It’s not 1960 Chicago, but it could be.  It seems that some dead folks in Connecticut get up every Election Day, dust themselves off, and go vote.  While certainly more participatory than a lot of living voters, today’s Courant story about the deceased who remain on active voting rolls should surely send shivers down the spine of anyone concerned about the integrity of elections in Connecticut. 

That recorded vote, seven years after her death, puts Drury on a list of more than 300 people across Connecticut who appear to have voted from the grave in elections dating to 1994, a two-month investigation of voting records by journalism students at the University of Connecticut has found.

But before you start to really worry about, you know – the preservation of the Republic and other such small things - the Secretary of the State’s office is on duty:

Kozik, of the secretary of the state’s office, concedes: “There should be a better system of getting the death information to the registrars in a timely fashion. But I’m not exactly sure how we would do that.”

It is assured that the “voter fraud is a myth” crowd will dismiss the report as part of the great sinister plot to create a false boogeyman.  But nonetheless, reports like these, which are manifest across the nation, highlight the need to improve the election system we have in place now to ensure fraud is not part of American elections.

Update: The noted online journal Election Journal.org picked up the Courant story today, as well.