24 Feb 2012 7:25 pm
How the South Carolina 'Dead Voters' Hoax CollapsedLast month, officials in South Carolina, facing resistance from the Department of Justice to their new voter ID law, concocted a ghoulish tale of dead voters taking over the state's elections.As was suspected from the beginning, the fevered stories of "zombie voters" turned out to be fantasy.No Dead Voters Found on South Carolina's Alleged Zombie Voter ListIn December GOP Attorney General Alan Wilson said on Fox News that thousands of dead people in South Carolina were on the voter rolls and implied it was the federal governments fault if they stayed there.On Jan. 11, DMV director Kevin Shwedo upped the ante with the specific allegation that votes had been cast under the names of deceased individuals. He said that well over 900 individuals appear to have voted in South Carolina after they died.Then Attorney General Wilson again took to Fox News, saying, We know for a fact that there are deceased people whose identities are being used in elections in South Carolina.South Carolina has passed one of the most restrictive voter I.D. laws in the country that could potentially disenfranchise thousands of voters. The Justice Dep't has blocked the law, and the state of South Carolina has filed a lawsuit challenging the DOJ.The lawsuit could cost the state upward of a million dollars or more.