After Wilson made the dead-voters charge in January, the State Election Commission investigated the matter, but was unable to find any evidence of voter fraud, much less zombie voters. Indeed, in 95 percent of the cases, investigators found a much simpler explanation for the discrepancies: human error. Some cases involved mistakes by poll watchers such as marking down that Jim Abott voted instead of Jim Abbott, or simply stray marks that seemed to indicate an individual had voted when he hadnt while others were individuals who voted early and then died before Election Day.
ThinkProgress spoke with Wilson about the matter last week outside Congress. We asked for his reaction to the State Election Commissions finding no evidence of voter fraud nor dead voters, despite his insistence to Fox News that We know for a fact that there are deceased people whose identities are being used in elections in South Carolina. Wilson remained largely unchastened, refusing to concede that the idea of dead voters in South Carolina is a farce. Its premature at this time to say there are no dead voters, Wilson declared. Its my hope there are no deceased voters, but I do hope the General Assembly takes up the issue.
KEYES: So when the election commission says that 95 percent of the cases are simply human error [...]
WILSON: Its my hope there are no deceased voters, but I do hope the General Assembly takes up the issue and updates these archaic rules. .....