'Dead' Voters Still Cast Ballots

A comparison of records by an investigative reporter for CBS2/KCAL9 has revealed hundreds of so-called dead voters in Southern California, a vast majority of them in Los Angeles County, according to the station.

CBS2 found hundreds of so-called dead voters when it compared millions of voting records from the California Secretary of State’s office with death records from the Social Security Administration -- 265 in Southern California and a vast majority of them, 215, in Los Angeles County alone.

The numbers come from state records that show votes were cast in people's names after they died. In some cases, investigative reporter David Goldstein found hundreds of so-called dead voters who voted year after year.

Across all counties, Goldstein uncovered 32 dead voters who cast ballots in eight elections apiece, including a woman who died in 1988. Records show she somehow voted in 2014, 26 years after her death, CBS2 reported.

It remains unclear how the dead voters voted but 86 were registered Republicans and 146 were Democrats.

The station checked all of the dead voters from L.A. County on the Registrar’s website and found 212 of the 215 were still registered and eligible to vote in next month’s presidential primary election.

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