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Report: Facebook Has No Plans to Warn 500M Users Affected by Data Leak


Social media giant Facebook has not notified more than 530 million users whose personal details were leaked due to a poorly-coded feature on the platform and recently made public, and has no plans to do so according to a company spokesperson.

A recent report from Reuters states that Facebook has not notified the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained due to one of Facebook’s own features and recently made public in an online database, and has no plans to do so.

Breitbart News recently reported that hackers published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users, including users’ full names, locations, phone numbers, and email addresses. Via Business Insider:

A user in a low level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free online.

The exposed data includes personal information of over 533 million Facebook users from 106 countries, including over 32 million records on users in the US, 11 million on users in the UK, and 6 million on users in India. It includes their phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.

Insider reviewed a sample of the leaked data and verified several records by matching known Facebook users’ phone numbers with the IDs listed in the data set. We also verified records by testing email addresses from the data set in Facebook’s password reset feature, which can be used to partially reveal a user’s phone number.

A Facebook spokesperson told Reuters that the company is not confident it had full visibility on which users would need to be notified and also took into account that users could not fix the issue and the data was publicly available. Facebook claims that it fixed the bug that left the details vulnerable in the first place already.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the European Union’s lead regulator for Facebook, stated that it contacted the company about the leak this week. It said it received “no proactive communication from Facebook” but has since been in contact with the company.

Read more at Reuters here.

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WATCH – Big Rig Driver Blocks Murder Suspect’s Vehicle During Police Pursuit: ‘I Was Waiting for Him’


A suspect wanted in connection to a murder led officers on a chase Tuesday across Southern California but a truck driver decided to help end the pursuit.

Big rig driver Ahmed Shabaan attempted to end the chase by blocking the pickup truck’s path. He explained he knew a murder suspect was involved so he tracked the driver and maneuvered his rig so the suspect’s truck would crash into it near a Pomona intersection.

“I just thought to get him off the street because if I didn’t… if they’d been behind him for that long and didn’t stop him… I have the power,” Shabaan told Fox 11.

Prior to the crash, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department had been looking for the suspect but when deputies tried to contact the man, he reportedly attacked a deputy and took off in a pickup truck.

The chase took authorities across Riverside County and on to East San Gabriel. The suspect’s vehicle reportedly reached speeds of over 90 miles per hour on the 60 Freeway.

Aerial video footage showed the moment the suspect’s pickup truck rammed into Shabaan’s big rig as multiple law enforcement vehicles approached from behind:

“It is instinct for me, it’s natural for me,” Shabaan said of his actions. “I was waiting for him. I was trying to see where he’s at exactly so I can pinpoint him, and then I blocked him.”

Following the crash, the suspect was taken into custody and his passenger interviewed before deputies released her.

The passenger identified herself as Roxy and claimed she did not know that the driver, who is reportedly a friend from Bakersfield, was wanted in connection with a murder.

The suspect was transported to the hospital but Roxy and Shabaan reportedly were fine after the incident.

The Los Angeles Times later identified the suspect as 36-year-old Michael Caleb Reed.

“Reed is suspected in the shooting death of a 40-year-old man in Oildale in late March,” the outlet concluded.

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Fact-Checking Biden’s Latest Gun Control Press Conference

On Thursday, Joe Biden announced further executive actions on the subject of gun control, saying “Enough prayers, time for some action.”

During the announcement, Biden delivered a speech riddled with falsehoods. Let’s debunk some of the most egregious claims Biden made during his short statement.

Biden parrots the “gun show loophole” lie

“These bills, one, require background checks for anyone purchasing a gun at a gun show, or an online sale,” Biden said, which triggered applause from the audience.

“Most people don’t know it, you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want, and no background check.”

This is one of the most prevalent and misleading falsehoods promulgated by the Left when it comes to gun control. Federally licensed gun sellers are required, by law, to run background checks on all firearm purchases, whether at a gun show or in their gun store.

Unlicensed private individuals are permitted to sell guns without running a background check, but this is the case regardless of their location.

