Bysiewicz investigates dead voters
By ConnPolitics.tv Editor on Apr 22, 2008 | In News, Sec'y of the State | 9 feedbacks »
Hartford (AP/WTNH) – Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is ordering city and town clerks to immediately provide their local registrars of voters with death notices to help make sure the names of dead people aren’t appearing on the voter rolls.
Bysiewicz is also urging the State Elections Enforcement Commission to investigate whether any registrars or clerks have failed to remove the names of dead voters.
There are 370 “dead voters” on the list in the City of New Haven.
“As we prepare for our national election it is absolutely critical that we have clean, accurate, voter lists,” Secretary Bysiewicz said Monday. “This is a wake up call to every local election official in our state.”
State law requires town clerks each month to provide registrars of voters with updated death notices for all citizens over age 17.
A group of journalism students at the University of Connecticut recently conducted a two-month investigation of local voting records. The Hartford Courant reported that students found 300 deceased people across the state who appear to have voted in elections dating back to 1994.
9 comments
1. In 2006 my husband switched from Unaffiliated to Democrat three months before the primary election, in order to vote in the Lieberman v. Lamont primary. Why, after he requested an absentee ballot, TWICE, did he only receive it after the election, postmarked the day of the election?? For years he's travelled often and always requests absentee ballots, receiving them promptly.
2. Why, in 2008, did the town of Fairfield purge my husband from the Democratic Party's roster? They claimed he never changed his registration, and produced the original sign-up when we moved to town and he registered Unaffiliated. And since they conveniently had no evidence of his ever having voted in a primary, he was disenfranchised from voting.
My husband and I are well-known for activism, and were for Lamont in 2006 and are for Obama in 2008, and we know neither of these were the choices of the local and state Democratic Party machinery.
My husband has since registered AGAIN, and they would NOT give him any proof of registration, since "they just don't do that", and they would not allow me to photograph him and the forms as he signed them. We can only hope he doesn't get purged. He is utterly at the mercy of the town.
My husband grew up mostly in New Mexico, one of the most corrupt states in the union, including some of the worst voter disenfranchisement and fraud. He thought he'd heard it all, but HE is shocked at what has happened to him.
Susan Bysiewicz, investigate this NOW!
I'm not surprised by your comments. There is so much corruption or incompetance in everything the government/ states run.
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