RALEIGH (WTVD) --
The state Board of Elections revealed Wednesday that more than 35,000
people may have double voted by casting ballots in North Carolina and
another state during the 2012 election.
The Board of Elections was careful to say they don't have proof of fraud, but they have good reason to look closer.
"They verified there was voter fraud," said Susan Myrick, with the conservative think tank NC Civitas.
Myrick
has been warning about voter fraud for years, and she said the numbers
just out show it's happening, and it's happening a lot.
"They identified tens of thousands of voters that potentially voted in North Carolina and another state," said Myrick.
Initial findings from the Board presented to the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee Wednesday showed:
765
voters with an exact match of first and last name, date of birth, and
last four digits of the social security number were registered in N.C.
and another state, and voted in N.C. and the other state in the 2012
general election.
35,750 voters with the same first and last
name and date of birth were registered in N.C. and another state, and
voted in both states in the 2012 general election.
Those findings only include data from the 28 states which participated in the 2014 Interstate Crosscheck.
Additionally,
during an audit of death records from the Department of Health and
Human Services, the Board discovered 81 deceased voters that had voter
activity after they died. The executive director of the state
Board of Elections says there could be plausible explanations for much
of the problem including human error at the polling stations.
"We
do have exact matches, and that concerns us," said Kim Strach, with the
Board of Elections, "but we still need to investigate to insure that
it's not error or precinct error, because that does happen."
As for potential fraud, it
could be even more than the nearly 36,000 cases because only 28 states
share voting information, and many of the bigger ones do not.
The executive director of the state Board of Elections says there could be plausible explanations for much of the problem including human error at the polling stations.
