The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Missouri for alleged voting law violations, claiming that people who have moved or died may still be eligible to vote due to inaccurate and inflated registration rolls.

The lawsuit contends the state is violating a federal law that requires it to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters. The state has wrongly delegated that duty to 116 local election jurisdictions, which are putting forth a shoddy and inconsistent effort, the lawsuit claims.

Some have left the names of dead people on the voter rolls, the Justice Department said. Others have failed to do meaningful reviews of voters rolls for people who have moved. Still others have taken voters off the rolls prematurely, the lawsuit says.

The suit said 29 election jurisdictions had more registered voters last November than they did voting-age residents. The high mark was in Reynolds County, where voter rolls were at 151 percent of the county’s 2004 census for voting age population.

I wonder how many cemetary votes went for John Ashcroft vs. the dead competitor who beat him?



  1. Jerry Joslyn says:

    If we are to extend the right to life to the not-yet-born is it asking too much to extend the right to vote to the previously alive?

  2. I keep remebering the voting system in Bangladesh – red ink on the arm.

    If you walk in here, and you didnt vote yet – meaning, your hands arent marked – you can vote.

    No dead voters would walk in, I am sure.

    No voter computer error or fraud.

    No registereed/unregistered voter mess. No registration costs. No inaccurate voter rolls.

    No statistics either, though. That could be good, actually.

  3. Floyd says:

    I remember the Chicago get-out-the-vote campaign: “Vote early, vote often.”

  4. jasontheodd says:

    As a resident of the show-me state, I might argue that this has become a state tradition. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) did a lot of complaining about this, and every generation after has made mention as well. It really wasn’t a well kept secret.

  5. Mike says:

    You don’t really think Ashcroft won the dead vote do you?

  6. meetsy says:

    If I were dead, I’d vote for someone who was also dead.

  7. Pat says:

    meetsy

    like Ashcroft ?


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