Biden falsely claims that “his” assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban reduced mass shootings

“I know this has been a hobby horse of mine for a long time. Got it done once,” Biden said. “We should also ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country.”

“For that 10 years we had it done, the number of mass shootings actually went down,” Biden claimed.

As Katie Pavlich wrote in March 2021 for Townhall in a piece titled “Fact Check the Left: Did a Clinton Era Gun Ban ‘Bring Down Mass Killings’ as Biden Claims?” this is simply false.

Not only is this period too small a sample size to reach any statistically significant conclusions, but the average number of mass shootings per year before and during the “Assault Weapons Ban” didn’t change, staying at 1.5 events per year.

Biden argues that stabilizing braces make weapons more lethal

“We want to treat pistols, modified with stabilizing braces, with the seriousness they deserve,” Biden said. “A stabilizing brace […] essentially makes that pistol a hell of a lot more accurate and a mini-rifle. As a result, it’s more lethal. Effectively, turning it into a short-barreled rifle.”

“That’s what the alleged shooter in Boulder appears to have done,” he added.

The lethality of the firearm is the key part here, given that the stability of the gun after being fired (which is the purpose of the stabilizing brace) has no effective impact on the bullet fired or its deadliness.

Biden lies, saying that gun violence is an epidemic

“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic,” Biden claimed. “Let me say it again. Gun violence in this country is an epidemic. 

While gun violence certainly exists, the truth is that “as gun ownership has increased, the rate of firearm homicides has steadily declined since a brief spike in the early 1990s.”

Joe Biden makes numerous false claims about the U.S. Constitution

“But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute.” Biden said. “You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech.”

This claim is routinely parroted by members of the Left while attempting to pick holes in the First and Second Amendments. Unfortunately for them, it’s a false claim.

“From the very beginning, you couldn’t own any weapon you wanted to own. From the very beginning of the Second Amendment existed, certain people weren’t allowed to have weapons. So the idea is just bizarre to suggest that some of the things we’re recommending are contrary to the Constitution,” Biden also said.

The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” While it is true that not all people have been permitted to “have weapons,” as Biden claimed, the reasoning behind such prevention was often changed by further amendments, such as the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery.

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Ilhan Omar attacks Biden administration for ‘shameful’ plans to resume construction on ‘racist’ border wall

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) blasted President Joe Biden for his administration’s reported plans to resume construction of the southern border wall.

"It’s shameful and unacceptable for @POTUS to continue the construction of Trump’s xenophobic and racist wall," Omar tweeted on Wednesday.

It’s shameful and unacceptable for @POTUS to continue the construction of Trump’s xenophobic and racist wall.

— Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan Omar)1617814997.0

Omar lashed out at President Biden after a report this week by the Washington Times that said the Department of Homeland Security is considering continuing construction on the border wall to fill in "gaps."

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas reportedly told Immigration and Customs Enforcement staffers that due to the recent surge in illegal immigrants, the Biden administration is open to resuming some construction on the border wall.

"The president has communicated quite clearly his decision that the emergency that triggered the devotion of DOD funds to the construction of the border wall is ended," the DHS secretary allegedly said. "But that leaves room to make decisions as the administration, as part of the administration, in particular areas of the wall that need renovation, particular projects that need to be finished."

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about the report that the border wall construction is resuming.

"Wall construction remains paused, to the extent permitted by law," Psaki said during Tuesday’s press conference. "So some has already been funded through a congressional authorization and funding allocation. But as agencies develop for a plan — it’s paused while agencies are developing a plan for the president on the management of the federal funds."

"Federal agencies are continuing to review wall contracts and develop a plan to submit to the president soon," Psaki added. "It is paused. There is some limited construction that has been funded and allocated for, but it is otherwise paused."

"Wall construction remains paused, there is a review under way taking a look at funds that have been allocated," Psaki said. "We have never believed the wall is an answer to addressing immigration challenges."

On the campaign trail, Biden ran on rolling back the immigration policies of former President Donald Trump. On Biden’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that halted the construction of the border wall.

"Building a massive wall that spans the entire southern border is not a serious policy solution," Biden said on his first day as president on Jan. 20. "It is a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security. My administration is committed to ensuring that the United States has a comprehensive and humane immigration system that operates consistently with our nation’s values."

