Newser – by Rob QuinnJust because your heart’s not beating shouldn’t mean your vote doesn’t count, according to lawmakers in Indiana. The House Elections Committee in the state is considering changing a law that nullifies absentee ballots cast by voters who die before Election Day, reports the AP. Rep. Matt Pierce told the committee he was moved by the situation of former US Rep. Frank McCloskey, who made a point of casting an absentee ballot while battling cancer but died days before Election Day in 2003. McCloskey knew the value of a vote: After a recount following the 1984 election, the Democrat was declared the winner by just four votes.
But while the proposal might sound odd, it would actually give dead Hoosiers the same voting rights as most other dead Americans. According to the Bloomington Herald-Times, Indiana is one of only three states with a “dead voter” law, which requires county clerks to check absentee ballots for recent deaths and has been blamed for election night delays. At a legislative forum last month, state Rep. Peggy Mayfield, a Republican, recalls that when she was serving as a county clerk, a man woke up from a coma and wanted to vote. He was given an absentee ballot but died the day before Election Day. “It’s sad,” says Mayfield, who isn’t opposed to changing the law.
http://www.newser.com/story/202307/indiana-bill-would-allow-dead-people-to-vote.html
Heck, dead people have been voting in IL and a few other swing states for years. Even when massive voting fraud has been discovered nothing is done to challenge the announced winners.
If 1 fraudulent vote was cast, the hole election is a fraud. But in this case it was a fraud long before the man died. Absentee ballots make me giggle. Same with mail in.
We would be better off with a “you want to vote? show the f@ck up on election day” system. Every vote becomes recorded and made public.
UNTIL THEN…
…I’ll just go ahead and keep ruling over myself. Thanks.
To quote a well-known douche bag… ” What difference at this point does it make?”
A fraud is a fraud.
Dead people been votin’ for decades. They just made it legal.
Not much difference between the physically dead and the brain-dead in this country anyway.