This has nothing to do with elections. This indicates only that there are people registered who shouldn't be (and most of them probably believe they already took care of it, and vote in a different district.)

Another TD? Oh, I know why! Cuz when people want to hiss and snarl, they don't want anyone reasonable taking the fun out of it. TU'd you just because I like "reasoning" ...

Good Grief. You got thumbed DOWN for that? REALLY?

Making sense really bothers some people, I guess.

Keep in mind that this is the approximate amount of registrations that aren't correct. It doesn't indicate how many people actually USED those registrations.

And that's silly, because while they were looking, they also could have found out when the last time any of those registrations were USED. They didn't.

All this information tells us, is how poorly the record keeping is. It doesn't give the slightest inkling of how much voter fraud actually exists. And given the fact that at 66, I have never EVER heard of ANYone in my family or friends or neighbors or acquaintances who care enough about an election that they are interested in fraudulently voting, I suspect that the number of people who have the desire to vote twice is very small.

You are reading WAY too much into this. What are you thinking? That there are huge groups of people poring over the voter records in order to get extra names to vote under? And then they are sending people out to different polls with fake id's to stand in line and vote? REALLY?

Yeah, I can imagine there being a few people who care that much. But I would have expected to have heard at least a TINY hint that it was occurring. Nope. None.

Perhaps you missed the fact that having dead people on the voter rolls does NOT indicate that those people actually voted. It indicates that IF someone were to take advantage of the fact that they know someone deceased is still on the rolls, they COULD try to use that person's registration to vote. It doesn't indicate in any way, whether ANY of those "dead" registrations were USED. In fact, it doesn't show ANY kind of fraud. My mother died 14 years ago, and it never occurred to me to wonder if she still shows as an active voter. Is she? I have no idea. I'm not even sure how to find out. But I'm trying to imagine a huge number of people using their granny's voter registrations to vote ... nope, can't imagine it. Getting fake i.d. just to prove I'm the right person? Then standing in line to vote, twice?

I can imagine it being more of a problem for Oregon, where we vote by mail. However, that would also require some mail fraud, and not stopping the mail for the deceased. How many people want to keep getting a pound of mail each week for their dead granny, just so they can vote for her next year?

Good grief. Stop being silly.

I have swatted toddlers on their little padded bottoms, mostly because it often is the fastest way to change their direction, and sometimes therefore the safest. Whatever works (swats only work on some children ... on my youngest granddtr, the way to keep her from touching electrical plugs was to sit a noisy toy in front of it. Just the fear of that toy making it's scarey sound kept her away). Every child is different. But if a swat doesn't work, a spanking isn't going to. And spanking a child of any age for crying ... uh ... what world would that work in?

This guy has serious issues. He needs to get neutered. I see worse things in his future.

Exactly what I was thinking! PROBABLY? Really? PROBABLY not?

Umm ... there IS a difference. A LOT of difference. It's illegal to open a beer in the 7/11 and it's illegal to stand in their parking lot and drink your wine. It isn't the actual sale of the alcohol that troubles me. It's the number of people wandering around in the middle of town after having consumed it. Sorry. Too public.

You all saw what Cornilles stands for and are surprised that Bonamici won? Wow.

WHAT? Our LANGUAGE and CULTURE are disappearing? Have you EVER been anywhere in this country but the west coast?

Let me put it simply. American is and has ALWAYS BEEN a melting pot. I grew up PROUD of that, and you and people following in your path sadden and shame me. My paternal grandmother was born in the US in a Norwegian community and didn't learn English until she started school. My maternal grandparents lived in Kansas not far from the Oklahoma border, and my visits there as a child always seemed like having visited some other planet. My granddtr has been in Biloxi for months, and hasn't yet learned to stand in a "line" of two people for a half hour because getting a customer out the door is not even CLOSE to a priority. I visited NY City for a week, in 1974, and can still keep people in stitches explaining the joy I had while trying to grasp the "culture" of that city! A visit to Tennessee almost 20 years ago, still ranks in my memory as a hoot ... having called someone whose last name was the same as a great-great-great of my hubby's, we were taken on a tour, then shown the bed they presumed we'd be staying in, and gave us a few memorabilia from their own family collections.

CULTURE is not a static thing! The culture of Portland is not what it was ten years ago; not what it was 30 years ago; and will change many times in your lifetime. You MOURN this?!! Change and new ideas and new foods and differing opnions make LIFE be LIFE.

I LOVE AMERICA. I love what it has ALWAYS been ... a blending, a new thing coming from many directions, and I pray that it will forever remain the same. A melting pot. Where new cultures bring wonderful ideas to old cultures, and the staid, tense, board stuck up their backsides people who lived in MY neighborhood when I grew up, are nowhere to be found today. My entire neighborhood is a blend of so many colors and so many different ways of looking at things, that life is FASCINATING. Wake up, Altazi. Or at least stop talking in your dead asleep state.