A few weeks after my mother passed away last year, I stopped at the county’s Registrar’s office to tell them to remove her name from the voter roll. I’ve known the Registrar for decades and he informed me that he had put a hold on her name once he saw the obituary and then removed her as an eligible voter once he received official notice of her death from the local Health Department. (We are a small rural county and he said he checks all surrounding news-site’s obituary notices daily).
The Registrar said their office also received notice of her death from the State. So, it’s not as if the election officials aren’t notified of these deaths. I suspect most states have similar laws or rules of notification to the Registrar’s office that Georgia has in place. Once notified that someone is deceased, there is no reason to have their name remain on the voter rolls unless they plan to cast a vote in that person’s name. The only reason the Secretary of State would be fighting such an issue is for voter fraud.