The Land of the Voting Dead

Hat tip to GOP and the City, which caught this one. On the heels of an editorial by the New York Times which said that voter identification would deter people from voting and would not deter voter fraud, I submit this as yet another example of how requiring voter identification could have preventing this incident in the first place.

In what can only be described as surreal testimony at the trial to overturn the May mayoral election, Mayor Douglas Palmer's campaign manager testified yesterday that he shredded three absentee ballots and a volunteer for the Tony Mack campaign claimed that a dead woman voted.

At issue in the trial -- prompted by a lawsuit filed by Mack and now in its third week before Superior Court Judge Linda R. Feinberg -- is whether the irregularities uncovered in that election rise to a level of fraud which would mandate a new election.

It appears that the woman claimed that she found that her mother had signed the poll book and had voted. The party affiliation of the dead vote? Democrat.

Once again, we're seeing all manner of voting problems that can affect the outcome in closely contested elections, and undermines the rights of all voters. Dead voters, voters who cast ballots in multiple jurisdictions, and other voting irregularities essentially nullify properly cast votes.