Houston has over 4000 dead people on the voter registration rolls

The March 2008 Primary was no exception. Voting records show Alexis’ mom, Gloria Guidry, cast her ballot in person near her South Houston home.

“It was just very shocking, a little unsettling,” said Alexis Guidry.It’s unsettling because Gloria Guidry died of cancer 10 months before the March Primary.”She’d be very upset,” Guidry said when asked what her mom would think.

Trent Seibert, of Texas Watchdog, says you should be too.”This is really disquieting. It’s concerning. It’s worrisome,” said Seibert.He heads up the non-partisan news group on the web.Texas Watchdog compared Harris County’s voter registration roll with the Social Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches — registered voters that, it appears, are already dead.Some of them, like Henderson Hill’s late wife Linda, voted postmortem.”I would like to know who did it, myself,” Hill told Davis.We don’t know who used Linda Hill’s or Gloria Guidry’s IDs to vote, but we do know if their names had been purged from voter rolls after they died, using their IDs wouldn’t have worked.

This shouldn’t be a surprise. Dead people voting has been a tradition in Texas since before the days that LBJ got a landslide of votes from the graveyard in his Senatorial election.