Dead man voting: Texas man tries to cast posthumous ballot
By Joe Battenfeld | Wednesday, January 11, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Election 2012 Photo
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A mystery man trying to vote in the New Hampshire primary using a dead man’s name got caught by an eagle-eyed voting supervisor in Manchester, then disappeared before police could corral him.
“We take a lot of pride in this primary,” Gloria Pilotte, the Ward 9 supervisor who stopped the voter fraud, told the Herald.
“I’m very confident about the way we do this in New Hampshire.”
The man, dressed in a suit and tie, did not say why he was trying to vote as the recently deceased person and would not identify any group he was representing.
“He said, ‘You’ll soon find out,’ ” Pilotte said.
In past primaries, some candidates or groups have tried to challenge the results or demand recounts based on claims of voting irregularities.
The man, who admitted being from Texas, almost got away with the fraud. He came in to the polling place and gave election officials the name of a man who was still on the voter list. Voters here don’t have to present ID if they are registered.
But Pilotte recognized the name and knew the man had died within the past 10 days. Pilotte said the voter list wasn’t updated because the man had died so recently.
She suspects the fraudulent voter got the name by checking recent obituaries.
Just think how many absentee ballots can be cast by going through the obituaries!
A list of dead people which can be used to vote absentee published each day just before an election!