Graveyard votes in Mexico
Here's a little research project for students to pursue.If dead people are left on voting rolls, does that affect the legitimacy of elections? How does the problem in Mexico compare to the problem in other countries? Or are the numbers so small that this article makes a big deal out of a normal bit of bureaucratic red tape?
And if the problem is more severe in some places than in others, do some parties potentially benefit more than others? (In other words, are there more graveyard votes in PRI, PAN, or PRD areas?)The Mexico edition of The Miami Herald and El Universal reports that
Over 1 mln on voter rolls already dead
"The names of the dead are not being removed from the official voter rolls, federal election authorities revealed on Saturday...
"The report, entitled 'A Demographic Evaluation of the Voter Rolls,' indicates that 1.47 percent of those listed on the official list of people eligible to vote in federal elections are actually dead...
"The states where this problem is greatest are Guerrero (3.42 percent), Durango (2.72 percent), Chihuahua (2.67 percent) and Nayarit (2.04 percent). Chihuahua and Durango will be staging state-wide elections on July 1.
"The states where officials are most diligent in updating the voter rolls are Quintana Roo (0.70 percent) and San Luis Potosà (0.76 percent)...
"The report... also revealed that the problem is slightly more common in rural as compared to urban areas.
"An estimated 1.7 percent of the names on voting rolls in rural areas correspond to someone who is deceased, while this number is at 1.4 percent in urban areas.
"A complementary report shows that in the past 12 months, nearly 1.4 million new voters have been registered."
posted by Ken Wedding @ 9:54 AM
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