“Miss. county won’t let dead people vote anymore; zombie voting rights uncertain”

The (Clarion Ledger) Buzz in Mississippi has a little fun reporting on the impact of the NVRA consent decree requiring list maintenance of the voter registration rolls:


Under a consent decree filed Wednesday in U.S.
District Court, dead people who used to live in Mississippi’s Walthall
County will no longer be allowed to vote there.



The A.P. this morning
first reported the deal, in which the county agreed to scrub its voter
rolls of people who shouldn’t be voting, including, but not limited to
disenfranchised felons, cadavers used for medical research, people who
live in Alaska, Civil War veterans and mummies.


…the deceased voters of Walthall County could not
be reached for comment, and I’m having a hard time finding other
opponents of the decree.


Notably, the ruling does not explicitly address the voting rights of
the undead — those who once died, and were then reanimated, like a
zombie or (SPOILER ALERT)¹ Buffy the Vampire Slayer. .
But because the process for disqualifying a dead voter involves
cross-checking with the Social Security Administration and the
Department of Health, there may be a way for disenfranchised corpses to
retain their voting rights by reactivating their social security
numbers.