Report: America Has Nearly 300,000 Double-Registered Voters
By: Logan Washburn | August 01, 2024
Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/01/report-america-has-nearly-300000-double-registered-voters/
Logan Washburn
A watchdog group has uncovered close to 300,000 voters registered in two or more states, including thousands of double voters.
“Registrars aren’t doing their jobs,” Linda Szynkowicz, CEO of the nonprofit Fight Voter Fraud, told The Federalist. “Stop telling me the voter rolls are fine. They’re not.”
Fight Voter Fraud found 297,856 voters registered in two or more states, according to a report released last week. Nearly all of these voters only registered in two states, but 3,112 registered in three states and 24 registered in four or more.
The report also found 3,170 people who voted at least twice in elections from 2016 to 2022. While most only double voted once, 248 double voted twice, 194 double voted three times, and 180 double voted four times.
Fight Voter Fraud’s report included data for all 50 states, of which Florida had the most double registrations — more than 37,000 — along with 312 who voted multiple times in elections. California had similar numbers, with more than 36,000 double registered, and 732 who voted multiple times. States including Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, and Texas also had over 10,000 double registrations.
Fight Voter Fraud found one individual who voted twice in North Carolina and once in Florida in 2020, according to Szynkowicz.
“This is the lowest hanging fruit,” she said.
If someone was registered for an absentee ballot in one state, but moved and registered in a new state, officials might still send the absentee ballot and someone could potentially vote in their name, according to Szynkowicz.
Fight Voter Fraud announced July 30 that more than 500 dead voters were still registered in Connecticut.
“Even with the dead people voting, whether it’s someone impersonating or someone who gets the absentee ballot request form,” Szynkowicz said, “it’s all over the place.”
Voting more than once is a violation of federal law with a penalty of up to five years in prison or a fine of up to $10,000. Anyone who “knowingly or willfully” provides false information about “name, address or period of residence” in a voting district is subject to similar penalties.
The group compared the National Change of Address system with state voter rolls to find the dual registrations, then verified the results with “commercial data,” according to Szynkowicz.
“We don’t just take things and throw it against the wall to see what sticks. All of our stuff is going to stick,” she said, noting that election integrity advocates may have removed some dual registrants since the report first included them five months ago.
Because the data excludes those who did not file with the NCOA system, the report said, the “actual numbers could be significantly higher.”
“People don’t understand, you can’t be registered in more than one location,” Szynkowicz said. “They assume that if they register somewhere else — the ones who unknowingly are double registered — that they’ll automatically be removed. That’s not the case.”
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