Always Complaining About Clearing Voter Rolls

The New York Times has never met a purge of voter rolls that eliminate such problems as dead voters, illegal voters, or voters who have moved out of the jurisdiction that it liked.

The voter purge in Westchester County is no exception. They complain that it is too close to the elections.

Then last Friday, Republican lawyers filed challenges to nearly 6,000 voter registrations in the Senate district, charging discrepancies between county voter lists and change-of-address records compiled by the Postal Service.

There is a process for investigating an accusation of voter fraud. It involves sending a letter to an address in dispute, and possibly following up with a police inquiry. The Westchester County Board of Elections is doing that. But it has never had an outside party dump so many contested names so close to such a fiercely contested election.

The Republicans say they have only the purest motives. “It’s in everyone’s interest to put the election beyond the pale of fraud,” said John Ciampoli, a lawyer for the county Republican Party.

Forgive us if we are unmoved by this freelance fit of pre-election rectitude. If the Republicans were sincere about tidying the voter rolls, they could have raised the alarm long ago. Instead they dropped a bomb at the last minute — a conjectural list of possibly problematic names that the Board of Elections has no hope of clearing up before Nov. 7. Efforts to purge voter rolls are notoriously prone to error and misuse, because of the innocent or inconsequential discrepancies that abound in voter records.

Whatever happens on Tuesday, this list must not be used to disenfranchise voters. People should go to the polls knowing they will not be intimidated or threatened for trying to vote.

Forgive me if I scoff at the Times and their stance on voting rights. They've repeatedly denied reality - that Democrats have benefitted from illegal voting throughout its home coverage. In New Jersey, voter rolls showed that people voted in multiple jurisdictions and that the dead voted in significant numbers. The Times opposed photo identification to reduce the likelyhood of voter fraud, claiming disenfranchisement of voters.

Just this week, New York papers found similar situations in New York voter rolls. The Times finds no problem with the dead voting in New York because it means that the dead hold a four to one majority among those votes.

And this isn't about keeping people from voting. It's about keeping illegal votes from cancelling out the votes of those who have the right to vote. It's about the disenfranchisement of properly registered voters because illegal votes pour in due to fraud, double votes, and the dead rising to vote yet again and with peculiar regularity that cancel out those properly conducted votes.

Once again, the New York Times editorial board comes out against voters best interests. All in the name of its leftist brand of politics.

Shameful.