KEEPING IT HONEST
There are issues with the voter roles in Montgomery County. The Republican Central Committee (MCGOP.com), has reached out to the Montgomery County Board of elections asking them to clean up the County’s voter rolls after a review of recent voter analysis indicated irregularities. The MCOP also forwarded records of voters that may have voted in Montgomery County and North Carolina and a list of voters in Montgomery County that may be inactive, as prepared by the Maryland Voter Integrity Group.
The MCGOP noted that the Board of elections could compare, reconcile and purge voter rolls of individuals who have submitted "change of address" requests to the USPS indicating they have moved to a different location outside of the county or outside of the state. This data is from the "National Change of Address" (NCOA) system and Federal Election law "allows" state BOE to use NCOA data to update voter roles but states are NOT required to use this key data set.
Specific 10 point requests that should be done in real time include:
1. Purge voters that do not reside in Montgomery County.
2. Remove duplicate voters.
3. Investigate voters that have addresses at USPS, UPS, Storage lockers and other questionable residences.
4. Identify Noncitizens in database. Update databases include a data field to distinguish between those authorized to vote in Federal and State elections versus only local elections.
5. Investigate voters who have more than one registration. A failure to respond by providing proof of identity and current address should result in removal.
6. Purge Ghosts Registrations.
7. Compare, reconcile and purge voter rolls using deaths reported at the Register of Wills and SSA death records.
8. Compare, reconcile and purge voter rolls using both criminal conviction and mental incompetence records.
9. Compare, reconcile and purge voter rolls using the county's tax records and primary residence for county/state tax filings.
10. Make provisional ballots a different size or color, so they are handled separately and NOT scanned with all ballots that are NOT provisional.
We implore the Executives in the Democrat Party to join us in keeping our voter rolls beyond reproach and make Montgomery County the National model of voter roll integrity.