Posted on 10/27/2019 10:51:55 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
FBI and local police are investigating how at least 19 dead Virginians were recently re-registered to vote.
One case came to light after relatives of a deceased man received a note congratulating him for registering, Attorney Marsha Garst said Thursday.
"His family members were very distraught," said Garst.
A clerk recognized the name of Richard Allen Claybrook Sr., who died in 2014 at age 87, because his son is a well-known local judge. She happened to recall that the judge's father had died.
"He was a retired Fairfax County elementary school principal and had fought in World War II," said his son, retired Harrisonburg General District Court Judge Richard Allen Claybrook Jr. "So our family is very disgusted that they would pick his name, because he was such a law-abiding citizen devoted to public service."
All of the forms had been submitted by a private group that was working to register voters on the campus of James Madison University, according to the Harrisonburg registrar's office. The group was not identified. No charges have been filed.
Republicans in the state House of Delegates, who in recent years have supported tighter voter ID laws, held a conference call with reporters to call attention to the investigation.
House Minority Leader David J. Toscano (D-Charlottesville) said the case was not proof of voter fraud because no one had actually managed to cast a vote in the names of the dead.
"First of all, there was no voter fraud they caught him," Toscano said. "Nobody cast a vote. There's still no evidence of that going on in the state. But there is evidence every time you turn around that the Republicans are trying to make it more difficult for citizens to vote in elections."
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“They don’t have a computer matching names of
ineligible people..such as nor living..prisoner.”
And it would be so easy to flag those names by computer. I’ve been saying this for years.
Just require the coroners or prisons to notify the registrar.
As well as indexing by addresses. Dozens or hundreds of registrations or mail in votes from same address indicates a vote fraud factory.
Did you know that when the IRS knows others are using your SS#, they’re not required to do anything about it?
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