Apparently no one at the Times has ever heard of provisional ballots; and that small bit of ignorance provides an opening for a bit of utterly biased editorial rubbish.

If a registered voter goes to the polls and finds that their name has been inadvertently removed from the voter registration lists they may ask for a provisional ballot, which will be verified and counted just like as any other vote cast. But ignorance of that fact turns an otherwise routine practice of removing invalid voter registrations into a sinister plot to disenfranchise thousands!

I have moved about a dozen times since I became a registered voter. And I have always made sure to update my registration for my new location, but I have never once gone back and asked that an old registration be removed. Now multiply that mind set by hundreds of millions of voters that have ever moved! The extra taxpayer burden to maintain erroneous registrations and to send out erroneous notices easily warrants that voter registration rolls should be periodically purged of invalid registrations. Must be a slow news day to take a public good and turn it into evil.

Caging is a direct mail term of art for maintaining mailing lists by sending out a first class mailing and updating the list of recipients as undeliverable pieces are returned. This only happens with first class mail, which was overlooked by Ms. Dumbner and proffered as evidence that of evil intent.

Perhaps if the Times and Ms. Dumbner were a bit more cagey or discerning in their thinking even they might be able to see the taxpayer benefit of periodic maintenance of voter registration rolls.

 

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