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I may be 72," Maria Arredondo from Michigan told us when we called her. "But I'm alive and breathing. My mind is working fine and I'm healthy."
Maria said she had voted for Joe Biden and was surprised to hear that her name had appeared on a list of supposedly dead voters in the state.
We spoke to other people in similar situations to that of Maria in Michigan and found similar stories.
To test the list, we picked 30 names at random. To this we added the oldest person on the list.
Of this list of 31 names, we managed to speak directly to 11 people (or to a family member, neighbour or care home worker) to confirm they were still alive.
For 17 others, there was no public record of their death, and we found clear evidence that they were alive after the alleged date of death on the list of 10,000. A clear pattern emerged - the wrong records had been joined together to create a false match.
Finally, we found that three people on the list were indeed dead. We examine these cases later.
When we looked for another centenarian, who according to the list had died in 1977, we found that she had still been alive when her postal ballot was returned in September. However, a neighbour told us the woman had died just a few weeks ago. We also found a matching obituary from October to confirm this.
Two other men on our list of 31 died some time ago, yet votes had been cast in their names - with the correct postcodes and years of birth - according to the voting database.
We found that for both men, there were sons with the same name currently registered at the same address as their deceased fathers.
In both cases, a ballot was sent in for the dead fathers.
Local election officials told us that one of the votes had been counted but there was no record of the son having voted.
In the other, it was the son who actually voted, but it had been recorded as the father's due to a clerical error.
US Election 2020: The 'dead voters' in Michigan who are still alive
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 10 2020, @11:24PM (4 children)
And I started calling Joe a racist when he stated that poor kids were just as smart as white kids.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 10 2020, @11:30PM (3 children)
A statement that isn't racist taken at face value and also isn't racist with whatever substitution words you want us to put in his mouth.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 10 2020, @11:41PM (2 children)
Yeah, well, at face value, the statement IS racist. Joe thinks all white kids are really really smart.
And, don't forget that if you don't vote for me, you ain't black. Arrogant hair sniffer.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @12:04AM
I started calling Runaway a racist when he was one. That is, forever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 12 2020, @03:00PM
You forgot another claim that exists in such a statement: no white kid is poor.