Report refutes ballots in dead Dallas County voters' names

[PDittie]

Names of dead Dallas County voters that an Internet blog said may have been used to cast improper ballots, in fact, were not used, according to a newspaper report.

In a report headlined “Dead voters cast ballots in Dallas County," the Texas Watchdog blog had reported on its Web site just before Election Day that 48 names of dead voters on the county’s rolls appeared to have been used to vote.

Texas Watchdog compiled the list of 48 names by comparing federal death records with Dallas County’s election rolls, said the blog’s deputy editor, Jennifer Peeples.

“When you show up at a voting place, you don’t necessarily have to show photo ID. Identification can be as little as a utility bill,” she said.

A study of those 48 names by The Dallas Morning News, however, found that 47 of the names were not associated with questionable votes.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6164286.html

Texas Watchdog is nothing but a Republican disinformation website.

It's just another front in the War on Mexicans that the Texas GOP is determined to wage ceaselessly, driven by the xenophobic hysteria whipped up in conservatives' paranoid minds of mass hordes of brown people casting ballots. The continuing attempts to suppress democracy (small d) with Voter ID legislation is the only real fraud.

[sonias]

1. I suspected as much right after their story was picked up

The Dallas Morning News debunked their story pretty quickly. We had initial high hopes for the site when they put up the TEC financial reports of elected officials, but then they quickly raced to the bottom of credibility with their shoddy reporting work on that story.

Yeah, it's just a front for a conservative republican think tank trying to spin voter ID on Texans. A bunch of Texas republican hog wash.

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Sonia