Report: Nearly 900K deceased individuals still registered as active voters in Puerto Rico
09/26/2024 // Laura Harris // 5.7K Views
A report from the Puerto Rico-based investigative journalism firm, the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) report has found that hundreds of thousands of deceased individuals in the commonwealth remain registered active voters in the General Registry of Voters (RGE).
The investigators analyzed data from the RGE, interviewed sources from major political parties in the territory, spoke with individuals in the Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections (CEE) and assessed hundreds of other documents.
The CPI discovered widespread irregularities in the electoral process in Puerto Rico. For instance, the CPI found that at least 5,872 deceased individuals who passed away between 2015 and September 2020 were still marked as active voters in the RGE. Some were even able to vote in the 2016 and 2020 elections after they had been marked as deceased. (Related: Texas PURGES one million ineligible voters from voter rolls, including non-citizens and dead people.)
The RGE also includes around 2,865 voters who would be over 100 years old, with some having birth dates in the 1800s. Out of a sample of 450 of these centenarian voters, the CPI found that fewer than two percent had been excluded from the voter rolls due to death. Shockingly, the investigation uncovered records of a voter named Luquillo, born in 1828, who reportedly "reactivated" his registration to cast a ballot in the 2020 election.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-09-26-deceased-individuals-still-registered-voters-puerto-rico.html
