I have learned that Florida election officials are set to announce that the secretary of state has discovered and purged up to 53,000 dead voters from the voter rolls in Florida.It's a good start. But only for this one state.
How could 53,000 dead voters have sat on the polls for so long? Simple. Because Florida hadnÂ’t been using the best available data revealing which voters have died.
Next question: How come any state would avoid switching over to the best available data for so long?
Florida is now using the nationwide Social Security Death Index for determining which voters should be purged because they have died.
Here is the bad news. Most states arenÂ’t using the same database that Florida is. In fact, I have heard reports that some election officials wonÂ’t even remove voters even when they are presented with a death certificate.
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That means that voter rolls across the nation still are filled with dead voters, even if Florida is leading the way in detecting and removing them.
But surely people arenÂ’t voting in the names of dead voters, the voter fraud deniers argue. Wrong.
Consider the case of Lafayette Keaton. Keaton not only voted for a dead person in Oregon, he voted for his dead son. Making KeatonÂ’s fraud easier was OregonÂ’s vote by mail scheme, which has opened up gaping holes in the integrity of elections. The incident in Oregon just scratches the surface of the problem. Massachusetts and Mississippi are but two other examples of the dead rising on election day.
Or when 5:00 rolls around and it's time to go home from your government job.
Florida should be applauded for taking the problem seriously, even if Eric HolderÂ’s Justice Department and many state election officials donÂ’t.
That's going to make the unions have to work that much harder to play games with the locations of their hidden and pre-loaded voting machines.