Ballots continued arriving at the homes of deceased Californians ahead of this year's primary election, despite repeated efforts by relatives to notify election officials and provide proof of death, according to interviews and records reviewed by The New York Post.

Los Angeles resident Steve Brown said he followed all instructions from election officials after his wife, Lisa Brown, died in 2021, including submitting paperwork and a copy of her death certificate. Yet election mail continues to arrive in her name.

"It's a lot of work," he told the outlet. "You do what they tell you to do, and the ballot still comes."

A document review by the Post found Lisa Brown's voter registration remained active in the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk database.

The Trump administration and many Republicans continue to argue that inaccurate voter rolls and widespread mail voting create opportunities for fraud and undermine confidence in elections.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that mail-in ballots have contributed to election irregularities for years.

Questions surrounding mail voting have also surfaced in local races, including Los Angeles mayoral elections.

A 2025 review of 2 million active California voter registrations conducted by the Public Interest Legal Foundation identified 94,516 registrants flagged as deceased through comparisons with the Social Security Death Index and obituary records.

The review also found 57,725 potential duplicate registrations across state lines, 3,104 same-address duplicate registrations and 7,677 voter records containing placeholder or fictitious birth dates.

"If they can't get something this basic right, it makes you wonder what else isn't right," SteveBrown said. "It hurts."

Other Californians reported similar experiences.

Pia Altavilla said she continues receiving election ballots for both her late husband, who died two years ago, and her father, Francesco Altavilla, who died five years ago.

"It's disappointing that voter rolls are not cross-checked with Social Security," Pia Altavilla said.

"From a widow standpoint, revisiting the ballot is triggering," she added. "When you see something like this, it brings up emotions."

Alex Reynolds said a ballot arrived for her mother months after the family filed her death certificate following her death on July 24, 2025.

"It's concerning," Reynolds said. "I started looking into it right away. We filed everything we were supposed to. I don't have time to keep following up on this."

Reynolds said the ballot served as a painful reminder of her loss.

"It's heart-wrenching," she said. "I cry every day about my mom's stuff."

Nico Ruderman, who previously led the recall campaign against former Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin, said the issue raises broader concerns about voter-roll maintenance.

"There are parties who don't like narrowing down the voter roll," Ruderman said. "The bigger the voter roll, the harder it is to get a ballot initiative across."

Ruderman argued that voter registration databases should be updated automatically when death certificates are filed.

"Death certificates should go into a database and ultimately remove people from the voter rolls," he said.

After years of receiving election mail addressed to his late wife, Steve Brown said the experience has shaken his confidence in the system.

"You start questioning it," he said.