• yesman@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Yea. Not only that, when you hear about “dead people voting”, this is often the explanation.

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      11 hours ago

      The other big chunk is people who have the same or a similar name. Like “It says here David Jones died five years ago, but David Jones voted today. Suspicious?” “Dude, I’m David Jones Jr. The David Jones who died was my dad, David Jones Sr. Dick.” Or whatever.

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      12 hours ago

      Also the thousands of people who die on election day, a non-zero number of which voted earlier that day.