Finally Found a Dead Person Voting

Officials finally found a case of voter fraud, where a dead person actually voted. According to Business Insider, Bruce Bartman, a 70-year-old resident of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, registered his dead mother as a voter and voted on her behalf for Donald Trump. Prosecutors say this is the only confirmed voter fraud they found in their county, after looking into hundreds of leads. The penalty, if convicted, could be as much as 19 years in prison.

Voter fraud is found to be rare in the US. A database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation identified 193 criminal convictions, civil penalties, diversions, or other official findings for fraudulent use of mail ballots between 2000 and 2020, a time period during which approximately 250 million mail ballots were cast.

Let’s remember this when Republicans claim having to rein in massive voter fraud when they try to make it harder for people, particularly the poor and minorities, to vote.

 

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