N.C. to change voter ID process after problems
Friday, October 10th, 2008
By Staff
After election, state will stop routine checking of error-plagued list of Social Security numbers.
RALEIGH After this election, North Carolina will stop using Social Security numbers to verify the identities of many new voters after questions arose this week about the legality of its registration practices.
On Thursday, The New York Times named North Carolina as one of several states that are checking the Social Security numbers of hundreds of thousands of new voters, despite federal laws requiring that Social Security numbers only be checked as a last resort. The Social Security database is plagued with errors, which could force some qualified voters to provide additional identification – adding an unnecessary barrier for many voters.
The need for more ID could cause confusion on Nov. 4, an election day that is expected to bring unprecedented numbers of voters to the polls. State officials say that, by election day, they expect to have registered more than 800,000 new North Carolina voters this year.
About 218,000 were also taken off the rolls this year – either because they died, moved away or were convicted of felonies – so the net gain will be about 600,000 voters. (more…)
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