Claims of dead people voting are frequently based on false assumptions regarding people with the same or similar names who are very much alive. One funny example of that was Trump's ace election fraud investigator Kris Kobach claiming that a dead person voted: Kobach at a press conference said that "Albert K. Brewer" was an example of one such deceased individual who had voted in a recent primary. When The Wichita Eagle followed up on Kobach's assertion, it discovered Brewer, 78 years old, was still alive, although his father, who was born in 1904 and had a different middle initial, had died in 1996. Albert K Brewer a registered Republican like Kobach, was more than a little stunned to be told he’d moved on to the great hereafter. No evidence emerged that anyone had ghost voted in Kansas that year.
Here's one from today...
Michigan Officials Debunk Dead Voter Claims in Trump Campaign’s Latest Lawsuithttps://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/michigan-officials-debunk-dead-voter-claim-in-trump-campaigns-latest-lawsuitPresident Donald Trump continues to wage lawsuits aimed that are supposedly aimed at proving widespread voter fraud and overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. To put it mildly, it’s not going well for the president.
In a federal lawsuit filed in the Western District of Michigan on Wednesday, Trump alleged massive voting irregularities—ranging from votes of the dead being counted to count-watchers being prevented from witnessing the count. Although Team Trump may be seeing dead people, elections authorities sure aren’t.
In the complaint, a Michigan voter, Anita Chase, submitted an affidavit stating that she reviewed voting records and discovered that her deceased son voted in the 2020 election. Based on information provided by Michigan, however, that allegation is demonstrably false.
Tracy Wimmer, a spokesperson for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s (D) office, told Bridge Michigan that Mark D. Chase, who was born in 1978 and who died in 2016, was listed as living at the same address as his mother. That Mark D. Chase last voted in 2014, and his voter registration was cancelled in 2016 (which matches an online obituary date). Two other individuals also named Mark D. Chase are listed in Michigan’s Qualified Voter File. Both were born in different years than Anita Chase’s son, and each lives in a different county. The logical inference, therefore, is that the Mark D. Chase who voted was not Anita Chase’s son, but rather, another Michigan voter with the same name.
Mr. Chase isn’t the only Michigan voter whose life or death has been called into question by Trump campaign lawyers. William Bradley of Wayne county, for example, was named online as “dead” and “trying to steal the election.” In actuality, Mr. Bradley is alive and well in Detroit; his father, however, with whom he shared a name, died in 1984.
Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt also looked into allegations that dead voters had “cast” votes in the election.
Schmidt, the Republican co-chair overseeing Philadelphia elections, told CNN that he has “seen most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all and seen them spread.” He continued to explain that a report alleging that “a long list of people” said that there “were dead voters who voted in Philadelphia.” When Philadelphia officials looked up the voting histories, though, “Not a single one of them voted in Philadelphia after they died.”
Schmidt said it was alarming how hungry people are to consume lies.
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