"Approximately 450 miles of wall was constructed under the Trump administration, with officials saying about an additional 350 was funded," Fox News reported.

Former President Donald Trump hammered the Biden administration over its handling of the current border crisis.

"The wall is just a few weeks away from being completed. [Biden] didn’t want to complete it," Trump told Fox News. "They should finish the wall, number one. And they should have the [Remain in Mexico] policy reinserted, because if you don’t have that, this is going to be a disaster. …The wall should be completed by now if he let — he stopped it almost at his first day. He stopped construction of the wall."

"I don’t know what they’re doing. And they don’t know what they’re doing," Trump said of the Biden administration. "It’s a very, very dangerous situation. I’d love not to be involved. Somebody else is supposed to be doing it."

Trump went on to say that he was planning on visiting the southern border in the near future.

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CALLED OUT! Tech Mogul Peter Thiel SCORCHES Google, Apple for Ties to China

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel torched Google and Apple for ties to China at an event hosted by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Thiel raked Big Tech companies over the coals at an April 6 seminar for ignoring the United States of America’s interests while appearing friendly to an authoritarian foreign power like China. “There’s something about the woke politics inside these [tech] companies, the way they think of themselves as not really American companies,” Thiel commented. “And it’s somehow very, very difficult to, for them to have a sharp anti-China edge of any sort whatsoever.”
Thiel recounted damning conversations he had with Google employees, where they seemed strategically indifferent about whether their technology was being used to run concentration camps for ethnic minorities. “I had a set of conversations with some of the Google people in the DeepMind [artificial intelligence] technology,” he explained. He said he asked “Is your A.I. being used to, you know, run the concentration camps in Xinjiang?” to which Thiel said Google employees replied: “‘Well, we don’t really know and don’t ask any questions.’”
Thiel condemned Google’s staff for “pretending that everything’s fine” and “wishful thinking.” He suggested Big Tech is full of “useful idiots” and “CCP fifth columnist collaborators."
The Richard Nixon Foundation’s official transcript quoted Thiel specifically contrasting Big Tech’s lack of cooperation with America to its overt cooperation with China:
“You know, I criticized Google a few years ago for refusing to work on its AI technology on Project Maven with the U.S. military, but working with Chinese universities and Chinese researchers. And since everything in China is a civilian- military fusion, Google was effectively working with the Chinese military, not with the American military.”
A Google spokesperson reportedly denied Thiel’s claims and told CNBC: “These allegations are baseless. We do not work with the Chinese military. We are proud to continue our long history of work with the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense, in many areas including cybersecurity, recruiting and healthcare.”
Google’s ties with China are a common source of scandal for the company.
Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) publicly slammed Google for enabling Chinese tyranny during a Congressional Antitrust Hearing hearing in July 2020. Buck commented on how Google removed itself from the bidding process to work with the American military, but continued to work with China. He also mentioned Google’s embarrassing involvement with Project Dragonfly, a search engine that was being developed for the communist Chinese regime “to spy on its own people and enforce draconian security laws.”
Google was not the only Big Tech company Thiel called out at the Richard Nixon Foundation seminar. 
“Thiel also said that Apple was unlikely to confront China because of its massive supply chain to manufacture iPhones and other products in the country,” CNBC reported. Thiel also reportedly called for “the U.S. to put a ‘lot of pressure’ and scrutiny on Apple because of its labor supply chain in the country.” Apple’s reliance on China for manufacturing are well known, addressed by outlets such as The Wall Street Journal as a “dependency.”
Thiel co-founded PayPal, has a seat on Facebook’s board, and has a history of being a comparatively conservative-friendly voice in the Big Tech world.
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Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site Shut Down After Adverse Reactions Reported

Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Site Shut Down After Adverse Reactions Reported

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A mass vaccination site at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado was shut down after several adverse reactions to the Johnson & Johnson CCP virus vaccine, said Centura Health, which is managing the site.

