LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Michigan’s elections director is denying allegations that “large-scale voter fraud,” as mentioned in a Donald Trump tweet on Monday, could happen in Michigan.
Chris Thomas says, if Trump, the Republican nominee for president, loses in Michigan next month, it will be because people didn’t vote for him. It will not be because of a larger conspiracy. He made that claim during a Tuesday appearance on Michigan’s Big Show with Michael Patrick Sheils.
Thomas said the successful “rigging” of a state election would require thousands of dead people on voter rolls, knowledge by some group that those people are still registered, and the person posing as the dead voter would have to present a signed affidavit or matching ID to poll workers.
“How many of those are you going to be able to do on an election day, and how many people are you going to have involved in that process attempting to do that and keep it under wraps as a huge conspiracy?” Thomas said. “It would be, I think, virtually impossible.”
Trump cited a national Pew Research study, which found 24 million invalid or inaccurate voter registrations. That study also found that 1.8 million dead people were still listed as voters and 2.75 million people were registered in more than one state.
Thomas said his office works closely state and federal agencies to ensure Michigan’s voter rolls aren’t flooded with dead people and people disallowed from voting in state elections.
