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cafard
The dead may not be dropped from the voter rolls. List hygiene is a problem not just with governments: a professional association still sends its journal to the former owner of my house, dead more than a dozen years. I tried letting them know once, but now just recycle the journal. On the other hand, the District of Columbia, never really a byword for efficiency, hasn't sent election information to the late owner at this address.
MuffinFlavored
> a professional association still sends its journal to the former owner of my house, dead more than a dozen years

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM death_certificates WHERE ssn = 'the_dead_persons_ssn';

if count is greater than 0, strip from list...?

sroussey
Great fun to hack such a db and everyone off.
filesystem
I could be wrong, but I don't think that a professional association / publication would have access to social security numbers.
GolDDranks
Uhh, what the hell...? Why does there exists a website that lets you see personal information like this?
[dead] opwieurposiu
Well of course dead people are gonna vote for Joe. Identity politics rules the day, and Joe is half-dead.
[dead] maallooc
Since Biden won, this is just a bureaucracy hiccup. If Trump won, we would've held a reelection because this is a serious voter fraud issue.
eli
This blog post is absolute rubbish. Wild speculation based on a misunderstanding of how voter registrations work.