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Hartford: Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz today announced that over the last three weeks her office oversaw a major cleanup of Connecticut’s local voter rolls. As a result thousands of deceased voters have been removed from voter lists in advance of November’s presidential election. “Three weeks ago I asked local elections officials to step up to the plate and investigate. They responded quickly and effectively to clean up the voter rolls,” said Bysiewicz. “Since April 20th, at the direction of my office, over 4,700 names of the deceased have been removed. This was a necessary act and major effort to ensure that integrity and security of November’s election.” The action was triggered as a result of an April 20, 2008 Hartford Courant story by University of Connecticut students claiming thousands of dead people were registered to vote. Since April 20th 80% of the deceased voters identified by the UCONN have been removed from the voter rolls. “This investigation has shown real systemic issues in how we track death information and get it to the Registrars of Voters so they can insure that we have accurate voter lists,” said Bysiewicz. “In many cases, local towns are not getting death information because town residents pass away out of town or out of state. This needs to be fixed, either through legislation or through our state’s Department of Public Health working with other states to share death information.” In large part to identification requirements already in place, none of the information presented by the University of Connecticut found any voter fraud where someone deliberately tried to steal the identity of a deceased person and vote in their name. In order to prevent deceased citizens from remaining on the voter rolls, the Office of the Secretary of the State will conduct a yearly match of names on our centralized Voter Registry with the CT Department of Public Health’s Master Death File. When a match is found the Office of the Secretary of the State will forward that information onto the local registrars of voters. Number of ‘Dead Voters’ according to UCONN 8,558 Number of ‘Dead Voters’ already removed from active list 2,411 Number of voters removed after UCONN data but before 4/20/2008 438 Number of voters verified as Dead and REMOVED since 4/20/2008 4,745 Number of voters listed as dead but actually alive 45 Number of active voters listed as deceased but death was not verifiable 1,451 The Office of the Secretary of the State has asked Registrars of Voters to canvass the 1,451 names of the deceased on the active rolls and move them to inactive status before November, assuming they receive no response from the canvass. © Copyright by StamfordPlus.com. Some articles and pictures posted on our website, as indicated by their bylines, were submitted as press releases and do not necessarily reflect the position and opinion of StamfordPlus.com, Stamford Plus magazine, Canaiden LLC or any of its associated entities. Articles may have been edited for brevity and grammar. Related Articles: Bysiewicz endorses federal legislation allowing non partisan voter registration at veterans health care facilities - Jul 23, 2008 - 3:51:28 PM Secretary of the State and Attorney General express outrage, V.A. extends ban to voter education - Jul 18, 2008 - 12:19:43 PM Attorney General says federal law allows non-partisan voter registration, education at VA hospitals - Jul 11, 2008 - 11:34:01 AM Secretary of Veterans Affairs asked to grant elections officials access to veterans facilities - Jul 2, 2008 - 10:07:59 AM Secretary of the State outraged by policy disenfranchising veterans - Jun 30, 2008 - 3:29:38 PM CURRENT HEADLINES: Top of Page
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