Frankly, I don't understand why each county can't send a list of deaths to election officials on a regular basis. A death certificate is issued by the county coroner for every person who dies. Those death certificates are usually recorded by the county clerk's office or Dept. of Vital Statistics. Why they can't be responsible for issuing a certified list to the required election office is beyond me. You'd think it would be such an easy system to set up and operate. It just seems like a whole lot of county offices are not following through on what should be a standard practice. I mean, it's not as if registered voters have just started dying. It's just that for some reason, their deaths are conveniently being overlooked. How else can they explain the large numbers of deceased people still being on voter rolls years after their deaths?
The article said the county board of elections used to have two people who did nothing but go through the newspaper and cut out obits. I called my county board who said they did the same thing. But I question whether that is the best way to keep track of deaths. I'd be more inclined to believe that an official list of deaths from a county coroner's office or county clerk's office would be more accurate. Besides, who's to say that some clerk in one or more of those county offices, cutting out those obits, isn't withholding some of those names and selling them for fraudulent purposes? I'm sure it happens.
Because Acorn puts them back on.
No, of course it wouldn’t be difficult to check the voter rolls against the registries of deaths.
Why don’t they do it? Because they don’t want to. It’s very convenient for them to have dead people on the rolls. It doesn’t matter whether they were Democrats or Republicans, because if they don’t show up at the polls, then they can be voted whichever way election officials choose. Usually Democrat. The old Republican machines are now largely a thing of the past.