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Monday, Jul 6, 2020

Did a lawsuit seek to force Detroit to remove the names of dead voters from its rolls?

Jiyul Kim, Gigafact Foundry
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On June 30 the Public Interest Legal Foundation dropped its lawsuit against the city of Detroit, after confirming the city had brought its voter lists up to date. The foundation, a non-profit that files similar election-integrity cases around the country, initially identified concerns such as duplicate registrations and registrations for at least 2,500 deceased voters.

Third-party data over the years has suggested the city had a persistent implausibly high registration rate. “We purge based on death records from the county that we get monthly, from the Social Security office that we get monthly, from mailings that come back undeliverable,” city clerk Janice Winfrey told the Detroit News.

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