O.K. I was wondering who was supposed to report it. My father’s death was reported automatically to social security. The only government entity that I had to report his death to was the VA but that was about his life insurance, the rest of the notifications were all to private entities I think. He died in 2007 and I figured his death was reported to election officials somehow because the state mails out a “Polling Place Card” to each registered voter before presidential and and mid-term elections and I didn’t get one for him in 2008, I don’t think, and I know I didn’t get one for him this year.
But I live in state with a population of less than a million so it’s probably not that hard to stay on top of it. And in terms of politics, we have more of a back room dealing tradition than a fraud and corruption tradition. I don’t think very many dead people vote around here. :-)