That is one of the recurring news items in the US that drives me batty. When each of my parents died, removing their names from the voter rolls was about the 596th item down on my priority list.
The government realizes this and regularly scrubs the voter rolls of dead people. Yet certain news organizations will report this as if it is a scandal. "Thousands of dead people were set to vote until their plan was foiled by the governors office". Tell me when dead people are voting in numbers, not that people die while still being on the rolls.
It didn't even occur to me as something to be done when I was dealing with my mother's estate. I would have thought it was automatic (SS# shows up in the death index) but even if it wasn't a registration with nobody voting it will eventually get scrubbed.
