Pennsylvania agrees to remove dead people from its voter rolls

By Fred Lucas | The Daily Signal

Pennsylvania, one of the top battlegrounds of the 2020 election, has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls before the general elections this year.

The agreement was reached last week, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election-integrity watchdog group that first identified the names of 21,000 dead people who were still registered to vote a month before the 2020 election.

The organization provided Pennsylvania state officials with the names of 21,000 dead registrants who were not removed from the voting rolls after their deaths.

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In 2018, a report showed 127 dead people on the voter rolls were recorded as having voted in Pennsylvania. That’s 50 fewer than the 177 dead Pennsylvanians credited with voting in the 2016 election.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, said Pennsylvania failed to update voter registration records—violating the federal “motor voter” law. Pennsylvania law requires election officials to reject ballots cast by individuals no longer alive.

“This marks an important victory for the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania,” Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams said. “The commonwealth’s failure to remove deceased registrants created a vast opportunity for voter fraud and abuse. It is important to not have dead voters active on the rolls for five, 10, or even 20 years. This settlement fixes that.”

After a briefing between Pennsylvania state officials and the legal foundation, the state agreed to compare the state’s death data used by the foundation to compile its list with the state’s voter registration database, according to the legal group.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office will provide the names of the individuals to county government officials and instruct the local officials to cancel the registrations.

To show compliance with the agreement, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office will provide progress reports on the number of dead names removed from the voter registration records to the Public Interest Legal Foundation on May 30, Aug. 31, and Nov. 30.

Pennsylvania will have races for one state Supreme Court seat, special elections to fill state legislative seats, and municipal races in 2021, according to Ballotpedia.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to email or phone inquiries from The Daily Signal on Wednesday.

The Indianapolis-based legal foundation said that of the 21,000 deceased people still on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, 9,212 had been dead for at least five years, 1,990 had been deceased for at least 10 years, and 197 had been dead for at least 20 years.

In 2018, the report showed 127 dead people on the voter rolls were recorded as having voted in Pennsylvania. That’s 50 fewer than the 177 dead Pennsylvanians credited with voting in the 2016 election.

During the postelection litigation in 2020, President Donald Trump’s campaign and others accurately identified provable instances of votes being cast in the names of dead people who were still registered to vote. However, the Trump campaign inaccurately cited the names of several voters as dead who turned out to be still living.

Democratic challenger Joe Biden outpolled Trump by more than 80,000 votes in the state to capture Pennsylvania en route to winning the presidency.

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5 thoughts on “Pennsylvania agrees to remove dead people from its voter rolls

  1. MICHIGAN

    Attorney Matthew DePerno Releases Michigan Elections Forensics Report – 66,194 Unregistered Ballots Tallied in JUST 9 COUNTIES
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/huge-news-attorney-matthew-deperno-releases-michigan-elections-forensics-report-66194-unregistered-ballots-tallied-just-9-counties/

    66,194 ballots in nine Michigan counties were not on any database list in October 2020.

    Were these fake ballots stuffed into ballot boxes?
    Were they people who just showed up, from in-state or out-of-state, and voted?
    Were they people under 18 years of age?
    Were they illegal aliens, or non-citizens?

  2. NEW HAMPSHIRE; An Urgent Job for the New Hampshire Legislature
    STATE AND LOCAL ELECTION REFORMS TO REDUCE FRAUD ARE LONG OVERDUE
    https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/state-and-local-election-reforms-are-long-overdue

    NH has a perfect opportunity to immediately revise NH voting laws.
    Strictly regulate the circumstances and methods of COUNTING the votes.
    None of the counting machines should be programmable by insiders and outsiders
    None should be connectable to the internet.
    None should have an insertable electronic card
    Abolish most absentee voting.
    Do not allow out-of-state students to register and vote. They would not be “deprived”, because they can, and should, vote in their own state.

    NOTE: The Legislature of New Hampshire became Republican, because the “activist student vote” was absent. They likely also voted in their own states. After all, every vote counts!

    Example of MAJOR COUNTING AND BALLOT BOX STUFFING Fraud in New Hampshire

    NOTE: If such COUNTING AND BALLOT BOX STUFFING frauds go on in New Hampshire, they would not happen in Vermont?

    The hand recount of the Windham (Rockingham District 7) New Hampshire House 2020 race revealed Dominion election counting machines shorted all four Republicans by about 300 votes. Gee, how is this possible?

