Cameron County Man Gets Voter Card 10 Years After His Death
Posted: Jan 14, 2014 7:51 PM
Updated: Jan 14, 2014 8:27 PM
BROWNSVILLE - A Cameron County resident wants to know why his father-in-law keeps receiving voter registration cards 10 years after his death.
Malcom Jones said the cards could lead to voter fraud.
Cameron County elections officials mailed out 165,000 voter registration cards in the past month. The elections office said thousands were returned because voters did not update their information.
Jones said his father-in-law, Morris Dodd, always voted. He died in October, 2004.
"It's been 10 years. They shouldn't be sending this. If they missed two times and didn't vote they shouldn't be sending this," Jones said.
Jones said he found a new voter registration card for his father-in-law in the mail last week.
"With the amount of voter fraud in the Valley, somebody better be checking on these," he said.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS visited the Cameron County Elections Office to find out why they keep issuing voter registration cards to Dodd.
"He has not voted since 2004," said Christopher Davis, Cameron County elections administrator.
Davis said no one has used Dodd's information to commit voter fraud.
Still, he acknowledged it could happen.
"Voter fraud on absentee ballots by mail is easier than in person," Davis said.
Davis said the county has seen cases of fraud involving dead voters' information. He said it's the city's or county's job to notify the elections office of changes, such as deaths.
"I would imagine he wouldn't be the only one out of 165,000," Davis said of Dodd.
Davis said many times county and city records don't make it to the elections office.
Still, he said the new voter identification law should cut down on voter fraud.
"If a certificate were to fall into the wrong hands, the new voter ID law comes into hand," he said.
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