THAT’S the title of one of the more popular TV series of the past few seasons, available here only if you subscribe to the right premium channel. It deals with a post-apocalyptic America where a virus infects humans and turns them into ravenous zombies. The undead theme pops up most everywhere you look in the entertainment field these days – seems like folks are thrilled, chilled and entertained by the supernatural in books and movies and TV series that mostly began way back in 1897 with Bram Stoker’s “Count Dracula.” Mary Shelley’s 1918 novel about Frankenstein was a big hit, as was the 1968 George Romero cult thriller “Night of the Living Dead.” Movie audiences pay big bucks to view not only the bad guys like vampires and zombies, but superheroes like Captain America, The Hulk, Watchmen and The Avengers. It’s all supernatural-oriented escape fiction. I like it.

All of the above was just a teaser: here’s what this column is really about. More than 58,000 dead voters were recently found in Florida. Finally putting them to eternal rest was made possible through Social Security list screening, something not previously employed there.

Voter registration rolls in several other states, including Mississippi, Oregon and Massachusetts, also list thousands of the deceased – undoubtedly all poised to participate in the November elections. In some states the fraud is made easier through vote-by-mail schemes that open up great opportunities for the dead to cast their ballots. Missouri has more registered voters than persons over 18 with a pulse.

Unfortunately, Attorney General Holder’s U.S. Department of Justice apparently has no intention of encouraging purging of voter rolls to remove the (ahem!) deadwood. Much of the voter-list integrity problem had its genesis in the 1993 “Motor Voter” law that required states to offer voter registration materials whenever someone contacts a variety of state offices including welfare offices, social service agencies and motor vehicle departments. It also required states to make sure that dead people, felons and non-residents were purged from the rolls.

In November 2009, a politically appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General called a meeting of the entire DOJ Voting Rights Section to reveal her official “Motor Voter” list integrity enforcement policy. The message? As DOJ policy, she has no interest in enforcing this provision of the law as it has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and she’s just not going to do it. The Holder DOJ has so far not filed a single “Motor Voter”fraud case.

Closer to home, there’s been much ado lately about integrity – or lack of it – in the Guam voting process. Some would like to do a Simon-Says back step and invalidate results of the 2010 general election. That seems a bit extreme. There’s also a complaint that some voters were illegally and unfairly purged from the rolls. That’s serious if true, and it alone should be sufficient justification to launch a comprehensive review of the Guam voter rolls to make sure that eligible voters, and only those, are registered.

Florida, to its credit, seems to have successfully purged its voter registrations to list only those still actually breathing. We may have a zombie voter registration problem here as well. Some who walk among us appear to be dead from the neck up.