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> How about 30,000 Boogey Men?
Did you actually *read* the article you linked, or just the headline?
Of course there's dead people still registered to vote. It doesn't mean that there's fraudulent voting using their names. There's no systematic procedure to remove someone from the voter roll when they die. Maybe the Social Security system needs to be hooked into the state and local voting system so that they can do cross-checks to remove people when they die. Even with that, there would still be problems positively identifying people who move outside their voting area (or even to another state) before dying. They don't require a Social Security number to register to vote, so the chance of having false matches when trying to prune the voter roll would be pretty high.
There's historically been an anonymity to voting. Imagine if husbands could easily see who/what their wife voted for. Just picture the spike in domestic violence in heavy red states when a husband finds out his wife voted for Obama, or to legalize same-sex marriage, or for women's reproductive rights. Not pretty.
With anonymity, comes a certain amount of risk that there might be fraud. You can't have it both ways. Hopefully, the fraud is roughly equal on both sides and cancels each other out.
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