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WE’VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT DEAD VOTERS IN THE PAST

We’ve heard about this from LBJ’s first election, where some voter lists were reputed to be identical to names from the gravestones along the main road through the cemetery, to Richard Daley’s Chicago, where some said the difference in Kennedy’s victory over Nixon was made up of the names of the dead. But, one might hope that in this day and age of high tech and a serious emphasis on clean elections, it might be a thing of the past.

Well….....no, actually.

IN DETROIT,

After years of research, Grebner and his partner, Alan Fox, have found roughly 350,000 outdated records in Detroit’s voter rolls, including 20,000 names of deceased individuals and 50,000 names of people who have left Detroit. Grebner says another 30,000 entries in the system are duplicates: mainly, two spellings of the same name.
“That’s worse than the average in the state by a considerable margin,” he said. “And it allows for mismanaged elections and for the possibility of vote fraud because the records cannot be depended on. There are registrations for people that have died, for people that are living elsewhere, and that allows for situations where other people could vote with their names.”

But, you can relax.

Grebner says he’s never found evidence of organized fraud in Detroit.

That’s OK, then…....right? But if there are all these problems with the voter rolls, why is it that whenever a county or other government entity asks for voters to present picture ID when they come in to vote, someone takes it to court and gets it struck down? Doesn’t it make you wonder?

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