Philly Officials Dispel Rumors Of Dead People Voting

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia officials have dispelled rumors of deceased Philadelphians casting ballots in the general election.

The Philadelphia City Commissioners have had a tough week as they work to count all the mail-in ballots in the city. City Commissioner Al Schmidt recently told "60 Minutes" the elections office had been getting phone calls with veiled death threats.

And now, officials say they have received allegations of deceased Philadelphians voting. That is not the case, according to city commissioner spokesman Kevin Feeley.

Feeley said each allegation of a dead person voting has come back unfounded.

"Two recent examples alleged that Joe Frazier and Will Smith’s father, both deceased, voted on Election Day — and both were proved not true," Feeley said in an email to Patch. "In each case, the review was conducted by checking the active voter rolls."

Frazier died in 2011 and Smith in 2016.

CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins tweeted that Schmidt said officials looked up each allegation of deceased residents voting.

"Not a single one voted in Philadelphia after they died," Schmidt said.

The developments comes as President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in eight Pennsylvania counties in an effort to block the election results.

As of 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Philadelphia has 8,406 outstanding mail-in ballots.