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Let’s Change their Name from “The Palmetto State” to “The Zombie State”

In the middle of a court fight to determine whether South Carolina’s Voter Identification law is Constitutional (so far: no), Kevin Shwedo, director of the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles, announced that “more than 900” people listed in state records as deceased have “recently voted” in elections. “If you have voted after you are dead,” Shwedo told reporters, “there is a good, strong possibility that you did something illegal.” (RC/AP) ...On the other hand, surely the dead would do a much better job of electing honest representatives.
Original Publication Date: 15 January 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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