More than 600 people who had appointments were turned away from the “Vaccines for All” event in Commerce City after 11 people who were administered the shot developed adverse reactions during the on-side observation period, said Kevin Massey, a spokesperson for Centura Health, told local news outlets.

“Following the administration of the J&J vaccine and during onsite observation, we saw a limited number of adverse reactions to the vaccine,” Centura Health said in a separate statement.

The Colorado Department of Public Health said some patients experienced nausea and dizziness after getting the J&J vaccine, while Centura confirmed that nine individuals were monitored on-site and were sent home and two individuals were taken to nearby hospitals out of an abundance of caution.

“Over 1,700 patients received their shots today, and the 640 patients who were unable to receive their vaccine this afternoon will automatically be rescheduled for Sunday, April 11, at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Our goal is to continue to vaccinate Coloradans as quickly as possible while keeping our patients’ safety at the forefront,” said Centura.

Massey told the Denver Post that the number of people who experienced adverse reactions was about 0.8 percent.

“We followed our protocols and, in an abundance of caution, made the decision—in partnership with the state—to pause operations for the remainder of the day,” Massey said.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is a one-dose vaccine for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19. That’s opposed to the two-shot Moderna and Pfizer vaccines that are also approved for emergency use in the United States.

Before Wednesday’s event, the state health department recorded 10 reactions at Colorado’s community mass-vaccination sites, according to the paper.

Reactions to COVID-19 vaccines have been reported in recent weeks, including a Virginia man who suffered a reported skin reaction after what doctors said was from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Colorado Health officials, following the closure of the site, stressed that getting the vaccine is “far safer than getting severely sick with COVID-19.”

European Union health officials on Wednesday made a similar statement after researchers found a “possible link” between the AstraZeneca CCP virus vaccine and rare blood clots.

The Epoch Times has contacted Centura for additional comment.

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Joe Biden is coming for the suburbs


President Trump tried to make a big deal about Joe Biden’s plan to federally mandate cheap apartments with low-income residents into suburban single-family zones.  The claim was that it would achieve “equality.”  The unstated plan was “more Democrat voters.”

Trump warned of it as a scheme to end the suburbs, and it turns out he was right.  Biden’s $3.2-trillion infrastructure plan sneaks that leftist dream scheme into its thousands of pages of legislation, instead of letting the bad idea die on its own through a true congressional vote.

The New York Post warned in 2020 that the whole scheme is ”disastrous.” 

Biden and the equality warriors are using accusations of racism to accomplish something different. Their message is: You worked and saved to move to the suburbs, but you can’t have that way of life unless everyone else can, too.

The wisdom of tightly packing them in in the Age of COVID is quite an idiocy, but as the summer of 2020 riots demonstrated, COVID precautions are unimportant when the issue is “racism,” which this Biden federal takeover of housing zonings was supposed to cure. 

Back on the 2020 campaign trail, as Trump went out (and Biden hid in his basement), Trump tried to warn them, though nobody much paid attention.

The Associated Press, in a disdainful piece, reported that Trump tweeted:

The Suburban Housewives of America must read this article. Biden will destroy your neighborhood and your American Dream. I will preserve it, and make it even better! https://t.co/1NzbR57Oe6

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2020

Besides being disdainful, the AP report was dishonest.  The AP “fact check” item falsely claimed, in the nut graf, no less, that Biden had absolutely no plan to abolish the suburbs, none, and had plenty to suggest, via convenient quotes, that anyone who thought so was a Trumpy conspiracy theorist and, a above all, a racist.

Biden does not propose banishing single-family homes. Nor would he get rid of the suburbs.

Oh, but he does, he does.  He just doesn’t say so openly.

Buried deep in Biden’s monster $2.3-trillion “infrastructure” stimulus package is a sneaky little notation that would mandate a federal takeover for local zoning for any district that takes the proffered federal money, coming off such zones’ already paid taxes.

