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Article: Just in Time for Halloween: 'Deadwood' on Registered Voter Rolls.
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Aristotle International, a leading non-partisan provider of political technology and data, announced the results of its annual "Deadwood" voter registration compilation. The study, conducted by Aristotle every year since 2000, compares government lists of people who have moved or died to the voter registration lists obtained from state or county elections agencies. This year's data indicates that 16,331,707 (or 8.9%) of all registered voters are what elections experts call "Deadwood" - a 3% increase since the last estimate in October 2008. In total, nearly 10% of voters listed on registration rolls are ineligible to vote due to a change in residence or death according to ...