Posted on 04/10/2009 8:58:50 AM PDT by DFG
AUSTIN — Alegria Arce Hibbetts of Austin got a letter in late March saying that she might be dead.
Or more specifically, the Texas secretary of state’s Texas Election Administration Management system indicated she was a “possible deceased voter.” She had 30 days to prove otherwise, and she wasn’t sure how to do that — the response form allowed only for a family member to sign off on her death.
There was nowhere to check “I’m alive,” said Hibbetts, 74, who lives just north of the University of Texas. “I don’t know where they got that information.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Dead voter ping.
Just to let the gov. know if you are deceased so your local ACORN can vote for you. They don’t want to disenfranchise the dead from voting.
If Austin is trying to keep her from voting, she probably voted Republican
The entire article is interesting. The secretary of state’s office runs a program that matches the voter rolls with every county’s death records dating back to 1964. If the last four digits of your SSN and your name match somebody listed as dead, the computer registers a match. If the “match” isn’t an exact match, they refer it to the various counties to check.
Apparently Travis County (Austin) simply took their list and sent out “Sooooo, we’re sorry you’re dead...” letters with no method on how to indicate you were still alive.
Other counties took the job more seriously.
So, the purging was initiated by the state, not the counties, and produced lists for the counties to double-check. Apparently, 47 of the 140 names on the were, indeed, deceased so the state was doing a worthwhile thing. The comedy comes from the county bungling the means of verifying the list’s results.
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