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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) by cmdrklarg on Friday December 11 2020, @04:21PM (5 children)
Rural populations already have disproportionate power in the federal government: The US Senate.
California has 2 Senators and a population of about 40,000,000, so each represents about 20,000,000 people.
Wyoming has 2 Senators and a population of about 580,000, so each represents about 290,000 people. That's an almost 70x difference.
This also directly influences the Electoral College, as each state gets EC votes equal to the number of Reps and Senators. CA gets 55 EC votes, or one vote for every 727,273 voters. WY get 3 votes, or one for every 193,333 voters. WY state voter's power in the EC equals that of 3.75 CA state voter's.
So what exactly is so special about a WY voter that makes their vote more important than that of a CA voter? Why do you insist upon CA voters continuing to be disenfranchised?
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @06:22PM (1 child)
The solution is clear. 99% of California residents must be exterminated, to bring the population down to acceptable levels of representation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @08:32PM
Alternatively, we could divide each Wyoming resident into 3.75 pieces, so the representation would be equal. With Wyomingites, it would be hard to tell any difference.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 11 2020, @08:02PM (2 children)
How many votes per acre is that?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2020, @10:51PM
California:
17495826 votes / 99.7 million acres = 0.1755 votes per acre
Wyoming:
278503 votes / 62.14 million acres = 0.004482 votes per acre
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 13 2020, @08:33PM
Unless you meant EC votes;
California:
55 votes / 99.7 million acres = 5.51654964895e-07 votes per acre (1,812,727 acres per vote)
Wyoming:
3 votes / 62.14 million acres = 4.82780817509e-08 votes per acre (20,713,333 acres per vote)