The dead voter conspiracy theory peddled by Trump voters, debunked

Late last week, Students for Trump founder Ryan Fournier declared on social media that he had unearthed definitive proof of widespread voter fraud in Detroit. He pointed to an absentee ballot cast by “118-year-old William Bradley”, a man who had supposedly died in 1984.

“They’re trying to steal the election,” Fournier warned in a since-deleted Facebook post, though the election had already been called for Joe Biden by every major news network days before.

But the deceased Bradley hadn’t voted. Within days, Bradley’s son, also named William Bradley, but with...