Dead voters society

By now, you probably have seen the hard-hitting story in the Chicago Tribune (eat that, Richard Roeper!) regarding the many corpses registered to vote and other oddities of the 2004 election:

More than 181,000 dead people were listed on the rolls in the six swing states, despite efforts to clean up the country's voting system after the 2000 election.

Thousands more voters were registered to vote in two places, which could have allowed them to cast more than one ballot.

Further, more than 90,000 voters in Ohio cast ballots without a valid presidential choice. Either they decided not to choose a candidate, the machine failed to register their choice, or they mistakenly voted for more than one candidate.

And the FBI is investigating allegations that Republicans in Florida mounted a large-scale campaign to tamper with ballots.

Trouble is, only the final paragraph here truly favors our side. The "dead voters society" meme matches a Republican propaganda campaign that began well before November 2.

This is the time when we should expect the usual counterstrike.

Also note this sentence:

Voting complaints in Ohio have focused on the use of antiquated punch-card voting machines--the same type of machines that led to thousands of hanging chads in Florida four years ago.

Uh...no. Complaints in Ohio go way, way beyond that. Why is the Chicago Tribune trying to sell us on computerized voting when computerized voting is the problem?