Us election results 2020: Who were the "zombie" who participated in the US elections? #elections

Us election results in 2020.

Roberto Garcia told us, "I am alive and I have voted Biden."

Trump supporters claimed that the votes of thousands of people were entered into the US election polling process using the names of dead people.

"I might be 72 years old, but I'm still alive and breathing. My mind is working fine and I'm in good health," Maria Arredondo, from Michigan, told us when we called.

Maria explained that she had voted for Joe Biden and that she was surprised to hear that her name appeared on the list of presumed dead voters in the state. And we spoke to other people who were in a similar situation to Maria's in Michigan and found similar stories. And there were some cases in previous US elections of dead people whose names appeared as eligible participants. This may occur as a result of clerical errors or perhaps the similarity of Asmaa to other family members who cast their votes in the elections, but Trump supporters claim that this happened on a large scale in this election. We have been keen here to scrutinize this claim to discover whether there is evidence to support it.

10,000 "dead in the mail vote" in Michigan.

The story begins with a list of 10,000 names that a Trump supporter tweeted. She claims these people are dead, but they voted in the polls in the Michigan presidential election. A tweet by a pro-Trump activist alleges that there are 10,000 dead among those who voted in absentia in Michigan Comment on the image, A tweet by a pro-Trump activist alleges that there are 10,000 dead among those who voted in absentia in Michigan Such allegations have been repeated several times on various social media platforms, with some being published by Republican lawmakers. The list of 10,000 names also includes the address or zip code of these people and the date of the day on which they handed in their ballot papers, as well as the full date of birth and the full date of death. Some of the names on the list are presumed dead 50 years ago. And in the Michigan State database, you can just enter someone's name, zip code, month, and year of birth; Seeing that he participated in the vote in absentia (via mail) this year. So it is easy to check whether the people named on the list participated in the elections. Several US websites contain databases of death records. But there was a fundamental problem with this Ten Thousand List. Through such checking and searching, you can see some false similarities in the list. For example, someone born in January 1940 participated in voting in the elections this year, and there is someone who was born on the same date elsewhere in the United States and has the same name and is dead now. This may happen often in large countries like the United States (328 million people), and especially with similar common names. To test the reliability of this list, we randomly selected 30 names. And to that, we added the oldest people on the list. We were able to speak with 11 people from that list of 31 names (or with a member of the family, a neighbor, or a home care worker) to confirm to us whether they were still alive. As for the remaining 17 people, we did not find a general record of them confirming their death. We found clear evidence that they were alive after the Ten Thousand List claimed they were dead. It shows us a false record form in which false information was collected to create a false similarity between people's names, dates of death, and participation in the elections. Finally, we found three people on the list who were truly dead. We will test these cases and examine them more later. People took to the streets in Detroit, Michigan, claiming election fraud

What did we discover?

We began by checking the Michigan State Election Database to discover whether the 31 people we randomly selected from the published list had participated in the election polling process. Indeed, they all participated in that. We then looked at the records of the dead and quickly became suspicious to see that the majority of the names mentioned were not dead in Michigan, but elsewhere in the United States. Trump supporters have published a list of names they claim to be dead who participated in the election Comment on the image, Trump supporters have published a list of names they claim to be dead who participated in the election We wondered if we would ever find people with the same names living in Michigan. By comparing Michigan public records with voter postal address codes, we were able to determine the exact birthdate of those people who participated in the election - and, as we expected - that did not match the birthdays of these people in the death records.

So we became confident that we were dealing with two different groups of people - those who participated in the elections and those who had the same names and the same ages but who had died elsewhere than in the state. However, what we want to do is speak to the aforementioned voters themselves directly.

"I am alive" We phoned Roberto Garcia, a retired teacher in Michigan, and he told us, "I am definitely alive, and I have certainly given my vote to Biden - and I hope I'm dead as long as I vote for Trump."

We also found a 100-year-old woman, and the "dead voters" list indicates that she died in 1982. But she was alive and living in a nursing home in Michigan. However, our results were not always straightforward. When we looked at the case of another woman who also lived for a century and died according to the list in 1997, we found that she was alive when her ballot was sent back in September, but a neighbor told us. That the woman died only a few weeks ago