    This was no a trivial matter. The difference was 1,363 votes out of 10,006 vote cast, 13.63%

    A forensic audit will determine the huge discrepancy between the election day results and subsequent recount of Windham’s November 3, 2020, State Rep. race where a difference of 1,363 total votes from just 10,006 ballots was uncovered.
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/update-new-hampshire-house-passes-sb43-mandate-audit-windhams-disturbing-2020-election-results/

    The Reveal of the COUNTING Fraud

    This fraud was revealed, because Mr. St. Laurent, Democrat, who lost by 24 votes, challenged the count, and got a recount.

    Mr. Soti, Republican, his opponent, recovered the 297 votes falsely taken from him by sneaky Dem/Prog vote COUNTERS

    Mr. St. Laurent, his opponent, had to give back 99 votes FALSELY attributed to him by sneaky Dem/Prog vote COUNTERS
    As a result, instead of losing by 24 votes, Mr. St. Laurent ended up losing by 420 votes!!! Yikes!!

    St. Laurent must not be glad he asked for a recount, because the recount of the votes of the other 3 Republicans showed each of them had been screwed out of about 300 votes as well, thanks to sneaky Dem/Prog COUNTING shenanigans.

    The thinking of the Dem/Progs must have been: “Heh, this is a close race. Maybe we can flip it”.

    Dem/Progs vote COUNTERS were holding back votes so they would not be counted in a timely manner, or they fiddled with the vote counting machines. See URL

    BI-PARTISAN STAFFING OF COUNTING CENTERS AND BI-PARTISAN STAFFING OF COUNTING IS LONG OVERDUE
    https://granitegrok.com/mg_windham/2020/11/recount-in-windham-rock-dist-7-machine-shorted-every-republican-by-about-300-votes

  3. How dare they deny voting rights to dead people!
    On their behalf, since they have no voice, I am starting the DVR, Deceased Voters Rights movement.
    Please send a generous donation on behalf of those who have no voice, the Deceased Voters.
    Shocking that in this day and age, with increased rights for everybody and everything else, that Deceased Voters can be treated so shabbily!

    • I will join your group.. DVR.. Gordon.. At least Vermont SEC of State Condos allows dead people to vote even if they been dead for 16 yrs. and even people let people who don’t live in Vermont vote…

  4. Pennsylvania REMOVING DEAD PEOPLE from registered voter lists.

    CONDOS, please tell us why Vermont is not doing that?

    All Condos has to do is compare his lists against the Social Security data base.

    The state of Pennsylvania agreed to remove the names of deceased people from voter rolls, an election-integrity watchdog group announced after reaching a settlement with state officials.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/pennsylvania-forced-to-remove-21000-dead-people-off-its-voter-rolls-settlement_3767667.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=mb-2021-04-09&mktids=2c58d6bdff29a0e53461953674e0352a&est=xeCXibAf9nWpSlHcSuMnuxqN2YhHbtjuuz152GM%2Fs3yfUecyi4YaZd5pEcFkXQ0%3D

    The lawsuit, filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, in November 2020, alleged that some 21,000 registrants who had died were still on the state’s voter rolls at the time of the 2020 presidential election.

    Pennsylvania agreed to compare its voter-registration database with the Social Security Death Index, and then direct all county election commissions to remove the names of dead registrants.

    “This marks an important victory for the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania,” Public Interest Legal Foundation President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said in a statement in announcing the court’s decision.

    “The Commonwealth’s failure to remove deceased registrants created a VAST OPPORTUNITY FOR VOTER FRAUD AND VOTE COUNTING FRAUD. It is important to not have dead voters active on the rolls for 5, 10, or even 20 years. This settlement fixes that.”

    The lawsuit was filed after the Nov. 3 election and when then-candidate Joe Biden took a lead over President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania. Ultimately, the Pennsylvania Secretary of Commonwealth’s office certified the election.

    The foundation said it found that 9,212 of the 21,000 voters had been dead for more than FIVE years, and nearly 2,000 voters had been dead for more than TEN years.

    VERMONT HAS THE SAME SITUATION

    The settlement stipulates that the “Department of State shall transmit to each county commission the names of the individuals registered in each respective county identified as deceased as a result of the comparison undertaken” with the “death data set received” from Electronic Registration Information Center that was then “compared to the full voter registration database … for the purpose of identifying persons who are ineligible to vote by reason of the registrant’s death.”

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