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Adept politicians pay attention to voting bocs, which are aggregations of citizens who share interests that influence their voting. Religion, ethnicity, and age are common issue clusters around which voting blocs form.
A voting bloc that has been neglected in the 2016 Presidential campaign is dead people.
It is fair to say that the 2016 Presidential election is a grave decision for voters, but it is a quite different matter that dead people register to vote in significant numbers and many of them do vote.
It is true that electoral officials work to prevent dead people from voting because they have no voting rights; still many of them vote anyway.
Election officials attempt to limit dead people voting by comparing voter registration roles and voting records against the Death Master File maintained by the Social Security Administration.
When dead people vote and are found out it is considered election fraud.
People who assist dead people with voting are charged with election fraud as was recently the case with an 88 year old Illinois woman, Audrey R. Cook.
Her husband of 66 years, Vic Cook, recently applied for absentee ballots to vote in the 2016 election but died before they could complete them together.
So Audrey went ahead and completed Vic’s for him and sent both ballots in.
Vic’s ballot was identified as a dead person voting and was nullified.
Audrey now faces potential election fraud charges.
The case is complicated by the fact that both Vic and Audrey were Madison County election judges, as Audrey was when she filed the dead person vote.
I hope that the Illinois Attorney General will cut Audrey a break.
She is grieving a loss and to her Vic is not really gone, so it is comprehensible to me that she would assist him in casting his last vote, even from the grave.
Vic’s dead man vote will not count in the election, of course, but we should have compassion enough for people like Audrey who lose those they love to understand how they may continue to act as if they were among the living.
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