Nothing Says Election Integrity Like a Voter Born in 1903

Topic: Pennsylvania Politics

Aug 07, 2025

🎂 Grandma’s Turning 117? Let’s Talk About the Voter Rolls.

If you've been following Audit The Vote, you’ve likely seen our now infamous “Happy 116th Birthday, Still-Active Voter” graphics floating around. And while some folks think we’re exaggerating or joking…

We’re actually not.
Not even a little.

So let’s break it down—with a little humor, a whole lot of facts, and just enough side-eye to keep it spicy.

🚨 First: No, We Didn't Make Up the Centenarians.

In our latest review of Pennsylvania's voter rolls—thanks to a Cause of America report—we ran 8.8 million voter records through the USPS's NCOA (National Change of Address) and CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System) systems.

Fancy acronyms aside, these are the gold standards for address verification in America. The results?

👉 Hundreds of voters listed as 115 years old or older—still listed as active.

We’re talking full-blown supercentenarians.
Forget Blue Zones… we’ve apparently discovered a whole county where people just don’t die.

🧳 390,000 Voters Who Have Moved

…and no one told the voter rolls.

Let me paint a picture:

161,000+ moved out of state
150,000+ moved within the county but never updated their registration
Nearly 38,000 moved to a different county altogether

But they’re still eligible to vote where they used to live.
That's a buffet of phantom votes just waiting for someone hungry enough to feast.

🏚️ “Nobody Gets Mail There” – USPS

Over 200,000 addresses in the voter file are flagged as places the U.S. Postal Service literally does not deliver mail to.

55,000 = Vacant
47,000 = Likely Undeliverable
2,000+ = UPS Stores or commercial mailboxes
39,000+ = PHANTOM ROUTES — legit USPS term for delivery paths that don’t exist anymore

If the mailman can’t find your house, your ballot probably shouldn’t either.

📦 Oh Look, They Moved… Out of State

Let’s say you’re registered in Pennsylvania but your mailing address is in Arizona.

Cool. Except it’s not—especially when it comes to voting.

Turns out, nearly 30,000 voters have a mailing address in a different state than where they’re registered.

You wouldn’t expect to get jury duty in Texas if you live in Oregon.
Why should we expect that to make sense with ballots?

🎯 So What’s the Point?

We’re not saying Grandma is voting from the grave.

We’re saying Grandma probably hasn’t lived at that address—or lived at all—since the Hoover administration. And yet, her name is still active and eligible to receive a ballot or show up on the rolls.

That’s not voter fraud by itself.
But it is voter fraud waiting to happen.

And that’s why we post the birthday memes.
Because if the government’s not going to clean up the mess, at least we can meme it into the public consciousness.

🧹 Clean Rolls = Clean Elections

If we can’t get the voter rolls right, how can we trust the outcomes?

It’s not complicated:

Dead people shouldn’t be on the rolls.
People who’ve moved should update their registration—or get removed.
Ballots shouldn’t be mailed to vacant lots or PO boxes pretending to be apartments.

It’s common sense.
Which makes it rare, apparently.

🗳️ Want to dig deeper?
The full report is here if you like data, graphs, and long sighs of frustration:
📄 Cause of America PA Automated Report (PDF)

📢 And if you're ready to make memes, not excuses—join the movement.
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Because education is key—and the fix is local.