According to this article, Texas has twelve counties where there are more registered voters than the voting age population.
This is hardly news, as certain areas of Texas – especially in deep South Texas – have had a hallowed tradition of allowing dead people to vote. And it’s not a practice that’s limited to Texas. According to the article, several others states display the same phenomenon:
- Alabama – 7 counties
- Indiana – 12 counties
- Kentucky – 12 counties
- Mississippi – 17 counties
- South Dakota – 17 counties
However, this is yet another case where statistics are a bit misleading. If you compare the total number of counties in each state with those where the voter rolls apparently contain a lot of dead people (and other non-eligible people such as felons or illegal immigrants), Texas looks a lot better. Here’s the same list showing the percentage of counties that fall into this category:
- Alabama – 10%
- Indiana – 13%
- Kentucky – 10%
- Mississippi – 21%
- South Dakota – 27%
- Texas – 5%
So, we see that Texas is, in fact, something of an underachiever in this area.
Note: Here’s the original report by the Washington Times