Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Beyond the Grave

Dead voters continue to cast ballots in New York. The discovery was made by the Poughkeepsie Journal which compared the voter registration database to the Social Security Adminstration's master file of the deceased.
The article cites other instances of this voting beyond the grave.
And in one of the more notorious examples, inspectors estimated that as many as 1 in 10 ballots cast in Chicago during the 1982 Illinois gubernatorial election were fraudulent for various reasons, including votes by the dead.
The Journal indicates other states are cleaning up their voter rolls, though not New York officially.
How about Chicago and Illinois? Are we there yet? Found this site.

UPDATE: Tuesday morning Tribune story on increasing numbers of states requiring photo IDs. Illinois lags, of course.

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