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PoindexterOglethorpe

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12. Most states don't seem to have any good mechanism

Sat Oct 22, 2016, 04:34 PM

Oct 2016

for removing registered voters who've died or even moved.

Some states, if you haven't voted in two or three cycles, will drop you, but not all do so. I suspect that every time I've moved and registered in a different state, my old registration didn't go away for at least four years.

I really doubt very many people are voting on behalf of the dead. Not to mention, every single time I read of voter fraud -- someone registering his dog, or registering both in the state he lives in the the state where he owns a business, invariably it's Republicans who do this. No wonder they are so worried about voter fraud, because they engage in it every chance they get.

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1.8 million dead people still on the voters rolls?? [View all] kentuck Oct 2016 OP

and certainly not the POTUS election treestar Oct 2016 #1

That is very true. kentuck Oct 2016 #3

from under some rock where they don't treestar Oct 2016 #4

More than half of registered voters do not vote in each election NightWatcher Oct 2016 #2

I wonder that they don't clear the voter rolls treestar Oct 2016 #5

I work at the polls in PA and the county election board livetohike Oct 2016 #8

Thanks, that is interesting treestar Oct 2016 #9

That's true, but now the Dept. of Health is supposed to notify the BOE as well. MH1 Oct 2016 #11

In our state they are removed if they die in-state. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #51

that's true treestar Oct 2016 #52

It is a difficult process to handle deaths in other states. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #54

I would think they would have the technology to clean up the rolls? kentuck Oct 2016 #6

Here in PA they are still in the book and marked "Inactive". If that voter livetohike Oct 2016 #10

I could understand the need for an ID in a situation such as that. kentuck Oct 2016 #13

We just check to make sure they are still living in the precinct. livetohike Oct 2016 #16

We get a census request from the town we reside in evry couple of years. If you chelsea0011 Oct 2016 #29

That step alone does not remove your voters from the roll in Massachusetts. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #57

That is correct. Another mailing is sent out. chelsea0011 Oct 2016 #68

I would disagree with you on removing them if inactive for 4 years. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #53

K&R I agree. saidsimplesimon Oct 2016 #7

I don't know. I got it off DU's list... kentuck Oct 2016 #14

Most states don't seem to have any good mechanism PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #12

I think that is an excellent point! kentuck Oct 2016 #15

Where I vote there are the same election judges time after time, milestogo Oct 2016 #23

IIRC duncang Oct 2016 #34

There was a Republican a couple of years ago that did it in Wisconsin and Indiana. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #59

Thank you duncang Oct 2016 #65

Some of it is because those involved are not trained properly. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #58

For some reason, I can't recall seeing that PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #62

Check your state's form. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #66

You are right. I just looked at the form for the state PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #69

It is easily overlooked I think. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #72

It has always been this way. Dead people tend not to call the election board BlueStreak Oct 2016 #17

Why would you think this never happens? former9thward Oct 2016 #18

No system is perfect, I would agree. kentuck Oct 2016 #19

Exactly HOW is this so "easy" to commit fraud by mail and/or absentee voting? I'm interested in the WinkyDink Oct 2016 #48

No one tells the board of elections when someone dies? LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #61

trump pulls this shit out of his ass and spouts it like it's gospel. spanone Oct 2016 #20

Another reason to implement Vote by Mail Thunderbeast Oct 2016 #21

This signing is done in person in PA polling places. No need to mail anything. WinkyDink Oct 2016 #47

In 2012, my husband's uncle early voted Marthe48 Oct 2016 #22

I've never heard of a valid vote being invalidated due to death. milestogo Oct 2016 #24

That;s a good example Marthe48 Oct 2016 #25

If that was election day it would be valid in every state. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #64

Similar with my father Awsi Dooger Oct 2016 #27

It depends on the state a person lives in. LiberalFighter Oct 2016 #63

This comes as no surprise to me. lindysalsagal Oct 2016 #26

Minnesota bumps voters rolls up against the Social Security death index dflprincess Oct 2016 #40

Hillary uses charter buses to take them from the cemeteries to the polls dalton99 Oct 2016 #35

And unlike live people, dead can vote six times each! LisaL Oct 2016 #43

That is funny. pwb Oct 2016 #56

dead voters enid602 Oct 2016 #41

This is an old worry going back to the 1960 Election. Odin2005 Oct 2016 #42

several of the OVER THIRTY cases of documented voter fraud have involved dead registered voters Bucky Oct 2016 #45

Are you counting Ann Coulter's case in that? whistler162 Oct 2016 #71

I live in No-ID PA. Were I to try to vote as, say, dead Jane Doe, I'd better have Jane Doe's SIG- WinkyDink Oct 2016 #46

THANK YOU. MH1 Oct 2016 #67

The November 6th episode of the whistler162 Oct 2016 #70

In 2008 my father voted absentee in the primary but died a week or so later Raine Oct 2016 #73

There is no national clearing house for tracking deaths...it even difficult beachbumbob Oct 2016 #77

Why is this a surprise? ChairmanAgnostic Oct 2016 #78

Unaddressed by the media: How many die in the US every year? Hekate Oct 2016 #79

Removal for not voting for a while: Statement by League of Women Voters (Ohio): WinkyDink Oct 2016 #80

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