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More Dead D’s Vote Than Dead R’s

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New York's new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls, and as many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to an analysis by the Poughkeepsie Journal. The analysis is the first to examine the potential for errors and fraud in New York's 3-month-old database, although the same method has been used in other states. It matched names, dates of birth and ZIP codes in the state's database of 11.7 million voter registration records against the same information from the Social Security Administration's records of 77 million deaths dating back to 1937. ... Democrats who cast votes after they died outnumbered Republicans by more than a 4-1 ratio. The reason: Most of them came from Democrat-dominated New York City, where a higher population produced more matches -- Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.

DFO: Obviously, Demos have a better organization in the herafter than Republicans.

Hat Tip: Dorene



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.