We do have a checklist of felons at every polling place. We’ve never had a checklist of the deceased. I imagine that would be hard to keep up to date. Until recently we had a hard time getting the County Clerk to remove the deceased from the poll lists.
One of our problems in Wisconsin is that state law allows voters to register at the polls on election day with minimal ID. Until this year, a person without ID could just have another person in line “vouch” for him. The fraud is not identified until months after the election. By then it does no good and is seldom prosecuted.
If you think Voter ID has raised a ruckus, just wait until the legislature tries to overturn same day registration!
By the way, voter ID has been passed by both the people and the legislature at least 3 times in the 27 years I’ve lived here and vetoed every time by a Dem governor. This time it was passed and put into effect, but the League of Women Voters and the ACLU sued and got injunctions put on the law. We used voter ID for one election, and it has been suspended ever since.
Correction, it was the League of Women Voters and the NAACP that sued. The ACLU hasn’t weighed in on this one yet.
Sorry. Timing is everything. And we seldom get to choose our timing.
And there is always the “purple ink” on the index finger.
That works too.