Colo. Voter Records Disappear During Move

[Eugene]

Colo. Voter Records Disappear During Move


Sunday June 18, 2006 6:01 AM

DENVER (AP) - A file cabinet containing the personal information of thousands
of voters disappeared since the Denver Election Commission moved to a new building,
officials said, dashing hopes the records were misplaced.

"We still don't have any reason to believe that it was, quote unquote, stolen,"
commission spokesman Alton Dillard said Friday. But the commission will let voters
who registered between 1989 and 1995 know that they could be susceptible to identity
theft, he said.

Earlier this month, the commission acknowledged that about 150,000 voter records had
been missing at least since February, when it moved to a new office. Last week,
the commission found about 87,000 of the records.

The rest are still missing.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5894251,00.html

[zonmoy]

1. anybody else want to bet that the records found were

only for republican voters.

[dubeskin]

2. I'll take you up on that bet

and even raise you another $20.

[AnOhioan]

3. Colo. Voter Records Disappear During Move

A file cabinet containing the personal information of thousands of voters disappeared since the Denver Election Commission moved to a new building, officials said, dashing hopes the records were misplaced.

"We still don't have any reason to believe that it was, quote unquote, stolen," commission spokesman Alton Dillard said Friday. But the commission will let voters who registered between 1989 and 1995 know that they could be susceptible to identity theft, he said.

Earlier this month, the commission acknowledged that about 150,000 voter records had been missing at least since February, when it moved to a new office. Last week, the commission found about 87,000 of the records.

More at http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VOTER_RECORDS_MISSING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

We can add this to all the other "coincidences"

[Minnesota Libra]

4. It's amazing how these "coincidences" keep piling up and what..........

....do you want to bet the majority of the missing records are for anyone other than lock-step neocons?????

[tanyev]

5. No "reason to believe that it was, quote unquote, stolen"

What an odd thing to say. Is "quote unquote stolen" different from "really actually stolen"?

[carincross]

6. House Bill would remove right for fraud alert

As a Denver voter I called Equifax and activated a fraud alert on my credit account when I heard about the "theft" of my election information - including signature. In this morning's Washington Post Brian Krebs reports that:

"the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a consumer watchdog group in Washington, said a bill recently passed by the House Financial Services Committee and supported by the major financial institutions would exempt companies from alerting consumers about data thefts or losses if the company does not know whether that loss places the consumer at a direct risk of identity theft. The bill also would reserve credit freezes for ID theft victims only."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/17/AR2006061700106.html

I have heard that the credit companies do not like the fact that individuals can activate fraud alerts on their own accounts. This would take away one of the few tools that consumers now have to provide some type of protection. This is an outrage!

[0rganism]

7. Waaayelllll suurpise suurprise suurprise

For some reason, I feel like I could make a pretty accurate guess as to which political parties and demographics are most affected by this, quote unquote, misplacement.

Suffice it to say that every Democrat and voter from a minority-heavy precinct in Denver needs to re-register immediately. Won't hurt a thing if I'm wrong, makes all the difference in the world if I'm right.

[UrbScotty]

8. I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you!

:sarcasm: