And things have improved in the last few years since that Pew study . But there is - again , there 's no good evidence that dead people are voting in appreciable numbers . Every once in a while you hear a story , so you hear a story about a husband passes away life.die.nonviolentdeath , gets an absentee ballot in the mail , widow votes for husband . You do see some of those stories . But we - again , we do n't have situations of large numbers of people impersonating dead voters and voting .