Posted on 04/09/2021 7:34:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The people have won another small but important battle in the fight for election integrity.
The state of Pennsylvania has agreed to purge 21,000 dead voters from their registration rolls before the next general elections. The concession comes as the result of a lawsuit launched by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The suit alleged Pennsylvania had failed to comply with its own “motor voter” laws that require the state to discard ballots from deceased voters.
It seems unthinkable that it would take a lawsuit for a state to stop accepting votes from dead voters, but here we are.
According to the Daily Signal, the PILF provided the names of the 21,000 dead voters as they demanded the state be held to account for their own voting laws.
The foundation alleged that in an October analysis it found at least 21,000 apparently deceased citizens on the state’s voter rolls, according to the complaint.
“This case is about ensuring that those deceased registrants are not receiving ballots,” said J. Christian Adams, Public Interest Legal Foundation president and general counsel, according to the press release. “This case isn’t complicated. For nearly a year, we’ve been offering specific data on deceased registrants to Pennsylvania officials for proper handling ahead of what was expected to be a tight outcome on Election Day.”
“When you push mail voting, your voter list maintenance mistakes made years ago will come back to haunt in the form of unnecessary recipients and nagging questions about unreturned or outstanding ballots,” he continued.
The lawsuit further alleged that 92% of the apparently deceased individuals identified have been dead since October 2019, according to the press release. More than 200 of the individuals identified voted in 2016 and 2018, after federally listed dates of death, the lawsuit alleged.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. PILF’s president says the victory marks an important turning point in the fight for election integrity.
“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.”
Over 9,000 of the names provided had been dead for at least five years or more.
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.
Pennsylvania has a number of general elections slated for 2021, including one for the state Supreme Court and several important municipal elections.
Here’s hoping this is the beginning of a trend. Biden is signaling he is ready to start packing the courts. Free and fair elections will be an important part of pushing back the draconian progressive left.
any accountability?
for the criminal that voted 20,000 times?
for the criminals the covered it up?
for the criminals that STOLE the election?
for the criminals in the DO”J” that burnt the removed
ballots, which the WOMEN CITIZENS
reported to the uncaring cold indifferent police?
I merely asked them how much voter fraud they thought was acceptable. One idiot was actually "offended" by my question.
It was a pretty straight forward question I thought.
Oh brother
There was no accountability for the people who attempted a coup of a sitting president. There was no accountability for the people who stole an election.
We are living in an era without merit and without accountability.
Interesting times.
Excellent!
That would have been my first question. Has anyone been arrested yet?
What about the purging of those who moved out of state? Did they get to vote in multiple states?
“had a debate with the libs at the office on the issue of voter fraud. they were insisting voter fraud was rare if at all.”
The argument they gave you is a classic bait and switch. Tell them that the words “rare,” and “Significant,” are not synonyms. Rare means maybe only 1 in a 10,000 people conducted voter fraud, significant means that that 1 person voted 10,000 times.
Liberals are the worst at misusing language.
Will it return us to the MAGA years or will it release the Kraken? I love Kraken sushi.
had a debate with the libs at the office on the issue of voter fraud. they were insisting voter fraud was rare if at all.
Let them explain what it takes to prosecute someone for illegal voting in an anonymous election. In the past it has basically required a confession in a specific manner that they could not weasel out of.
Also, rare in the past, does not have any bearing on 2020. If I murder the guy next door, I can’t plead innocence by saying “I’d never done it before so I didn’t do it this time!”
It’s a start. But these need to be adjudicated retroactively.
How many of these deceased cast ballots in 2020?
sorry....it’s still not “widespread”....doesn’t count
They haven’t deleted anyone yet.
Who will bet anyone actually forces them to delete these dead voters off the rolls?
Much less show proof of compliance to the court order?
that’s alright, never fear they’ll be back by 2024...
And Plugs “carried” PA by how many votes?
This is disturbing. It disenfranchises dead voters. LOL
Pathetic.
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