The Federalist has the report:
A conservative legal group identified grave markers for various deceased Michigan residents still listed on the state’s voter rolls, video footage provided to The Federalist shows.
Published by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), the mini-documentary shines a light on the inclusion of long-deceased Michigan residents as active voters on the state’s voter registration lists. As shown in the video, some of these individuals have remained on the lists despite dying decades prior.
One of these former residents is a woman named Mamie Jones, whose voter file listed a birth year of 1823 — 14 years before Michigan became a state. According to the records reviewed by PILF, Jones was registered to vote as recently as 2008.
Another former resident highlighted in the video is Pauline Schmainda, who died in 1990 and is still listed on Michigan’s voter rolls. “There have been 16 federal elections since Pauline passed away,” said PILF Communications Director Lauren Bis, who visited Schmainda’s grave marker.
Michigan’s voter rolls are so mismanaged that PILF identified generations of residents who are still listed as active electors. Despite having been dead for decades, Theresa Domasiewicz and her son, Thomas, both remain listed on Michigan’s voter registration lists, according to PILF. The former has been dead for so long that her grave marker has sunken into the ground.
“Over 17,000 of the registrants on the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s list passed away over a decade ago,” according to Bis.
See the whole report on the Federalist here.
