By Jerry Bellune 
JerryBellune@yahoo.com
Are you concerned about potential voting fraud in the November election?
You have reason to be.
Almost 350,000 dead voters are registered to vote in 41 states, according to an audit by the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
The number is less than the 2 million Pew Research found in the 2012 voting.
In 2016 and 2018, 14,608 people voted from the grave, auditors found.
Lexington County and South Carolina has a better deceased voter system.
County Voter Registration Director Mary Brack told the Chronicle that the Department of Health and Environmental Control lets her know when a voter dies and the name is immediately removed from the registry.
DHEC has a contract with the Election Commission to provide monthly a list of decedents 18 years or older whose state of residence is South Carolina, spokesperson Laura Renwick said.
The information comes from death certificates completed by coroners and medical certifiers that are filed with our Office of Vital Statistics, she said.
Our neighbors in North Carolina led the US in 2016 and 2018 in the number of votes credited to deceased registrants. The 2nd-worst states in both elections registered 3 times fewer votes cast by dead registrants.
With 5 weeks before Election Day, the report casts doubt on mail-in voting. 
Vote-by-mail supporters say it is more essential than ever in 2020 due to concerns about covid-19. 
Opponents say mail-in ballots open the door for fraud and undermine confidence in the election’s results.
 Public Interest Legal Foundation President Christian Adams said, “Partisan advocates have fought for automatic vote-by-mail systems in which all registered voters are sent ballots. 
“These efforts must assume the voter rolls are accurate. They are not.” 
About 100 million voters will receive ballots or ballot request forms in the mail. 
The most populous states tend to have the most deceased registrants on voter rolls, the report found. New York, Texas, Michigan, Florida, and California accounted for 51% of all of the deceased registrants.