According to reports from Florida, Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Pinellas counties removed approximately 20,000 deceased registered voters from the voting rolls.

The spotlight’s been on dead voters since the Florida Department of
State used a new state law to get access to 90 million files about
people who’ve died across America. The results, issued in recent weeks
to Florida’s 67 counties: 51,966 dead people still listed as active
voters.

…Counties previously missed most deaths of Florida voters if they
occurred in another state, because state law did not allow Social
Security Administration data to be used to purge voter rolls. Only data
from the state Bureau of Vital Statistics could be used.

A Florida
law in 2011 changed that, and the state’s giant dump of dead voter
names came as a result of using national Social Security records of
people who died, going back “decades,” Cate said. In the future, the
lists would be smaller, reflecting only the new deaths, he said.

“This is a very positive development,” said Cate. “We were able to access a new database.”

Broward
has removed 4,482 names of dead people from the April results,
according to state data. Miami-Dade dropped 4,860 names, and Palm Beach County
shed 6,682. Another popular retirement county, Pinellas on the west
coast, also had more than 4,000 dead people on its rolls, the state’s
data shows. 

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