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October 31, 2004
Early Voting | Votes From the Dead to Count in Election

AP: Votes From the Dead to Count in Election

In what would be her last conscious act, 90-year-old Trixie Porter gripped a pen in her weak, trembling hand, checked the candidates of her choice and scrawled a squiggled signature on her absentee ballot.

Within an hour, the petite woman who had been suffering from heart problems lay back in her hospital bed, closed her eyes and never woke up. Her ballot arrived at her local elections board two days later, Oct. 5 — the day she died.

“We commented that day that it probably won’t count,” said daughter Cheryl McConnell. “But she went to her grave not knowing any different. It counted with her.”

An untold number of ballots like Porter’s will indeed be counted because of the haphazard and cumbersome process of enforcing laws in many states to weed out the absentee votes of those who die by Election Day.



Posted by Laurence Simon at October 31, 2004 02:16 PM | TrackBack
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And this would be news to who from Chicago?

Posted by: Wind Rider [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 31, 2004 03:59 PM

I’ve got no problem with the “She voted, then she died.” scenario. I’m afraid the reverse is much more common.

Posted by: torpedo_eight [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 31, 2004 06:21 PM

..RIP…

Posted by: Rob_NC [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 31, 2004 07:56 PM

That’s no miracle. In the past, dead folks have returned from the grave to vote for a democrat. Nothing short of a miracle.

Posted by: No Party [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 31, 2004 10:59 PM

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