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. The A.P. this morning …the deceased voters of Walthall County could not Notably, the ruling does not explicitly address the voting rights of
District Court, dead people who used to live in Mississippi’s Walthall
County will no longer be allowed to vote there.
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.
be reached for comment, and I’m having a hard time finding other
opponents of the decree.
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.