[Spiff]

Are you asserting that every one of these baptisms by proxy is done by a relative of the individual in question?

That isn't practical. You can have other people do the work for the ancestors you've submitted. But, you do have to be a relative to submit a name to have the work done.

[thoughtomator]

My copy of The New York Jewish Week in its story dated 12/19/03 implies that dead people without Mormon relatives are in fact baptised by LDS, and that one of the problems with regards to the violation of the 1995 agreement is that "the church must better educate its members of its policy not to baptize a dead person without the explicit permission of a relative."

I think that people are in fact baptizing whatever names they can get their hands on, in violation of this policy. If it were just peoples' relatives, I don't think there would be an issue here. I would be curious to know who Anne Franks' Mormon relatives are.