According to Stanley Kurtz, writing at National Review:

With the introduction of his massive, $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” bill, President Biden’s campaign to end suburban single-family zoning has begun. If you think this issue was debated and resolved during the 2020 presidential campaign, you are mistaken. It’s true that Biden’s campaign platform openly and unmistakably pledged to abolish single-family zoning. As soon as President Trump made an issue of that pledge, however, Biden went virtually silent on the issue and the Democrat-supporting press falsely denied that Biden had any designs on single-family zoning at all. Now that he’s president, Biden’s infrastructure bill openly includes programs designed to “eliminate” single-family zoning (which Biden calls “exclusionary zoning”). 

Kurtz’s account is a total green-eyeshade number made easily readable, explaining that Biden’s plan is to abolish single-family zoning by holding out the carrot of federal funding to suburban towns.

The wildly overreaching Obama-Biden era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation — which Biden has pledged to revive — works in a similar fashion. The difference is that by adding another gigantic pot of federal money to the Community Development Block Grants that are the lure of AFFH, Biden makes it that much harder for suburbs to resist applying — and that much more punishing to jurisdictions that forgo a share of the federal taxes they’ve already paid so as to protect their right to self-rule.

In other words, take the king’s penny, do the king’s bidding.  The Biden plan would nationalize zoning in the hands of the feds (just as the feds would take over elections with the congressional Democrats’ despicable H.R. 1), meaning that anyone who would like the peace of living in the suburbs, and might enjoy seeing his kids go out and ride bikes without supervision, is s[ooo] out of luck.  The feds would take over in what they claim is the name of racial “balancing.”

The racial balancing claim is gallingly dishonest.  The suburbs are not segregated by race, or because ”George Wallace is blocking the door,” as Dr. Ben Carson, M.D. noted, but a function of who can afford a single-family home.  Unfortunately, that takes education, hard work, degrees, schools that teach, savings, and putting off pleasures.  Many lower-income people are deprived of that, particularly if they are stuck in Democrat teachers’ union–led zero-excellence schools and can’t get out. 

But there are many non-white people who nevertheless do.  Consistent with what even Biden himself said on the campaign trail in one of his rare, out-of-the-basement appearances, the suburbs are not a bastion of whites.  The Atlantic Monthly noted it here.  Pew Research noted it in a research study here.  The composition of the suburbs, as a whole, comes very close to the racial composition of the U.S. as a whole.

This account, from the lefty Conversation site by an Eastern Michigan U professor, notes with academic rigor these very stats:

Suburbs are being transformed by a number of different forces.

For example, white Americans are getting older and having fewer children than non-white Americans.

At the same time, more black Americans are moving to the suburbs, thanks to increased income levels and decreasing rates of housing discrimination.

These changes mean that both mature and developing suburbs are rapidly becoming less white.

Non-Hispanic Asians and Hispanics accounted for the largest percentage increase of residents in both suburban types between 2000 and 2017.

In developing suburbs, the number of non-Hispanic blacks also increased slightly during the same time period.

Between 2000 and 2017, both suburban types also witnessed an increase in non-white immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for less than 10 years.

It certainly coincides with what anyone who has contact with suburbs would know.

So now Biden wants to rearrange the racial composition of America’s neighborhoods through zoning.

I’d like to see them try that in my suburb-like neighborhood in San Diego, which is now majority Asian-American.  What are they going to do, kick out some Asian-Americans and their kids to achieve racial balance?  Most homeowners here are Vietnamese-American, the high-achieving children of the Vietnamese Boat People of the 1970s.  Crime is virtually zero, and kids of all races freely play in the streets together with no hovering parents worried about criminals or perverts.   But no matter: In Bidenworld, back in Washington, D.C. among the vast federal bureaucracies, there probably aren’t enough black people (though there certainly aren’t none, and many of the black people who live here moved in in the 1960s), in line with San Diego’s general demographic profile.

San Diego, according to the Biden administration, would need 13% black people in line with the broad national average, even if such people would have to be imported from other parts of the country, or, this being Biden, maybe from abroad.  The Vietnamese would have to go; they’d fill some slots in some other city with not enough Asian-Americans, see.

This sounds a lot like what the Soviets called tsentral planning.  We all know how that worked out.

It’s a pity, because the Democrats are determined to pass this spending monstrosity with all the federal power to meddle with local zoning as its add-on.  The suburbs were warned they could kiss their safe neighborhoods goodbye, but many suburban voters who voted for Biden refused to heed it.

