Pennsylvania Auditors Warned of Dead People, Duplicates on State Voter Rolls
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JOHN BINDER
10 Nov 2020
Pennsylvania auditors alerted officials of possible dead people and duplicate registrations on the state’s voter rolls last year, but the warnings went unacknowledged.
In December 2019, Pennsylvania’s Department of Auditor General (DAG) released the findings of an audit report conducted January 1, 2016 to April 16, 2019 but was limited in scope because of “a lack of cooperation and a failure to provide the necessary information by” Pennyslvania’s Department of State, the Department of Transportation, and four county election offices. . . .
. . . Even without cooperation from state agencies and multiple county election offices, the report “identified tens of thousands of potential duplicate and inaccurate voter records, as well as voter records for nearly three thousand potentially deceased voters that had not been removed” from Pennsylvania voter rolls.
Specifically, the report analyzed the voter registration records for the state’s more than 8.5 million voters and alerted the Pennsylvania Secretary of State of “potential inaccuracies,” including:
- 24,408 cases where a driver’s license number was listed in more than one voter record
- 13,913 potential duplicate voter registrations
- 6,876 potential date of birth inaccuracies
- 2,230 potential date of birth and/or registration date inaccuracies
- 2,991 records of potentially deceased voters
On the issue of dead people on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, at least 2,094 of the 2,991 identified by auditors had their death notices sent to the Secretary of State’s office so the voter registration would be canceled . . .
. . . The full report can be read here . . .