Lynn Bailey, the executive director of the Richmond County Board of Elections, said that her office has several safeguards and checks that help eliminate ineligible voters from the rolls… They don’t, however, really have a way to check to see whether someone is registered at an address that isn’t actually a residence, such as a commercial property, she said. “When it comes to voter registration, we really try to give the voter the benefit of the doubt,” she said. Driggers isn’t the only business owner in Richmond County who isn’t registered at his home address, but at least he does live in the county. There are others who vote in Richmond County but live in other parts of the state.
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Even with poll workers checking IDs against voter registration lists and poll watchers watching the polls workers, some ineligible voters still slip through the system, casting votes in the wrong polling place – and even in the wrong county or state. Greg Driggers, for example, lives in Augusta Commission District 8, but he votes in District 4. He’s unapologetic about it…