Voter Fraud or Honest Mistake?

[Axtremus]

Voter fraud or honest mistake? You be the judge:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-did-mark-meadows-register-to-vote-at-an-address-where-he-did-not-reside

Cohen [former staff attorney for the North Carolina General Assembly] pointed out to me another problem with the registration, also connected to the address: you can’t claim to live somewhere that you haven’t moved to yet, and Meadows listed his move-in date as the day after he signed and dated the form. In theory, this could invalidate the registration, Cohen said, but it happens fairly often, he added—many voters mix up their dates on registration forms or predate a planned relocation—and local officials usually look past it.

He also had his voter-registration card sent to a P.O. Box and then subsequently voted by mail.

If you are the one running a county's voter registration operation, how would you handle this? Invalidate the registration outright? Make reasonable good faith efforts to contact the would-be voter to correct a suspected error on his registration? Just look pass it assuming it's an honest mistake and accept the registration anyway?

[Jolly]

You do what most places do, you give the person the opportunity to "heal" the problem.

[jon-nyc]

Absolutely. The voting process isn’t supposed to be a ‘gotcha’ that weeds out every little mistake. Reasonable chances to remedy should be available at every step.

[Jolly]

The question is how many chances do you give the voter and at what stages?