Here’s a good place to start: West Virginia Voter Fraud Advisory Issued by Secretary of State. This was from 2008. Whether it involves dead people but it does involve people fraudulently voting. In southern WV–at least until the convictions in the 1960s–it usually meant people on the voter lists casting ballots who were dead.

This wasn’t meant to be a comprehensive history piece, but that might be a good subject for the future.

Wow, so a lot of people in West Virginia moved … do you figure that means they all (or any of them) voted twice? How? There were “a number of ” convictions? What number would that be?

IF you do just a little bit of research into WV machine politics of the 1940s, 50s and 60s, you’ll realize that instead of coming off snarky in your comment, you just look uneducated. When Governor WW Barron was sent to prison, the rap sheet said “bribery and corruption”. Only because voter fraud is harder to prove did he escape that charge. But as the head of the “machine”, he was surrounded by it.

Not all instances of “dead people voting” in WV have been stamped out–but it doesn’t happen like it used to. Quite a few people have been sent to prison in order for regular West Virginians of today to have their ballots counted as they should be.

Do some research. If I do it all, you’ll have to wait for my next article.

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