Dead People Vote in Connecticut

One of the many consequences of ceasing to function as a carbon-based biological unit is that you are unable to cast a ballot in public elections.

However, this does not seem to be the case in Connecticut (and most likely in other states as well) as reported in Shawn R. Beals, Thousands Of Dead People On Connecticut’s Voter Rolls, Courant.com, Oct. 6, 2008.

• Approximately 8,500 dead people are on the Connecticut voting rolls.
• Since the time of their deaths, approximately 300 decedents appear to have cast their ballots.
• State officials claim that the dead are not really returning to vote but instead blame the votes on clerical errors.
• State officials assert that none of the “dead votes” were the result of fraud.
• The Connecticut Secretary of State indicated a fear that by removing supposedly dead people from the rolls, some living people could also be removed causing disenfranchisement.
• A better system of notifying the keepers of voting rolls of voters deaths is needed.