Now they’re about to be altered by Biden, who’s had the suburbs in his gun sights for months.

With racial segregation or “inequality” not a true issue, what could be the purpose of seeding every suburban town with densely packed urban housing and imported residents in the age of COVID?  By abolishing local control, the plan was to create a federally mandated densely packed urban hipsterization of every town in America.  It would force residents into public transit with zero alternatives, except for the very rich.  And it would drive up taxes as suburbs would have to shell out for more roads, bigger water systems, bigger sewer lines, and more electrical infrastructure to accommodate all the non-paying low-income new arrivals.  It would force increased budgets for schools, social welfare agencies, and mass transit.  More than anything, it would create Democrat voters.

The idea has always been to turn the suburbs blue, washing out those red votes by bringing in indigents forever dependent on permanent government services as one more than whatever a suburb has.  There’s a surplus of such voters in the big cities, after all, so why not spread them out?  A bonanza for developers with new housing contracts should lead to Democrat campaign donations, as well as canceling out conservative voting patterns.

Democrats are always first and foremost about perpetrating their own power, since their actual socialist ideas are no longer persuasive with voters.  Even that was known before Biden brought in his Trojan horse for the suburbs.  Democrats wrote about how the master plan to end local zoning was all about ending Texas’s status as a red state.  They knew, and what we can tell by that is that this re-zoning to them is ultra-important, not just for Texas, but for the entire country.

Now the Trojan horse is coming.  The leftist ship is sailing.  The leftist master plan is not racial inequality, which they thrive on, but to wipe out red suburban counties and turn them all blue.

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Pennsylvania Agrees to Exhume Dead From Its Voter Rolls

Pennsylvania, one of the top battlegrounds of the 2020 election, has agreed to remove the names of about 21,000 dead people from voter registration rolls before the general elections this year. 

The agreement was reached last week, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an election-integrity watchdog group that first identified the names of 21,000 dead people who were still registered to vote a month before the 2020 election. 

The organization provided Pennsylvania state officials with the names of 21,000 dead registrants who were not removed from the voting rolls after their deaths. 

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, said Pennsylvania failed to update voter registration records—violating the federal “motor voter” law. Pennsylvania law requires election officials to reject ballots cast by individuals no longer alive. 

“This marks an important victory for the integrity of elections in Pennsylvania,” Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams said. “The commonwealth’s failure to remove deceased registrants created a vast opportunity for voter fraud and abuse. It is important to not have dead voters active on the rolls for five, 10, or even 20 years. This settlement fixes that.”

After a briefing between Pennsylvania state officials and the legal foundation, the state agreed to compare the state’s death data used by the foundation to compile its list with the state’s voter registration database, according to the legal group.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office will provide the names of the individuals to county government officials and instruct the local officials to cancel the registrations.  

To show compliance with the agreement, the Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office will provide progress reports on the number of dead names removed from the voter registration records to the Public Interest Legal Foundation on May 30, Aug. 31, and Nov. 30. 

Pennsylvania will have races for one state Supreme Court seat, special elections to fill state legislative seats, and municipal races in 2021, according to Ballotpedia. 

The Pennsylvania Secretary of State’s Office did not respond to email or phone inquiries from The Daily Signal on Wednesday. 

The Indianapolis-based legal foundation said that of the 21,000 deceased people still on Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, 9,212 had been dead for at least five years, 1,990 had been deceased for at least 10 years, and 197 had been dead for at least 20 years. 

In 2018, the report showed 127 dead people on the voter rolls were recorded as having voted in Pennsylvania. That’s 50 fewer than the 177 dead Pennsylvanians credited with voting in the 2016 election. 

During the postelection litigation in 2020, President Donald Trump’s campaign and others accurately identified provable instances of votes being cast in the names of dead people who were still registered to vote. However, the Trump campaign inaccurately cited the names of several voters as dead who turned out to be still living. 

Democratic challenger Joe Biden outpolled Trump by more than 80,000 votes in the state to capture Pennsylvania en route to winning the presidency.

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