Posted on 05/20/2012 8:37:30 PM PDT by iowamark
I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.
How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because 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.
Here is the bad news. Most states aren’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, I have heard reports that 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.
But surely people aren’t voting in the names of dead voters, the voter fraud deniers argue. Wrong.
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, even if Eric Holder’s Justice Department and many state election officials don’t.
SS death index is still up on Ancestry.com.
The Rootsweb worked much better/quicker. Not sure why, other than "misuse" it was taken down. Nothing to stop users from "misusing" the Ancestry.com index, assuming they can find the person they are looking for...
I expect all 53,000 dead voters to be found again on election day - in line to vote for Obama, just before the polls close.
Haven’t been on Rootsweb in a long time But I was amazed that the SS# was listed on the index on Ancestry. Dumb thing IMO.
Many of my relatives had their S/S numbers up. I think that is why Rootsweb dropped the S/S Death List. Really, really, easy for identity thieves. But if one had S/S # of person they were searching for, it did make positive ID possible. But as always, a few idiots ruin it for all.
I get so many hits for same name on Ancestry. Why I preferred Rootsweb.
I’ll go on Rootsweb even though I have a year subscription to Ancestry. Thanks and I do agree with you on the SS#.
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