Russ Buettner: "Exposed: scandals of double voters" New York Daily News August 21, 2004

Washington Monthly, Oct, 2004

The Daily News identified 46,000 people registered to vote in both New York and Florida--and found many that regularly vote in both states. Worse still, there is no interstate system to catch the double-voters.

The villains, who almost always mail absentee ballots to Florida while pulling the lever in Brooklyn or Queens, sound like second-tier Seinfeld characters flora an episode about vengeful retirees: there's 84-year old Republican Norman Siegal, 91-year old Democrat Irving Hertz, and 59-year old GOP stalwart Joe Moschella.

Bush won Florida in 2000 by just 537 votes, so 46,000 illegal registrations matter. Still despite bipartisan federal legislation designed to solve the voting problem," there are no plans to match the registries across states."

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