I share co-blogger Jonathan Adler’s outrage over the fact that dead people may be voting in this year’s election. But if the government is willing to give the dead agricultural subsidies for not farming, perhaps it should let them vote too. After all, they clearly have a stake in government policy. And they tend to be underrepresented among those eligible to run for office, make campaign contributions, and otherwise influence the political process. We have to put an end to such bias against the dead (to say nothing of the undead, who are victims of even more deep-seated prejudice). We can’t achieve real change we can believe in so long as the vast majority of all the people who have ever lived are arbitrarily excluded from the franchise.