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INDIANAPOLIS — An independent, nationwide analysis of voter rolls in 42 states has identified thousands of probable deceased and duplicate registrants, as well as cases of individuals credited for voting more than once. The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has launched the Safeguarding America’s Votes and Elections (SAVE) Database as an analysis tool to track voter roll deficiencies and potential problem areas across America. Announced today, the groundbreaking findings in their national report indicates that the SAVE Database raises serious concerns over the integrity of states’ voter files as election officials anticipate a surge in mail-in voting this fall.

SAVE revealed 349,773 apparently deceased registrants across 41 states’ voter rolls, with New York, Texas, Michigan, Florida and California alone accounting for 51 percent of the total.

During the 2018 General Election, 37,889 likely duplicate registrants are apparently credited for casting two votes from the same address, and 34,000 registrants appear to have voted from non-residential addresses. Additionally, 6,718 registrants were apparently credited for voting after death. During the 2016 General Election, SAVE revealed that number was higher, with a total of 7,890 registrants apparently being credited for voting after death.

After PILF collected data from 42 states and put it into a format where it could be studied, it was rigorously compared to commercial and government databases to increase confidence in the conclusions with particular emphasis on validating identities matched across state lines. Also included with the data were voter history fields, namely, data about when each registrant voted. The combination of state election data, commercial data, and federal sources such as the Social Security Death Index, provides researchers with perhaps the best platform ever constructed to analyze the health of the voter rolls and catalogue potential vulnerabilities.

The findings are a helpful starting point for state election officials to review the findings and make final determinations and take appropriate actions.

Notable Findings:

• 349,773: total number of potentially deceased registrants across 41 states.
  • Michigan, Florida, New York, Texas and California account for roughly 51% of national dead registrants.
• In 2016, 7,890 registrants were apparently credited for voting after death.
• In 2018, 6,718 registrants were credited for voting after death.
  • North Carolina leads the U.S. in dead registrants credited for voting after death.
• 43,760 likely duplicate registrants appear to have cast second votes in 2016 from the same address.
• 37,889 likely duplicate registrants appear to have cast second votes in 2018 from the same address.
  • Thousands of these apparent double votes were exclusively mail ballots
• 8,360 – Number of registrants apparently registered in 2 states and credited for voting in both states in 2018.
• 5,500 – Number of apparently duplicate registrants credited for voting twice in the same state from 2 different addresses in 2018.
• 34,000 – Number of registrants credited for voting from apparently non-residential addresses in 2018.