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Posted by Glenn Kessler at 06:00 AM ET, 07/25/2013
... This was a rather shocking claim, which stemmed from allegations made by Kevin Shwedo, executive director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles. (Well over 900 individuals appear to have voted after they died.) One state lawmaker famously declared: We must have certainty in South Carolina that zombies arent voting ...
The allegations emerged as South Carolina officials sought to impose a new voter photo ID law during the 2012 election; a federal court delayed it from taking effect until 2013 ...
The report confirms what the State Election Commission had found after preliminarily examining some of the allegations: The so-called votes by dead people were the result of clerical errors or mistaken identities ...
In one case, someone cast an absentee ballot before dying; their vote still counts under the law. In two other cases, people requested an absentee ballot, but died before returning it, so no harm was done. In other cases, the wrong voter was marked as having cast a vote, and then the marks were not completely erased. There were several other types of clerical errors, too numerous to mention. In the end, just five votes remained unresolved after extensive investigation ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-case-of-zombie-voters-in-south-carolina/2013/07/24/86de3c64-f403-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_blog.html
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)the job of examining votes because Joe "You Lie" Wilson's son, well, lied.
There were 953 "zombie" votes over a 7 year period They investigated 207 votes cast in the 2010 election.
99 votes were cast where the deceased father had the same name as the living son.
down to 108 "zombie" votes
32 cases of scanner error. This is due to the scan of the voter rolls erroneously says a voter, voted when they in fact didn't.
down to 76 "zombie" votes
3 cases of absentee votes. 1 the voter died after he returned their ballot and 2 where the voter died and the ballot was never returned.
down to 73 "zombie" votes
56 cases of bad data matching. SS numbers of deceased people were erroneously matched to living voters who cast their votes. All other info matched the living voter.
Down to 17 "zombie" votes
6 cases were the wrong voter was marked on the election rolls and the erase mark was not complete, so the scanner picked it up.
down to 11 "zombie" votes
5 cases where the wrong name was marked for absentee voting
down to 6 "zombie" votes
these could not be determined because the voter rolls could not be located for the precinct in which the vote was cast. Given the errors stated above I whole heartedly believe that these 6 votes of a total of 1,365,480 votes cast can also be attributed to a clerical error.
So how much did this investigation cost the state based on a LIE by Joe "You Lie" Wilson's son?
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)She lies every time she opens her mouth.