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Dead Voters Still Showing Up on Election Records, Puzzling Officials”

Jane Drury voted last year in an election in Stonington, Conn. The only problem is, she died eight years ago.

Her daughter Jane Gumpel thought someone must have goofed.

“I was surprised because this is not possible,” she said.

But it did happen. The town clerk’s record clearly shows Drury’s vote, marked by a horizontal line poll workers put next to her name. And it turns out, Drury isn’t the only voter to apparently cast a ballot from the grave.

The issue of dead voters showing up on ballot records continues to be a problem for election administrators across the country.

Journalism professor Marcel Dufresne, at the University of Connecticut, led a class investigation into dead voters and said his group of 11 students discovered 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared somehow to have cast ballots after they died.

We have one person who appeared to have voted 17 times since he died,” Dufresne said.

Dufresne said there is no evidence of any election fraud, but the number of dead voters “shows the system is vulnerable and it shows that people who are clever and have a little cooperation in the town level, you could use this and get people to vote for people who died.”

Sounds a bit fraudulent to me

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But officials elsewhere have confirmed other cases in which dead people appear to have voted.

In Washington State, Republican Dino Rossi ran for governor in 2004, and *lost by only 133 votes. Officials confirmed that the names of 19 dead people somehow cast ballots. Rossi is running this year for governor and reflected on his experience in 2004.

“It was the closest governor’s race in U.S. history. After the fact we found a number of dead people voted. I don’t know how they voted — you have to talk to Shirley MacLaine about that,” Rossi said.

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*Yep, Democratic motto here in Washington state is “demand a recount until we win”

Comments

Simple solution.  Require an ID for each voter.  Any argument against an ID is specious since ID recognition is required for almost every other activity. e.g. try withdrawing money from your bank account without showing an ID.


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on June 5, 2008 at 09:10 am

I agree, but right now they don’t require anything with absentee ballots. My ID hasn’t been checked in at least 15 years.
They check signatures, but I seriously doubt they hire professional authenticators to screen signatures.


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Anna on June 5, 2008 at 09:25 am

An unsubstantiated allegation of denying someone the right to vote is big news in this country.

Somebody voting twice (or when they are ineligible to do so) amounts to exactly the same thing.  After all if they vote opposite of the way I vote it in effect cancels out my vote.

So here’s proof of vote fraud (although we don’t know which way) and the responsible parties and news media yawns.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on June 5, 2008 at 09:33 am

My ID hasn’t been checked in at least 15 years.

Anna,

A true gentleman would remark that you hardly seem old enough to not have had your ID checked for 15 years!

Have a nice afternoon!


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on June 5, 2008 at 10:00 am

Bat, please restrict your flirting to the private messages please.  This isn’t a singles site. 

smile


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on June 5, 2008 at 10:02 am

Didn’t they use the dead voters trick in the movie Black Sheep?

k_lunch on June 5, 2008 at 10:11 am

Whistler,

Just practicing!


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on June 5, 2008 at 10:18 am

Anna,

The dead have been voting early, often, and democRATic for decades.


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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on June 5, 2008 at 01:34 pm

It should be noted that the dead peoples will indicated that votes be cast in their name for the next 20 years.

ellinas on June 7, 2008 at 10:09 am

this is what the GOP used in Fla. against Gore. nice post, but i think you are barking up your own tree.


rasberry

Sparkie Arbuckle on June 7, 2008 at 03:10 pm

sparkless,

The Dead Vote is a well understood and documented aspect of Machine Politics.  Machine politics is in turn a product of one party political entities.  Notable examples include Chicago, San Francisco, certain burroughs of New York City, and Hawaii.  The usual “guess the party” rules apply.


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Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on June 7, 2008 at 03:16 pm
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Dead voters and a few very rich ones are the only ones who have not been harmed by republican policies.

You republicans are the ones who flew brownshirts into Miami-Dade in 2000 to prevent the recount and to be sure that the current moron-in-chief would be appointed president by the supreme court.

Lee on June 7, 2008 at 08:07 pm

lee

long on spittle, totally devoid of fact.  I couldn’t create a cliche of a liberal that complete.


Out Here
Rodney G. Graves

Ceterum censeo Parthia esse delendam
Latin: “Furthermore, Parthia (Persia aka modern day Iran) should be destroyed.”

Rodney Graves on June 7, 2008 at 09:23 pm
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