She also pointed out how strange it is that, for this local primary election, 105 percent of Detroit’s adult population suddenly registered to vote. Is there any other city in the United States that has obtained even 100 percent adult voter registration? It does seem odd that the media chooses to ignore the fact that the number of registered voters somehow exceeds 100 percent of the adult population

http://www.addictinginfo...a-big-deal-for-michigan/

Karen -

Caveat here that I haven't dug into the Detroit election you cite in any detail (I think it occurred while I was up in the mountains, and I haven't otherwise found an on-ramp to it.) So, without speaking to what did or didn't happen in the election you cite, there are plenty of instances where the number of registered voters exceeds the adult population. It is almost always in jurisdictions where voting rolls haven't been cleared of deadwood (actual dead people and/or people who have moved out of the jurisdiction) in a long time.

In the case of Detroit, you'll note the local Fox outlet reports (as linked from the story you link to):

Now, 96,000 voters in an off-year Mayoral election out of 514,000 potential voters doesn't sound particularly outrageous in and of itself. That there are about 25,000 more voters on the rolls than eligible voters in the city also doesn't sound particularly outrageous if you note that the article also explains the county clerk waits for voters to not vote in two federal elections before beginning the removal process from the rolls. Don't know if that's two Presidential elections, or one Presidential and another two years later.

But, in either case, while their system of culling the rolls should likely be improved, that would mean that some 25,000 voters either died or left the city over the 12 years or over 6 years, but have yet to be removed from the rolls. Given what Detroit has gone through over that same period, it doesn't seem to me to be a particular disturbing number as far as the number of people who would have left Detroit (or died) during that period.

Again, none of that speaks to the other concerns raised in the article you link to, though most of the more troubling aspects, as I could understand them on quick read, have to do with insiders gaming the system, harassing voters and/or stealing blank ballots to use for absentee voting (that latter concern, actually all of them, are among problems I have railed about for years, as I'm sure you know.)

Brad,

Just letting you know that I did follow your link and sent the gubner a note expressing my stark disapproval of SB360. I was gonna post it here but it got a bit on the wordy side. I hope someone reads it.

Thank you for continuing to push back against the computer voting.

Dexter

And thank you, Dexter, for speaking up!