ArtChick checks voter registrations
Paul D’Ambrosio and Susanne Cervenka , Asbury Park Press9:35 a.m. EDT October 19, 2016
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Thousands of the dead remain on New Jersey’s active voting rolls with a handful of votes cast in their names over the years, an Asbury Park Press investigation found, but all were likely due to clerical errors rather than fraud.
No election outcomes were changed, even in local races, the Press’ review of votes over the last decade in five of the larger counties in the state.
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump claimed that the upcoming Nov. 8 election is “rigged” and that there would be “large-scale voting fraud.” He pointed to one study that stated the voting rolls across the country were populated with 1.8 million “dead voters.”
Yet the idea that the dead could change elections on Nov. 8 remains highly unlikely, considering the vast number of votes cast in each election. And Trump has offered no proof that any fraudulent votes have been cast in past elections by the dead. Even GOP party members have said that there is no basis for a claim that the election will be fixed at the ballot box.
To find New Jersey’s dead on the voting rolls, the Press matched the 2016 voting records with the Social Security Master Death Index – the most comprehensive list of the deceased in the nation. It limited the search to voters still considered “active” but who died in 2011 or before. Name, dates of birth and hometowns were used to further narrow the search so common names would not be confused across both databases.
Isn’t it interesting how the dead and illegal voters always vote Democrat…
The election board is not scanning the obits looking to purge the rolls. Now that I think of it, I did not notify them when my mother died. This does not mean that someone is voting in her name.
And when I moved to NJ from NYC I did not notify any election official in NY. Does anyone remember to do this?
Elvira looks pretty good there…