[JimRed]

Clerk Janice Winfrey bought lists of deaths from the state and city health department.

Yes, apparently she had to buy the lists. Why one government agency should have to pay for mere information from another government agency puzzles me.

In fact, death lists should be automatically forwarded to the appropriate boards of elections.

[Titan Magroyne]

Clerk Janice Winfrey bought lists of deaths from the state and city health department.Yes, apparently she had to buy the lists. Why one government agency should have to pay for mere information from another government agency puzzles me.

In fact, death lists should be automatically forwarded to the appropriate boards of elections. It could be that her buying the lists like any private citizen was an end run around anticipated civil servant shenanigans. Joan Q. Public pays the fee and takes the list, you hardly look at her twice. The new City Clerk in office after a scandal - soon as the request comes in through appropriate governmental channels and with official agency header, it might inspire a little um ... creativity from the records provider. Sad to imagine corruption that deep, but *shrug* there ya go.