voters were wrongly dropped from voting rolls in an attempt to purge a list of felons

In NAACP v. Harris, a class - action, Blacks argued that over 57,000 Black voters were wrongfully purged from Florida's voting lists and that Black communities were provided with defective voting mechanisms.

A legal fight over the purging of more than 200,000 voters from the city's rolls could be coming to a close, according to court papers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — who endorsed Hillary Clinton in October 2015 — also issued a statement Tuesday condemning the purge of voters from voting lists and added his support for the comptroller's audit.

The letter cited reports of voters purged from voting lists, closed polling stations, and broken machines, among other issues.

«It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,» de Blasio said in his statement.

On Wednesday, he did his own analysis of the voter purge in Brooklyn, crunching the numbers from the state voter file and looking at how Kings County routinely purges thousands of people from the rolls every year.

About 125,000 Democratic voters were purged from the Brooklyn rolls while others found their party affiliation had inexplicably changed.

Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, meanwhile, is seeking to make it a felony to purge voters from the rolls — unless the person is «proven» to be dead or have moved away.

The New York City Board of Elections reportedly admitted violating election laws by purging 200,000 voters from its rolls before last year's presidential primary.

But at the same time, there were complaints of more than 125,000 voters being purged from the rolls in New York City when they showed up at the polls to vote.

Some people accuse Jeb Bush of rigging Florida 2000 by purging voter rolls of innocent voters on the pretext of them being convicted felons from out - of - state, when in fact they were not.

The head of the NYC Board of Elections issued an apology for the mysterious purge of 126,000 voters from the rolls that wreaked havoc on last week's presidential primaries.

The city's Board of Elections suspended the top official at its Brooklyn office without pay as they probe the mysterious purge of more than 120,000 Democratic voters from the borough rolls that wreaked havoc on Tuesday presidential primaries.

After voters complained of being purged from registration rolls in New York City and others knocked the rules that prevented them from registering in party in order to participate in the Tuesday presidential primary, a new push could be made in the post-budget session for changing the state's voter registration laws.

The New York City Board of Elections acknowledged it broke the law when it improperly purged thousands of voters from its rolls ahead of the 2016 presidential primary.

The mass purge was caused by the combination of a data - entry error and the agency's failure to send out postcards to Brooklyn voters who were about to be eliminated from the election rolls, sources told The Post.