The Dallas Morning News has a report that looks at our October investigation into the listing of people on the Dallas County voter rolls who may be deceased.

We reviewed four years of data and found thousands of voters whose names and birthdates matched those of folks in a federal list of deceased Texans. We also found some folks who were recorded by the county as voting after their deaths.

There's not much new in the story. The reporter mostly follows the trail that we've already reported. However, we have unearthed some new information in relation to our investigation into the Harris County voter rolls. (Go to the bottom of this post for a preview of what's coming.)

The Morning News examined the pollbooks concerning those voters and concluded that in many cases, clerical errors were to blame for dead people recorded as voting. If you're a faithful reader of our blog -- we hope you are -- you saw a similar follow-up story on our Web site three weeks ago.


In our original investigation, we pointed out the possibility of clerical errors:

Danny Clayton, supervisor of voter registration for the county, has been with the office 18 years and said he’s only seen a handful of similar cases. “It’s only happened four or five times,” Clayton said. “And in every instance, it was a clerical error on our end. It was nobody that tried to vote fraudulently."

Dallas County elections officials have pledged to review the thousands of voters who were the focus of our report.

If you're interested in voter issues, check back soon for a follow-up on Harris County.



A sneak peek: In the case of Houston voter Gloria Guidry (at left), pollbooks confirm that someone signed in and voted in her name almost a year after her death.

Here's a Texas Watchdog interview with Guidry's daughter, and here's a KRPC Local2 Investigates interview.

The pollbook in question: