By Kristine Christlieb | February 10, 2025
News & Commentary Editor, Michigan Fair Elections Institute
A Michigan Fair Elections Institute (MFEI) volunteer examining the Qualified Voter File (QVF) has discovered a person who passed away in 2019 somehow managed to vote in person in Michigan’s November 2022 election.
A resident of Livonia, the MFEI volunteer has been reviewing his municipality’s voting records for months, sorting the file by voters’ birth years, beginning with the oldest registered voters.
According to the volunteer, the oldest voters in the file had a birth year of 1900, making them more than 100 years old.
In this case, it wasn’t the voter’s date of birth that brought her record to the MFEI volunteer, it was a gap in her voting record.
“Using data from Check My Vote, I saw there was a gap in this woman’s voting history. She regularly voted absentee between November 2009 through November 2015 but then stopped voting — until she voted in person on November 8, 2022. I decided to investigate that seven-year voting gap and the switch from absentee to in person voting,” explained the MFEI volunteer.
The volunteer QVF investigator then turned to his subscription to a genealogy site and searched for an obituary. He found the voter! But did he have the correct person? The obituary said the woman was from Livonia, so that checked out, but she had died in Virginia. The move from Livonia to Virginia had to be verified.
The next tool in the volunteer’s toolbox was Truepeoplesearch.com. He found an address for the voter that corresponded with an address associated with the voter’s daughter, mentioned in the obituary. The voter probably moved from Michigan to live with her daughter in Virginia where she died. The MFEI volunteer was confident he had the right voter, and submitted the name and his evidence to the county clerk for removal from the voter rolls.
According to the volunteer, “This situation could have probably been prevented if there were systemic voter roll maintenance. The process should have begun to remove her from the vote rolls since there was a seven- year gap in her voting between November 2015 and November 2022. It did not happen because she was listed categorized as an active voter throughout that gap period. This is one of the major issues with the Michigan voter rolls. The lack of voter roll maintenance allows too many registrants to remain on the voter rolls long after they should have been removed, resulting in these issues occurring.”
The MFEI investigator says in his experience, this kind of incident, a dead person casting a vote, is rare. What is not rare is voter registration rolls littered with hundreds of registrants who are dead, have moved out of state, or in some other way are disqualified from voting.
“More volunteers are needed to help busy clerks maintain clean voter rolls,” said the MFEI volunteer.
For more information about how to help clean Michigan’s voter rolls, contact MFEI Director of Field Operations, Jacky Eubanks, jackyforMichigan@gmail.com.
Kristine Christlieb serves as senior correspondent on MFEI's communications team. She publishes Trust but Verify on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/trustbutverifyreport/p/voter-registration-blitzkrieg?r=2haa2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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