Happy Halloween!

The Zombie Rights movement continues to gain ground. They are already paying taxes, Voting, Converting to new religions, and getting married.

Now, they're contributing to political campaigns.

Presidential and congressional candidates and political parties have collected more than $1.3 million from at least 100 deceased donors since 1991, according to the Halloween-themed "From Coffins to Coffers" report by the Center for Public Integrity in Washington.

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In the 2004 election, posthumous donations totaled about $73,000.

Many recipients identified the donors' occupation as "deceased" on reports to the Federal Election Commission or said the contributions came from a person's estate. FEC spokesman George Smaragdis told the center that people can set up "testamentary bequests" to support political parties and specific candidates. They can also set aside money for federal political action committees. But, because of the new law, estates, like living individuals, have been limited to donations of $5,000 to a PAC per calendar year.