Like Steve Bannon, Tiffany Trump is Registered to Vote in Two States

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by David Bixenspan | 2:55 pm, January 25th, 2017

On Wednesday morning, when President Donald Trump tweeted that he will be pursuing “a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD,” one of the scenarios central to his thesis was people who are registered to vote in two states. It was actually the first scenario he mentioned, before undocumented immigrants voting and the registrations of dead people being used. That’s already a flawed premise to work from, but it quickly came out that, until very recently, his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was one of those evildoers registered in two states. A few hours later, Heat Street one-upped that report by revealing that President Trump’s daughter, Tiffany Trump, is also resistered in two states.

Tiffany is the president’s daughter from his second marriage, to Marla Maples. She briefly spoke at the Republican National Convention last Summer, just a few months after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. While a student, she registered to vote in the Keystone State without asking to be removed from the rolls in New York. In November, the second-youngest child of the president cast her vote in New York and not Pennsylvania.

According to election officials in both states who spoke to Heat Street, contrary to what the president’s tweets suggested, there’s nothing illegal about any of this. There would only be an issue if she (or anyone else) actually voted in both states. As for whether or not this changes this president’s views, Mediaite has reached out to the White House and will update this article if we hear back from them.

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[cilla4progress]

1. Doesn't this just support

Trump's premise?

[DURHAM D]

3. No. It is not illegal.

otoh - Locking up Steve and Tiff seems like a good idea.

[C_U_L8R]

4. It demonstrates Trump is chasing bullshit conspiracy theories

He's just not very smart.

[marybourg]

5. No. As the article stated, there's

nothing illegal about registering to vote in one state when you're already registered in another, as long as you don't vote in two states. We're a very mobile society. People move all the time.

No one tells you to go back to your old state and de-register there. If they want us to do that, they can make it easy to do so with a pre-addressed postcard and most people would comply.

[DURHAM D]

2. Doesn't every state have a different way of purging voter rolls?

I know that years ago the state of Oklahoma cleaned up their voter rolls before a Presidential election. Anyone who had not voted in the prior 8 years was automatically removed.

No big deal.

How do other states do it?

[truebluegreen]

7. In my old state of Idaho, not voting in the national elections

got you purged. Don't know what CO does.

[Stonepounder]

6. I have never heard of being required to cancel your voter registration

when you move from one state to another. (Or of someone having to cancel your registration when you die.) In the last 20 years we have been registered in: Ca, Ky, Mo, and Ky (again). We never even thought about cancelling our registration in any of those states, but then again we never tried to vote in two states in the same election. But I guess we are part of Mr. Orange's millions and millions of illegal voters.

[truebluegreen]

8. This is getting precious.

[Thinkingabout]

9. This is not the first voter fraud I have heard about with people registering

In two states. It was proven in Texas, a guy was registered in Texas and Pennsylvania, his excuse was he owned a home in both states. He also was running for an office in Texas.

[Retrograde]

10. It's dubious, strictly MHO

Did she ever vote in Pennsylvania while she lived there? If so, then I think that if she did vote in New York without re-registering that was not OK.

However, I had a similar situation once. I registered to vote in New York as soon as I could, but I was going to college in another state at that time. When it was decided that students could vote where they went to school I registered in that state, but never got to vote in an election there. When I moved back to New York I went to re-register and reported that I had been registered in a different state the county registrar claimed it didn't count since I never voted there. Or maybe they didn't recognize the existence of anything outside of New York. Anyway, that was over 40 years ago and I long since moved to a state with very sensible voting rules.

[Grammy23]

11. I first registered to vote in Mississippi around 1976 and voted for Jimmy Carter.

A year or so later I moved to Alabama and at some point re-registered to vote there. In time to vote for Carter again, as I recall. Unless the registrar in Alabama notified Mississippi my name could still be on the rolls. In the late 80s I moved to Florida where I have lived ever since. I registered to vote here and have had to re-register a few times after I moved to another address in the same town. No one ever told me to take my name off of rolls in other states if I was on any other rolls. I only voted once in each election at the place where I am currently registered, so there should be no issue. I have no intention of ever trying to vote more than once even though I still live close enough to return to both of the other states where I once lived. I haven't checked so I guess my name could have been purged from all the other places by now.

Just a question. Has anyone here EVER been told they need to notify another state or town (in the same state) where they were previously registered so their name can be removed?

How are voter registration rolls updated? What happens, for instance, when you die? I know some agencies are notified, but which ones? Anyone know the details? And just guessing, but I am pretty sure it varies from state to state.

[Motley13]

12. "lock them up"

This is so stupid, we can't get people out to vote. An undoc is going to risk being deported TO VOTE, get real.

blotus is just trying to divert attention from ALL his crooked shit.

[sarah FAILIN]

13. There was a guy registered twice in our precinct

I think I posted about it here and was scoffed at, but it was real. He was a rep... he had moved down the road from his other house.
When we moved we were only 4 miles from our other house and had intended to keep voting there since we had been active in the community raising money to build our community center..fish fry and pancake breakfasts.. It was a very nice place we built. As soon as we moved, we got a letter saying where our polling place was now located. The community center at the new place always smells funky and has nasty looking paneling but I've decided it is just a place to vote.

[judesedit]

14. Then her, Munchin, Coulter, who has voted twice, should be purged from the voter rolls asap

[StevieM]

15. Actually, Tiffany Trump was born out of wedlock. Donald and Marla were not yet married.

Could you imagine if Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren had 5 children from 3 different fathers, one of whom was born out of wedlock? Can you imagine how the Republicans would have treated them?

[Maeve]

16. Daughter got a letter from the Ohio SOS this year

They had been informed that she had apparently voted in another state and were asking if she should be removed from the Ohio rolls. Yes, she had moved, registered and voted in another state, but not voted in Ohio so totally legal, just trying to get the rolls cleaned up.

That said, tRump is an ass.