When family members die, mail addressed to them can continue to arrive for years. A Facebook post suggests that this is a path to voter fraud. Here are the facts.
When family members die, mail addressed to them can continue to arrive for years. A Facebook post suggests that this is a path to voter fraud.from a man in Texas who said the campaign for Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for governor, sent a voter registration form to his mother, even though she died in 2020. The post said much of his mother’s identifying information, including date of birth, was already filled in on the form.
This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. From the photos in the post, we could not see a disclaimer on the mailer to assess if it was from O’Rourke’s campaign or a third party group supporting his campaign; O’Rourke’s campaign didn’t respond to our emails.
Evidence shows cases in multiple states of people prosecuted for casting a ballot in the name of a dead relative, but the examples are rare.When Texans submit a voter registration application, it includes their name, date of birth, driver’s license number or four digits of their Social Security number. That information is entered into the state’s database and is then compared with records from the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Social Security Administration.
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