Pro-Democrat Iowa county's voter rolls filled with deceased residents

[Richardson]

Betty Ellis doesn’t know why 100 dead people were registered to
vote in Wright County.

That’s a problem. Ellis is the county auditor and in charge of
elections there.

Wright County’s number of registered dead came to light last
week when Secretary of State Matt Schultz announced that 1,234
Iowans who are listed as dead by the Social Security
Administration are still registered to vote.

“We reviewed the information from the Social Security death
index and then sent names that appeared on both the index and
the voter rolls to the auditor of the county the person is
registered in so the auditor can determine if the information is
accurate and the person’s name needs to be removed,” Schultz’s
spokesperson, Chance McElhaney, told Iowa Watchdog.

Only Wayne County didn’t have any dead people registered. Most
of Iowa’s other 98 counties had numbers in the single digits or
low teens.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/23/iowa-countys-voter-
rolls-filled-with-deceased-residents/?intcmp=obnetwork

[NotMe]

Betty Ellis doesn't know why 100 dead people were registered to
vote in Wright County.
That's a problem. Ellis is the county auditor and in charge of
elections there.
Wright County's number of registered dead came to light last
week when Secretary of State Matt Schultz announced that 1,234
Iowans who are listed as dead by the Social Security
Administration are still registered to vote.
"We reviewed the information from the Social Security death
index and then sent names that appeared on both the index and
the voter rolls to the auditor of the county the person is
registered in so the auditor can determine if the information is
accurate and the person's name needs to be removed," Schultz's
spokesperson, Chance McElhaney, told Iowa Watchdog.
Only Wayne County didn't have any dead people registered. Most
of Iowa's other 98 counties had numbers in the single digits or
low teens.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/23/iowa-countys-voter-
rolls-filled-with-deceased-residents/?intcmp=obnetwork

Many voter registrars don't have the staff or funds to purge the rolls. The
question that should be asked is how many of these dead on the rolls voted
in the last election?