As many as 2,812 dead people may have voted in Minnesota. Is it human error or fraud?
A conservative advocacy group says the problem is that the Minnesota Secretary of State neglects to purge the names of dead people from the voter rolls.
For example, Julie Webster died in 2006, but voter records show that she voted two years later on Nov. 4, 2008. Her husband Henry Webster said, “I’m here to tell you, there’s no malice on my end. (Election officials and I) had a two-way conversation that my wife had died and that she won’t be coming in. So I wrote deceased.”
An election worker, it appears, tallied the late Mrs. Webster as a voter who showed up and cast a ballot.
Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann says the problem should be blamed on mistakes, not fraud.
“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people,” he insisted. “You’re going to have human error. We’re doing our best to correct that human error.”
We vote for fraud. In fact, we voted for it five times.
Source: KSTP.com
