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Dead Voters Still Showing Up on Election Records, Puzzling Officials
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Jun 06, 2008 06:03am |
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| News Date | Friday, June 6, 2008 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jane Drury voted last year in an election in Stonington, Conn. The only problem is, she died eight years ago.
Her daughter Jane Gumpel thought someone must have goofed.
“I was surprised because this is not possible,” she said.
But it did happen. The town clerk’s record clearly shows Drury’s vote, marked by a horizontal line poll workers put next to her name. And it turns out, Drury isn’t the only voter to apparently cast a ballot from the grave.
The issue of dead voters showing up on ballot records continues to be a problem for election administrators across the country.
Journalism professor Marcel Dufresne, at the University of Connecticut, led a class investigation into dead voters and said his group of 11 students discovered 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared somehow to have cast ballots after they died.
“We have one person who appeared to have voted 17 times since he died,” Dufresne said.
Dufresne said there is no evidence of any election fraud, but the number of dead voters “shows the system is vulnerable and it shows that people who are clever and have a little cooperation in the town level, you could use this and get people to vote for people who died.”
Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz is adamant that “actually no dead people voted.”
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