Title: Fact check: Mailing ballots to dead people not leading to voter fraud
Headings: Fact check: Mailing ballots to dead people not leading to voter fraud, experts and studies say
Fact check: Mailing ballots to dead people not leading to voter fraud, experts and studies say
The claim: Dead people are receiving ballots and are still eligible to vote
Experts: No evidence to support claim
The role of signatures
Studies: Dead voters are possible, but rare
Our rating: Partly false
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Content: In Wisconsin's April 7 primary, 14,000 absentee ballots cast were rejected because they lacked witness signatures, NPR reported . Studies: Dead voters are possible, but rare
A 2016 study by researchers at Dartmouth focused on noncitizen populations, dead people, timing of results and voting technology. They found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election nor any striking abnormalities in states flagged as potentially problematic. In a report called "The politics of voter fraud" by Minnite, a case was analyzed in which claims of voter fraud appeared after a story headlined “In Mich. Even Dead Vote, From Holland to Detroit, votes were cast by 132 dead people.” A full reading of the article revealed that the voting irregularities were not attributed to voter fraud, but rather, clerical errors. Similarly, in 2005, the New Jersey Republican State Committee claimed it found evidence of 4,755 dead people having voted. But an analysis of the data the RSC provided to the state found that the errors were rooted in methodological problems in the RSC’s list matching techniques, such as excluding middle initials and suffixes, which resulted in duplicate records and mismatches of people presumed to be the same person. In a 2012 assessment in the Social Science Quarterly of Georgia’s election in 2006, researchers found “no evidence that election fraud was committed under the auspices of deceased registrants.” In a 2007 report, “ The Truth About Voter Fraud ” from the liberal Brennan Center of Justice, Justin Levitt wrote, “Voting from the grave offers salacious headlines, and investigators often attempt to match death records to voter rolls in an attempt to produce purported evidence of fraud.”