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On Aug. 18, 2012, Police Officer Moses Walker was robbed and shot to death as he was walking to a bus stop after he finished his night shift at the city's 22nd Police District.
But according to city voting records, that didn't stop Walker from voting in the 2018 general election.
On July 8, 2012, Police Officer Brian Lorenzo was riding his Highway Patrol motorcycle when he was killed by a drunk driver going the wrong way on I-95.
But after he died, according to city voting records, Lorenzo miraculously voted in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 general elections.
On Sept. 17, 2017, Gerard Grandzol, a community activist, was shot to death in front of his two-year-old daughter during a robbery.
But according to city voting records, that didn't stop Grandzol from voting in the Nov. 7, 2017 and 2018 general elections.
Lisa Deeley, chairwoman of the city Board of Elections, did not immediately respond to a request for comment; neither did board Vice-Chair Al Schmidt, or Secretary Omar Sabir.
The commissioners were busy counting some 350,000 mail ballots in the presidential election, where Philadelphia and the Keystone State may have a big say in determining who becomes president.
Schmidt told WHYY this morning that when it came to counting the votes, "It's more important to do it right rather than meet artificial deadlines."
"We're pushing out the results as quickly as we can. We're not holding back," Schmidt told WHYY.
Voter fraud in Philadelphia is nothing new.
In July, the feds charged Michael "Ozzie" Myers, a former U.S. Congressman, with eight counts of bribing a poll worker to stuff the ballot boxes with fraudulent votes for specific candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections.
Myers spent three years in prison in the early 1980s after he was convicted of attempting to bribe a phony sheik offering cash in exchange for political favors in the FBI's infamous Abscam investigation.
"Money talks in this business and bullshit walks," Myers told the FBI during a sting operation where he was caught on camera taking a $50,000 bribe.
In 2016, 6ABC found 20 cases of the dead voting in Philadelphia. When Elections Commissioner Schmidt was interviewed by the TV station, he said the votes were the results of mistakes. Some voters who were alive were mistakenly listed on death rolls, Schmidt said. Other voters with names similar to dead people erroneously signed oting records in the wrong spot.
"There is no voter fraud in these cases," Schmidt told the TV station.
This year, the FBI is known to be looking into the case of how a Philadelphia man with full dementia who was living in a city nursing home was able to vote, both while he was sick with dementia, as well as after he died.
It's one of three cases of dead people voting that the FBI is known to be looking at, a source familiar with the investigation told Big Trial.
Commissioners Deeley, Schmidt and Sabir did not respond to a request for comment on whether any dead people had voted for Joe Biden for president.