Florida Officials Foil Plot to Register Dead People as Democratic Voters

A voter leaves after filling out their ballot at the Beltrami County Administration building in Bemidji, Minn., on Sept. 18, 2020. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

Florida officials have foiled a scheme to register dozens of dead people as new voters in Broward County through mail-in applications, authorities said.

An unidentified person from Columbia, South Carolina, submitted more than 50 new voter applications with 19 envelopes in the same handwriting to the Broward Election Office in July. Staff in the election office flagged and turned over those suspicious applications to the Broward State Attorney’s Office, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.