👀 “change of address” flags. ➡️ where DeJoy https://twitter.com/detmermike/status/1325778971045355521
👇 https://twitter.com/righteousbabe4/status/1310600943063498753
👇 https://twitter.com/righteousbabe4/status/1290277427629797376
Where. Is. DeJoy? https://twitter.com/mikefarb1/status/1325835844549283849
Also. About those “dead” voters always important to understand a dataset.
👇 https://twitter.com/righteousbabe4/status/1310801935138725889
🤷‍♀️ https://twitter.com/righteousbabe4/status/1310801476760080384
The National Change of Address Linkage is used by election officials in at least 36 states as part of their procedures to update voter rolls and identify voters whose addresses may have changed ... including battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
unclear why the issue took place, with reported internal USPS documents describing it only as an unexplained “error,” and those who regularly use the system—including bulk mailers and other groups, along with election officials—described the outage to TIME as “highly unusual.”
🤔 weren’t folks squealing about “glitches”?
The addresses were restored AFTER some states had already started mailing out mail-in ballots or ballot requests, and states had started compiling voter address data “long before” the issue was corrected, TIME notes.
👆Address mismatches ➡️ provisional ballots or kicked ballots. 🤔 something legally cast votes.
Of those, many may have had a recent change of address, with a Pew survey in July finding that 22% of respondents had either moved during the Covid-19 pandemic or knew someone who did.
Johnson told TIME the agency has since changed the NCOA database to ensure that the August issue will not happen again. ➡️ Gopigs and their love of those 1-time favorable things 🤔
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