Morning Note

Election Day is here. How many dead people will vote?

Michigan’s voter rolls include over 2,400 registrants listed as at least 110 years old, a complaint filed by conservative law firm Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) alleges. The seven-page document accuses state officials of keeping the purported senior citizens – very senior citizens – eligible to vote even though 47 of them have birth years in the 1800s. One is listed with a birthday in 1823, the same year James Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine. PILF also claims there are nearly 2,000 duplicate registrations. 

America’s oldest known person is 116-year-old Naomi Whitehead. She lives in Georgia, not Michigan. The most elderly resident on record in the Great Lakes State is a 111-year-old named Linda Gaither. Unless Mrs. Gaither has thousands of friends who are ready to hit the polls, her state’s election officials may have some serious explaining to do. Read more.