So I was trying to find the correct zip code for a dead person in Michigan to see if they had voted. During this, I was on a genealogy/family tree website looking for family address. I came across a FOIA request that contained the entire Michigan Voter Registration database. I downloaded the file, it was 700 megabytes, and extracted to 2 gigabytes. It is a .CSV file and I don't have the software to open it. So I started messing with the URL and by deleting some of the extended URL, shortened it down, I found THIS ONLINE SEARCHABLE database.
So I used a few obituary sites in Michigan to find old dead people that died in the last couple years. Then looked them up on the database of voter registration. I think this may be the key to finding dead people voting.
This below is the online searchable database but it is DATA FROM MARCH 2020
The main site, with full URL has a download for a .CVS file with October 2020 data. Here > https://michiganvoters.info/download.html
Searchable Obituaries from Detroit by name https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/local/michigan/detroit/lastname/A
How convenient. A list of registered voter names, birth year, and voter ID numbers. Iām sure no one would have used this for nefarious purposes.
It's not complete. I searched for family that I know are registered and they didn't show up
I added the full URL, I used to find the searchable. You are correct, the searchable is data from March 2020.
Here this one at bottom says, October 2020
https://michiganvoters.info/download.html
Do you mean .csv ? Comma separated values can be opened with any spreadsheet program (ms Excel, open office, Google sheets...) Or even opened with a text editor like notepad.
Where can I find out if my dead relatives voted?
what does that even mean? seems suspect?
So the new guy cannot save the world?
Yes he Can! Good job Pede, carry on with our (at least my) blessings.