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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A man who President Donald Trump has promoted as an authority on voter fraud was registered to vote in multiple states during the 2016 presidential election, the Associated Press has learned.
Gregg Phillips, whose unsubstantiated claim that the election was marred by 3 million illegal votes was tweeted by the president, was listed on the rolls in Alabama, Texas and Mississippi, according to voting records and election officials in those states. He voted only in Alabama in November, records show.
In a post earlier this month, Phillips described "an amazing effort" by volunteers tied to True the Vote, an organization whose board he sits on, who he said found "thousands of duplicate records and registrations of dead people."
The AP found that Phillips was registered in Alabama and Texas under the name Gregg Allen Phillips, with the identical Social Security number. Mississippi records list him under the name Gregg A. Phillips, and that record includes the final four digits of Phillips' Social Security number, his correct date of birth and a prior address matching one once attached to Gregg Allen Phillips. He has lived in all three states.
https://apnews.com/80497cfb5f054c9b8c9e0f8f5ca30a62
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(11,744 posts)Registration fraud or errors in registration are common. People paid by the name to register voters will often come up with names to register. Some go so far as to register deceased people. People move to different states and register to vote in their new homes.
That is not VOTER FRAUD. Voter fraud is when people actually attempt to cast fraudulent ballots with the intention to sway an election.
They don't want to investigate elections fraud because then they would have to look at all the dirty tricks the conservatives do to suppress the vote and they would shoot themselves in the foot, so they harp on about voter fraud which is the hardest, and most stupid way to try to rig an election.