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To: mcg1969
But why---what would I ask?

I'd never thought about it until I saw a long thread here this morning, but there's apparently quite a bit of furor as if to the absentee ballot of a known deceased person is valid....

52 posted on 10/31/2004 2:53:47 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Democrats: appear in September, leavin' November 3 - worse than a 1-night stand...)
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To: ErnBatavia
I'd never thought about it until I saw a long thread here this morning, but there's apparently quite a bit of furor as if to the absentee ballot of a known deceased person is valid....

I for one have no problem with it. If I walk into a polling place, vote, and then get hit by a car, should they toss out my ballot? How can they practically do that? Well, I don't see the situation being any different with absentee ballots or early voting. Yes, it makes it a bit more likely to occur, but really it's still a very small number.

Besides, the real fraud is not people who die after they cast their vote---it is people who vote on behalf of people who are already dead. That's a far more pressing problem.

57 posted on 10/31/2004 3:40:55 PM PST by mcg1969
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