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Valley's Dead Cast Their Vote
New York's new statewide database of registered voters contains as many as 77,000 dead people on its rolls. As many as 2,600 of them have cast votes from the grave, according to a Poughkeepsie Journal computer-assisted analysis. The analysis was examined the potential for errors and fraud in New York's three-month-old database. No fraud was found however errors had been made.
Tags: voting; fraud; elections; ghost voters; computer assisted reporting
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Dead Voters (Deceases residents cast 2003 ballots)
This CAR investigation of voting records and Social Security death records found that deceased residents voted in the primary election in 2003. It was also found that thousands of dead people remain as registered voters on the voter rolls. State and local officials say this can create an 'opportunity for ghostly corruption.'
Tags: election; registered voters; corruption; dead voters; voter fraud