Dead Cat Invited to Register to Vote in Coming Election

Woman’s dead cat was asked to register to vote… Voter fraud, or poor mailing list maintenance?

By Brittni Kates

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Phyllis Metcalfe’s cat, PiWacket (Pi for short), was sent an application to register to vote earlier this month. To make things that much more strange, Pi passed away last year. It might be easy to quickly brush this to voter fraud but it doesn’t look like that was the intent. It’s not the first time the organization’s mailing list was off.

Pi’s owner took this letter more as a joke. Phyllis states, “Pi, like most Siamese cats, was bright and opinionated. However, considering that this year’s presidential candidates disprove Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, I doubt Pi would have been interested in voting even if he was alive.” Metcalfe assumes this is just simply her vet’s mailing list being sold to commercial list brokers and the pet’s name getting mixed up with the owner’s name. It isn’t the first time The Voter Participation Center, who normally targets unregistered minorities, got it wrong. They also sent a registration applicant to a dead dog in 2012. They are also known for sending the letter to deceased people, children and non-citizens.

Let’s look carefully at this before we assume this is a voter fraud scam. Richard Hasen, specialist of election law from UC Irvine, says it’s highly unlikely someone would want to illegally register to vote due to a piece of mail. He mentions the rewards do not justify the risk. It’s a felony charge, if you get caught, just for one more vote for your candidate. If voter fraud were their intent, they would have been investigated and shut down a long time ago. It seems to be just a poorly maintained mailing list.

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