Senator Jack Harper proposes electronic method to allow politicos to report names of the deceased still on the voting rolls

Harper proposes electronic method to allow politicos to report names of the deceased still on the voting rolls.

January 14, 2009
For Immediate Release:

State Senator Jack Harper has proposed SB1109 voter registrations; death notices. Under the bill, committees that report campaign finance to the Secretary of State's Office with a password, including candidates, Political Action Committees, and political parties, will have an electronic method to report a name still on the voting rolls of a deceased person. According to the Secretary of State's office, the current mechanism to remove the recently deceased is transmitted through their agency to the county recorder after a death notice has been issued. If the notice does not have a clear match to a voter, the family of the voter that is suspected of being deceased, receives a letter to confirm. Before the death notice mechanism was in place, County Recorder's relied on family members making the initial contact. If the person dies in a state other than where they were registered to vote, there is no know mechanism to report electronically.

Under Harper's proposal, those that are most likely to be canvassing neighborhoods and recording information about voters, could log in on the Secretary of State's web site to report campaign financing and have an opportunity to report deceased names still on the voting rolls automatically triggering the letter to the household. In canvassing neighborhoods with a higher average age of voters, it is common to find that the inaccurate voting rolls are a liability to fraudulent voting.