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Pennsylvania Department of State officials reached an agreement with an election-integrity group to remove dead people from voting lists in the state, according to The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF).
PILF first filed the lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of State on November 5, 2020, for “failing to reasonably maintain voter registration records under federal and state law,” according to a press release.
“[A]as of October 7, 2020, at least 9,212 registrants have been dead for at least five years, at least 1,990 registrants have been dead for at least ten years, and at least 197 registrants have been dead for at least twenty years … Pennsylvania still left the names of more than 21,000 dead individuals on the voter rolls less than a month before one of the most consequential general elections for federal officeholders in many years,” the press release read.
The people have won another small but important battle in the fight for election integrity.
The state of Pennsylvania has agreed to purge 21,000 dead voters from their registration rolls before the next general elections. The concession comes as the result of a lawsuit launched by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). The suit alleged Pennsylvania had failed to comply with its own “motor voter” laws that require the state to discard ballots from deceased voters.
It seems unthinkable that it would take a lawsuit for a state to stop accepting votes from dead voters, but here we are.
According to the Daily Signal, the PILF provided the names of the 21,000 dead voters as they demanded the state be held to account for their own voting laws.
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Pennsylvania Agrees to Exhume Dead From Its Voter Rolls
Pennsylvania will purge the names of thousands of deceased individuals from the state s voter rolls. Pictured: Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gather outside of a Gettysburg hotel prior to a Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee public hearing Nov. 25 on 2020 election issues and irregularities. (Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Pennsylvania, one of the top battlegrounds of the 2020 election, has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls before the general elections this year.
The agreement was reached last week, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election-integrity watchdog group that first identified the names of 21,000 dead people who were still registered to vote a month before the 2020 election.
The suit, filed in November, alleged that at least 21,000 deceased individuals were still on voter rolls during the 2020 presidential election. Data compiled by the Watchdog group showed that more than 9,200 of the people registered had been dead for at least five years, in addition to nearly 1,990 that had been dead for 10 years. An estimated 197 voters were dead for at least twenty years.