Exactly what should be done with some 80,000 plus names that remain on the Fayette County voter registration rolls (SURE DATABASE) - check all of the addresses and names therein. The county commissioners who in a non-re-election term comprise the Registration Commission and the Election Board should have already caused this to happen a decade ago. What's the excuse with the computerization of the registry of electors into a database accessed on computer?
All of the names of the electors should also be placed on the county's website.
The county site includes how to use the high-tech direct recording electronic Hart-InterCivic eSlates so as to familiarize newcomers to the system with its ease of use.
So why not go high-tech and place the names and addresses of electors in the county's database online for everybody who cares to check?
That can be accomplished just as Allegheny County reportedly has done, without any personal information other than the name and address of the registered voter.
One thing that should result from the Roberts challenge of the Sean Lally nomination petitions and Judge Leskinen's hearing: the Judge should require the Fayette Registration Commission to meet and implement a full-scale purge over the course of the next two months and report back to him how many names are going to receive those "mailings..."
See Net the Truth Online report for March 16, 2007
http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/03/names-of-electors-to-be-checked-for.html
Mainstream local news Herald-Standard clip
Names taken off election petitions
Amy Zalar
Numerous other signatures are being challenged because of inaccurate addresses. Laurie Lint, director of the Fayette County Election Bureau, was directed on Friday to investigate whether or not the 65 or 70 people whose signatures are in question have been given notices to change their addresses. If they have been, and did not do so in a certain time limit, their signatures will be stricken as well
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Names taken off election petitions
By Amy Zalar, Herald-Standard
03/17/2007
Updated 03/17/2007 12:48:34 AM EDT
The attorney for Fayette County Controller Mark Roberts whittled away at names on the nomination petitions of challenger Sean P. Lally Friday and by the end of the day a total of 68 signatures had been deemed invalid and stricken from Lally's petitions.
The 15 names eliminated by Judge Steve Leskinen were in addition to the 53 names that were erased on Thursday, leaving Lally with 368 valid signatures out of the 436 he secured. A total of 250 are required to remain on the ballot.
The hearing was continued until Wednesday, March 21, at 9:30 a.m., when numerous individuals whose names appear on Lally's petitions are expected to testify about who was circulating the petition when they signed it, among other issues.
Several individuals whose names appeared on Lally's petitions testified Friday afternoon, after receiving subpoenas from Roberts' attorney, Jason F. Adams. While Adams said he sent subpoenas to about 300 individuals, there was apparently some confusion as to the time of the hearing, and some people showed up at the Fayette County Courthouse at 9 a.m. when testimony was not slated to begin until 1:30 p.m.
Annette Flora of Masontown was among a handful of witnesses who testified regarding the validity of her own signatures. Flora said a woman that she works for told her that the petition she was signing was to get someone out of the courthouse "who was stealing money." Flora admitted that not only did she sign her name; she also signed the names of her boyfriend, her son and her boyfriend's mother on the petition.
"I was told it was alright. But I'll never sign a petition again," Flora said. She said she was sorry and realized after the fact that what she did was wrong.
Flora said she was first questioned about the signatures after her son received a telephone call asking him if he signed the petition. Flora said she returned a call to Roberts to discuss the petition, adding that her son was mad at her. "My son's mad, my boyfriend's mad and my boyfriend's mother said everybody makes a mistake," Flora said.
Based on testimony, Leskinen redacted all the names in question, calling the incident a "complete subversion of the whole electoral process."...
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Other names that were stricken were done so because the individuals had previously signed Roberts' petitions, people signed Lally's petitions twice, or were not registered or had not affixed a proper signature, instead printing their names.
Roberts, a Democrat concluding his second term in office, is challenging Lally's petitions and is seeking to have Lally's name removed from the May 15 municipal primary ballot. Lally is also seeking the Democratic nomination for the position, and filed nomination petitions containing 436 names.
At the beginning of the hearing, Timothy Andrews attempted to have a challenge Roberts is mounting against 150 names for Lally's alleged failure to circulate his own petition thrown out for there being an insufficient explanation on the court challenge.
Andrews said simply writing "improper affidavit of circulator" does not give Lally enough information to defend the allegation. Andrews said Roberts is contending Lally did not personally circulate his petition, which should have been spelled out, and cited cases to support his position.
Leskinen said he was not sufficiently confident Andrews was correct, and opted to allow the hearing to continue.
When testimony resumes Wednesday morning, Adams said he intends to call witnesses who will testify that Lally did not personally circulate some of the petitions he signed an affidavit for, as required by law.
Adams has estimated that about 150 signatures are being challenged on the basis that Lally did not personally circulate them.
Numerous other signatures are being challenged because of inaccurate addresses. Laurie Lint, director of the Fayette County Election Bureau, was directed on Friday to investigate whether or not the 65 or 70 people whose signatures are in question have been given notices to change their addresses. If they have been, and did not do so in a certain time limit, their signatures will be stricken as well
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http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18091993&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6
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