How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Florida hadn’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died. Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.
Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, some election officials won’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate. That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.
In some cases, people are still voting in the names of dead voters and again in their names.
Consider the case of Lafayette Keaton. Keaton not only voted for a dead person in Oregon, he voted for his dead son. Making Keaton’s fraud easier was Oregon’s vote by mail scheme, which has opened up gaping holes in the integrity of elections. The incident in Oregon just scratches the surface of the problem. Massachusetts and Mississippi are but two other examples of the dead rising on election day.
Florida should be applauded for taking the problem seriously. We wish Eric Holder’s Justice Department and many state election officials will correct this problem.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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