My mother-in-law passed away in April 2016. She was in an assisted living facility and her mail was being forwarded to our home. We received her voting ballot at our home even though she had died several months earlier. This made us wonder why agencies do not share death information to avoid ballots being mishandled.
In late 2019, we received a jury notice for our dead family member to report for jury duty even though she had passed years earlier. We wrote to the court that she had died over three years ago and they need to be better informed so they do not send notices to dead people. That stellar court sent a response addressed to our dead mother-in-law that she did not have to report as directed. We looked at each other in dismay and laughed at the folly of our state government. This demonstrates to us that mail-in balloting is not the best way to vote if they cannot take dead people off the rolls.
All agencies within the state must be tasked with having accurate records of death and act to ensure voting ballots, jury duty notices and other correspondences are not sent to people who are no longer with us.
Jay Blackett, Sandy