Deceased cat gets voter registration application in mail

[TexasTowelie]

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ATLANTA (AP) — In a presidential election year, there's always a push to get people registered to vote.

For one Atlanta family, that push got a little interesting.

Ron Tims said he checked his mail Wednesday and found a voter registration application addressed to Cody Tims — his cat, who died 12 years ago.

“A great cat, indoor and outdoor, loved his family, loved his neighborhood. He was 18 and a half when he passed away,” Carol Tims told WAGA-TV.

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If you’re wondering how Cody would have voted if he could go to the polls. His owner said he was a DemoCAT.

The complete article is at https://www.chron.com/news/article/Deceased-cat-gets-voter-registration-application-15401593.php .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Cat or human, why would someone who died

twelve fucking years ago get a voter registration application? This is exactly why voter rolls need to be purged periodically.

[Rebl2]

6. Exactly!

[pansypoo53219]

2. so did my cat. twice. 1st when she would have been 18. PANSY got gevalia coffee.

and she had/has the best junk mail! CAVIAR! i should have kept that 1. river cruises. she still gets calls. my other cat had archaeology magazine + CD clubs + got hardly any junk mail. everybody want's pansy's money.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Is this a story that is aimed to scare people about mail in ballots?

This is probably not quite the innocent cute story some may think.

[Alliepoo]

4. We used to get stuff for our dog.

One of the kids put her name on a contest card at a mall and stuck it in the box. After that, Holly got mail!! And she didn’t win the grand prize either.

[Archetypist]

5. I smell BS

If another paper verifies this maybe there is something to it. But GA has been purging voter rolls very aggressively as a firm of vote suppression and this feels tome like a story planted to try and bolster support for it.