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Can we stop with these already? > Thus far, I have found thousands of voting records with 1900 as the date. That alone is not evidence! Quoting the AP at htt
by eesmith 6y ago
Can we stop with these already?
> Thus far, I have found thousands of voting records with 1900 as the date.
That alone is not evidence!
Quoting the AP at https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-election-dead-voter-claims-fc7ba254fd37059f63ea764c18c2a4cb https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-election-dead-voter...
> “Some states have a default ‘year of birth’ that they entered for registrations that lacked a year of birth on the old paper forms when voter registration was moved from paper to computer,” Roberts, the political science professor, explained in an email. “Those never get updated and as time goes on the voters with this issue look ‘older’ whether they are or not.”
Is this what happened in MI?
My guess - probably. Look at the "30 other ones you can manually check yourself" -- all of the ones in 1900 are in January!
Now, that might be because the author simply put the first 30 of thousands of such records, all of which are January ... except for the odd-ball June 1911 entry(?).
But if the author were aware that a default coding might be the issue, and wants to be convincing, then the right approach is to list examples throughout the year. More likely, the author doesn't understand the data set and inferring that the confusion is due to fraud, rather than ignorance.
It doesn't help that the "Search voter records in .. " link finds lots of people born in 1850.
Looking at of the entries, https://voterrecords.com/voter/19880777/richard-fletcher https://voterrecords.com/voter/19880777/richard-fletcher says Robert O Fletcher "(born 1891) is listed at 3657 Arndt St Detroit, Mi 48207 and has no known political party affiliation. He is a male registered to vote in Wayne County."
https://www.spokeo.com/MI/Detroit/3657-Arndt-St https://www.spokeo.com/MI/Detroit/3657-Arndt-St shows a "R Fletcher" age 29 as living at that address.
1991 + 29 = 2020 ... Ergo, voterrecords.com is wrong by exactly 100 years.
GIGO.