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This shows that dead people are registered to vote. It does NOT show that the names of dead people are used to vote.

Detecting such fraud is not hard. We know who voted. Cross-check to see how many are dead. Over the last decade there have been many studies to find such irregularities. For example, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation_(United_St...

> a 2012 study found no evidence that voter impersonation (in the form of people voting under the auspices of a dead voter) occurred in the 2006 Georgia general elections.[21]

and

> In 2012 NPR published figures related to the Pew study claiming that over 1.8 million dead people were registered to vote nationwide and over 3 million voters were registered in multiple states.[28] However, the PEW study to which the article referred had concluded that the "millions of out of date registration records due to people moving or dying" had "found no evidence that voter fraud resulted."[29]




It shows the time the ballots were received. Meaning they weren’t just registered, a ballot was cast




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