Tabella has the link below, but I’ve got to post the full Clarion Ledger fun on our settlement in ACRU v. Walthall County: 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. Walthall County had 11,219 voting-age residents in 2012 and 12,752 registered voters as of Wednesday, according to the A.P. That’s a difference of about 1,500 registered voters who definitely should be purged from the list, but because only around 75 percent of the eligible voting population nationwide is registered, there’s a good chance that thousands more no longer belong on the voting rolls either. The lawsuit that sparked the settlement was brought by what I can only assume is the conservative version of the ACLU, the American Civil Rights Union. The group apparently believes voting rights should be restricted to those who can perform such complex tasks as breathing and filling out a ballot. 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. But honestly, that sounds like an awful lot of paperwork to vote in the local tax collector’s race.