Cheerful Happiness is a real voter, but . . .

It's true: There is a real person named Cheerful Happiness. She is 100 years old and a regular voter.

Confirmation of her existence may signal a new day at the Philadelphia Board of Elections.

When Joe DeFelice, a local official with the state GOP, found Happiness on a list of registered voters, he wondered whether she existed.

Investigators for the city Board of Elections, seeking Happiness, discovered from workers at her assisted-living facility that she does exist and likes to vote.

But DeFelice's questions about two other voters - Joseph Cheeseboro and Joseph Cheeseborough - led the board to list both men as inactive, which means they must present identification to vote.

DeFelice thought the similarity of the names odd. Both men listed the same birth date. The Board of Elections found that Cheeseboro's South Philadelphia address didn't exist.

Cheeseborough's "home" turned out to be a 7-Eleven store in the 2300 block of South Broad. Perhaps not by chance, Cheeseborough listed his apartment as No. 711.

No one returned a call to the number on the Cheeseborough registration, and Cheeseboro did not provide one.

DeFelice said he was pleased that the Board of Elections, now headed by two new city commissioners - Stephanie Singer and Al Schmidt - and one incumbent, Anthony Clark, took his questions seriously. That did not happen under previous leadership, he said.

"I'm all for people voting," DeFelice said, "but I think they should do it only once." - Miriam Hill

What about Robin Hood Dell East?

Speaking of names, where did Robin Hood Dell East get its name? After all, we don't live in Sherwood Forest.

City Council Majority Leader Curtis Jones Jr. thinks the venue, where Judy Garland first performed publicly, deserves a new moniker. On Thursday, Jones introduced a bill to rename it for civil rights leader and philanthropist Georgie Woods.

"Georgie Woods was a progressive, forward-thinking entertainer who engaged the community on the issues, and it would be an honor to have the grand theater named after him," said Jones, who introduced similar legislation in 2008 that didn't pass.

Woods, who as a DJ went by the sobriquet "The Guy With the Goods," died in 2005. He was also known for luring top acts such as Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson Five to the Uptown Theater. With Cecil B. Moore, Woods fought to end segregation at Girard College.

Maybe renaming the Dell is a good idea. Turns out it isn't even named after the guy who robbed the rich to give to the poor. Built in 1930, it was named after the 18th-century Robin Hood Tavern, which was built on land off Ridge Avenue owned by the Hood family, close to where the theater is today. "Dell" comes from the setting between grassy knolls, and the "East" part of the title was added when the Robin Hood Dell West Theater (now the Mann Center) was built in 1976. - Miriam Hill