Sound Politics: Mail Ballot Horror Show (XIV): Dead People Voting?

September 23, 2006

Mail Ballot Horror Show (XIV): Dead People Voting?

King County Elections posts the voter id's of returned (not necessarily accepted) absentee ballots . The statewide database indicates that several of these voters had been cancelled as deceased.

It's possible the sender might have written deceased on the return envelope. But some of these registrations were cancelled months ago and the ballots shouldn't necessarily have been issued. It's possible the registrations were cancelled in error and subsequently reinstated? (some reappear as active in later database releases). But incorrectly cancelling eligible voters isn't such a good move either.

Absentee voters cancelled as of Feb. 28:
BAILEY, ROBERT, BURIEN b. 1920 (King County voter id 750147411)
JACOBSON, AUDREY, SHORELINE b. 1923 (711733663)
LARSON, HOWARD, BELLEVUE b. 1925 (722140311)
NELSON, MILAN, AUBURN b. 1934 (900205686)
RUSSELL, ROBERT, SEATTLE b. 1911 (711019049)
SMITH, GEORGE, SEATTLE b. 1919 (890077404)
TERRY, ROBERT, SEATTLE b. 1924 (20404728)

Cancelled as of May 31 release
BARTON, ELEANOR, RENTON b. 1922 (800521483)
LANG, ALEXANDER, SEATTLE b. 1954 (760280330)
MITCHELL, MARGARET, KENT b. 1922 (710021031)
SEDELL, RUTCHER, MERCER ISLAND b. 1929 (710408599)
STOCKWELL, FREEMAN, KENT b. 1922 (712138416)

Cancelled as of July 31 (August 7) release
PAGE, MARLENE, REDMOND b. 1946 (950708000)

Cancelled as of August 30 release
WILLARD, CAROLYN, KENT b. 1942 (711571159)

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 23, 2006 04:58 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Ok, KCE, cough it up. what's going on here??
Thanks for the post, Stefan.

Posted by: Misty on September 23, 2006 05:02 PM

2. Dude... "That's an accuracy rate any bank would be proud of!"... In Cuba!

Posted by: Jeremy on September 23, 2006 05:14 PM

3. "I deny any culpability because I'm in Kenya stopping global warming."

/s/ Travelin' Ron

Posted by: Tyler Durden on September 23, 2006 05:23 PM

4. Outstanding work Stefan. Does the lockdown version of the database have canceled reg status? If so, we could post 'the daily dead' report as each days abs returns are posted for the general.

Posted by: gregg on September 23, 2006 11:59 PM

5. Jeremy--please show some respect for our Fearless County Leader and the newly-named-at-additional-cost County. "Excuse me...excuse me, gentlemen..." Show some "good home training."

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on September 24, 2006 07:42 AM

6. no disrespect, but maybe the deceased voters remaining on the voting rolls are Sims' version of 'sleeper cells;' they will vote when activated; he's committed more than enough 'jihads' against KC taxpayers, property owners & voters.

in seriousness, weren't this and other problems allegedly cleaned up? again, Sims did not do his job. voters again got the two-step & flip-off from the cheshire cat--and again there is silence from the populace. p.c. King County afraid to hold this snake-oil salesman's feet to the fire--why? diversity?

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on September 24, 2006 07:56 AM

7. Hmmmm...

Another red herring. This is a big maybe, with no proof, no evidence of anything illegal or untoward. No system is going to be 100% failsafe. Short of having people vote in the open and the tally kept as they vote, then having the voter swear that was their vote, and only after photo ID and DNA have been verified. There is nothing here to get your skivveys in a bunch.

Posted by: frogtalk4u on September 24, 2006 09:18 AM

8. No proof? What kind of proof do you want? They died months ago, their voter registration was cancelled months ago, before absentee ballots were mailed out, yet somehow they managed to return an absentee ballot.

Posted by: Michael on September 24, 2006 10:23 AM

9. """"No system is going to be 100% failsafe.""""""""
Not if the Democrat party has any thing to say about it.
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 459
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H R 4844 YEA-AND-NAY 20-Sep-2006 4:00 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 224 3 3
Democratic 4 192 5
Independent 1
TOTALS 228 196 8

House vote on HR 4844, 20 Sep 2006 192 Democrats
voted against Federal Election Integrity Act. I'm totally amazed that 4 Democrats voted for Voter
Integrity. The entire vote is here.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll459.xml

Posted by: pagar on September 24, 2006 10:30 AM

10. http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2006/09/21/why-dont-democrats-want-election-reform/

Interesting story above that asked the question if Dem's are the ones that feel the 2004 & 2000 elections were stolen, then why do they resist improvements in the voting process?

The obvious answer is that inaccurate and corupt elections are something that the Democratic party and its leadership desires. Let's think about that and remember to think globably, but act locally.

Is it any wonder that King County has not and will not clean up its election mess? Nope. Is it any wonder that in a state controlled by Dem's that there is little political will to clean up the election process? Nope again.

While there were rallies in Olympia over the governor's race, the open public anger has appeared to have died down to those running Olympia.

Thank you Sound Politics for trying to keep the mess from being swept under the rug and totally forgotten.

Posted by: Bob on September 24, 2006 12:04 PM

11. Bob, Good article. Thanks for posting it. I just don't see how anyone can defend a NO vote on this
bill. I think that is what Democrat leaders keep hoping, open public anger will die down.

Posted by: pagar on September 24, 2006 01:05 PM

12. If an absentee ballot is returned with "deceased" written on it, would we not be disenfranchising the voter if we didn't attempt to determine their intent?

I can hear it now... "Looks like another vote for Gregoire to me"

Posted by: eric on September 25, 2006 08:17 AM

13. Do you not remember the one Democratic Activist on the attempt to do a revote for the Govenors race. Her son (who had recently died) would be disenfranched. I do not have a link to that one. For Democrats it has always been their dead vote must count. The only way to grow the Democratic numbers is to go to the graveyard. They dont need the money from the dead just their votes. They get enough money from their millionaire friends.

Posted by: David Anfinrud on September 25, 2006 10:24 AM

14. The Democrats have several other ways of growing their
numbers; just let voters vote as many times as they want, just let anyone in the world vote (forget about this terrible hardship-must be a US Citizen).
Witness the No vote on the Voter Integrity Act of 2006 by 192 Democrat Reps.

Posted by: pagar on September 25, 2006 10:57 AM

15. I had heard that former President Bill Clinton wanted to be buried in Chicago-- so he could stay active in the Democratic Party.

Now, though, the Slick One may be tempted to choose burial in King County.

Posted by: Steve Rankin on September 25, 2006 12:15 PM

16. so--a "su-ee-bomber" can still vote AFTER death, but we can't touch him before that per quasi-Geneva "rights" nor ask if he's illegal in Seattle---veerrrry progressive!

Posted by: jimmie-howya-doin on September 25, 2006 02:18 PM