Posted on 03/16/2012 9:05:08 PM PDT by fwdude
Thousands on the rolls after death, creating potential for fraud
Woodwick Street was quiet -- with a few residents working in their yards and adding to post-storm brush piles at the curb -- when Texas Watchdog visited on a recent Saturday to try to find Harris County voter Linda K. Hill.
"I'm sorry, but she passed on two years ago," said a mustached man wearing a Dallas Cowboys baseball cap and driving a motorized chair down the street. He was Linda Hill's husband, Henderson Hill Jr.
Linda Kay Hill, a homemaker and Louisiana native, died Aug. 2, 2006, of a heart attack, her husband recalled, and is buried at Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland. But Harris County voter records indicate she –- or someone using her identity –- cast a ballot in the November election that year. Linda Hill of Woodwick Street voted in person on Election Day, records show.
She is among the more than 4,000 people whose names are listed both on Harris County's voter rolls and also in a federal database of death records, a Texas Watchdog analysis has found.
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Can a citizen get a copy of the death register for a given state? Is the death register a public document?
If so, it would be easy to match a list of voters in an election with a the state death register to identify dead people who cast a vote.
I'm not sure in Texas if a registry is available; only individual certificates.
If so, it would be easy to match a list of voters in an election with a the state death register to identify dead people who cast a vote.
I've thought of this, too, and if someone had the time and industry for such a project, I think the effort would be enormously rewarded by those seeking such information for support of voter integrity legislation. Just a matter of doing it. But that person would be viciously attacked when word got out.
It sounds in the article as if Texas Watchdog did do a bit of this investigation. It seems time consuming since assuming the named death on the registry is the same registered voter would have to be followed up with other verification.
Thanks for the ping!
Obama can’t win Texas but we need to make sure that no zombies are voting in Ohio, Virginia, or Florida.
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