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Quote:'Diehard' Democrat wrong choice for panel
Alabama party didn't realize he was dead when he was appointed

updated 11:11 a.m. CT, Wed., Oct . 14, 2009
MOBILE, Ala. - Reynolds Smith Jr. was a stalwart Democratic voter. But the Alabama Democratic Party overlooked another fact when it appointed Smith to an interim party panel: He died in November at age 83.

Party executive director Jim Spearman told the Press-Register on Tuesday that the mistake was caused by outdated records.

He said the party received Smith's name from a 2006 list of candidates for the Mobile County committee and then used a voter list to verify him as an active voter.

The panel was charged with replacing the local party's executive committee.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33310078/ns/...eird_news/

I wish we could get in dead people into the B'ham mayor's office and the County Commission. They'd certainly screw up a lot less.

Dead people have been voting in Alabama for many decades. There has never been a requirement that the Coroner office send any notification of death to the voter registrar's office. The dead voters are usually "caught" when the voter lists are purged periodically and then only if they haven't "voted" in several elections. The V-R office sends out inquiries from time to time and a reply is needed to keep a name active, but if they get a reply, they generally accept it unless a protest is filed.