A video on Facebook suggests that the Wisconsin voter rolls are padded with tens of thousands of voters who registered to vote more than a century ago.
"The Wisconsin voter roll has over 120,000 active voters who have been registered to vote for over 100 years," said the speaker in a Facebook video shared Jan. 7. "The margin of victory is 20,000. Yes that’s right: Biden beat Trump by 21,000 votes yet there are over 120,000 people in Wisconsin who are more than 100 years old and they are voters."
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The video comes from Ivory Hecker, a Fox 26 Houston general assignment reporter who was fired in 2021 after she accused Fox Corp of "muzzling" her live on air and said she made recordings of her bosses and gave them to Project Veritas, an organization known for undercover reporting using hidden cameras and selectively edited recordings. Hecker told us she is now an independent journalist.
Ivory’s video clip doesn’t flat out say that these improbably old voters are a sign of fraud, but it implies that there is something suspicious about the battleground state’s voter rolls. Democrat Joe Biden did beat Republican incumbent Donald Trump for president in Wisconsin by roughly 21,000 votes.
Hecker’s video ignores the explanation by the Wisconsin Elections Commission about why there are so many voters with dates of birth of 1900 and...
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