Texas asks voters: 'Are you dead?'
Source: Toronto Sun
Before Texans head for the polls in November, the state wants to know one thing: Are you dead?
Election officials are sending letters to thousands of voters asking them to verify they are alive, in compliance with a 2011 law requiring officials to cross-reference the voter list with the social security death list, the Austin Statesman reported Thursday.
So-called notices of examination are going out to 77,000 of the state's approximately 13 million registered voters.
Because of the size of the "master death file" with 89 million entries the Social Security Administration "does not guarantee its accuracy," the newspaper said, as one Michael Moore, very much alive, found out when he received a notice.
Voters who are still alive have 30 days to return the form or call their county and confirm they are breathing.
Read more: http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/14/texas-asks-voters-are-you-dead
lexx21
(321 posts)but it's just for tax purposes
- Restaurant at the end of the universe
Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)It would probably be challenged in court in any other state.
oldsarge54
(582 posts)What will they do if someone answers affirmative? The reason I ask is because for some reason the VA thought I was dead. It took some serious fussing and cussing to convince them otherwise.
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)And, of by the way, I am a Texan.
But if I get a form asking if I'm alive, I can either fill out the form and return it, or call the county and confirm it?
Am I the only one that could imagine that if someone really were trying to pull off voter fraud ANY WAY, someone could falsely complete and return the form and/or call the county pretending to be the voter in question?
Where is the verification of the voter in all of this??? I must not be getting this...
EC
(12,287 posts)that people just throw the notices away thinking they are junk mail or a joke. They are then automatically taken off the roles.
But yeah, the whole thing is stupid in their reasoning.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)So why are you bothering me? Can't you see that I am trying to Rest In Peace? Geeesh!
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)At least that's how it seems to me after living here for over 20 years. Ann Richards was the last good governor we've had.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)I will report in the moment it does.
Waltons_Mtn
(345 posts)I will send it back saying "Alive and well and voting for Obama!"
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)They keep sending him a new voter card. We return it marked "deceased". The next year, he gets another one.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)What's to stop people from calling and saying that someone that they don't want to vote is dead.
Perhaps someone should get out the Texass RapeubliCON voter rolls, and make a few phone calls to the office where they are compiling the "master death file."
tanyev
(42,610 posts)AnneD
(15,774 posts)it is hard to tell the difference. My school is a polling place. I know from whence I speak.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)"Why yes, I'm a zombie."