Smokin' Joe Frazier Among 22 Dead People Who Still Vote In Philly

By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net

Smokin' Joe Frazier, the city's most famous boxer, may have died on Nov. 7, 2011. But he still lives on at the polls.

In 2018, according to city records, the former heavyweight champ voted in the general election in his adopted hometown.

On city records that provide a "detailed inquiry" on voters, they got Smokin' Joe's birthdate right, Jan. 12, 1944. In a touch of nostalgia, the records also list Frazier's address as 2917 N. Broad Street. That's the location of the old Smokin' Joe's Gym, the three-story converted brick warehouse where, in the 1970s, Frazier trained for all of three of his championship fights against Muhammed Ali, while living in an apartment on the third floor. 

Frazier leads a parade of 22 dead people, who according to city records gathered by Big Trial, miraculously came back to life to vote in past Philadelphia elections. Others on the list that's been uncovered so far include seven hero cops who died in the line of duty, a murdered community activist, and 11 dead relatives of cops. 

The other celebrities on the list to date is Will Smith's late father, Willard Carroll Smith Sr., who died on Nov. 7, 2016, but still managed to vote in the 2017 and 2018 general elections. 

And Anna Henderson, the oldest living person in Pennsylvania, who died on July 1, 2014, at the ripe old age of 114. But, according to city records, she still managed to vote in the 2017 and 2018 general elections, when she would have been 117 and 118 years old respectively.

Going by the brazenness of these examples, it's a safe bet that there may be more, many more, dead people voting in Philadelphia elections. 

It's a voter fraud scandal that comes at a time when the attention of the nation is riveted on Philadelphia, where the board of elections is still counting mail order ballots cast in the presidential election. 

Big Trial has attempted to reach city officials for comment on what appears to be voter fraud, but so far, Lisa Deeley, chairwoman of the city Board of Elections, Vice-Chair Al Schmidt, and Secretary Omar Sabir, have not responded to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is in town to monitor the vote. At a press conference, Giuliani attacked the "Democratic crooked machine of Philadelphia" that he says is in the process of stealing an election. 

Philadelphia, Giuliani said at a press conference here, not only "has a reputation for voter fraud" but also has "a reputation for dead people voting. And we're gonna look at just how many dead people voted here," Giuliani promised.

"Your know theses big city machines are crooked," Giuliani said at a press conference outside the Civic Center, after the Trump team got a court order that permitted them to watch the vote counting being conducted by the city's Board of Elections.

Giuliani's primary focus is "highly suspicious mail-in ballots . . . that could be from Mars," or from the Democratic National Committee, or from Camden, he said. When one political party controls the same town for, say 68 years, Giuliani said, as has happened in Philadelphia, and, "You own the media, you think you can do anything you want."

"You think we're stupid. You think we're fools?" Giuliani asked rhetorically at his Philadelphia press conference. "We're not gonna let them get away with it. We're not gonna let them steal the election."

In the spirit of draining the swamp, Big Trial invites the former New York City mayor, and the U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia, to take a look at these dead people who are still voting in Philadelphia.

The list includes seven hero cops:

-- Officer Moses Walker, who was robbed and shot to death in 2012 while walking to a bus stop after he finished his night shift at the city's 22nd Police District. According to city records, despite being dead, Walker voted in the 2018 general election.

-- Officer Brian Lorenzo, a motorcycle cop killed in 2012 by a drunk driver going the wrong way on I-95. But after he died, according to city records, Lorenzo voted in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 general elections.

-- Officer Paris Williams, who died in 2005 after suffering a heart attack while scuffling with protesters outside the Philadelphia Convention Center. But after his death, Williams managed to vote in the primary and general elections of 2016, the 2017 general election, and both the primary and general elections in 2018.

 -- Officer Gary Skerski, who was shot and killed in 2006 while responding to an armed robbery at a cafe. But after he died, Skerski voted in the 2015 primary, the 2016 primary and general elections, and the 2018 general election.

-- Sgt. Timothy Simpson, who was killed in 2008 when his patrol car was hit by a vehicle operated by a drunk driver. But Simpson still voted in the 2015 primary election, and the general elections in 2017 and 2018. 

-- Officer Charles "Chuck" Cassidy, who was gunned down in 2007 after he interrupted a robbery in a doughnut shop. But after his death, Cassidy came back to vote in the 2015 general election, the primary and general elections in 2016 and 2017, and the general election in 2018.

-- Officer Douglas Bamberger, who suffered a heart attack at the Criminal Justice Center and died on Oct. 16, 2016, but still managed to vote in the 2016 primary, and in primary and general elections in 2018.

Also on the list is Gerard Grandzol, a community activist, who was shot to death on Sept. 17, 2017, in front of his two-year-old daughter during a robbery. But according to city records, Grandzol voted in the Nov. 7, 2017 and 2018 general elections.

In addition, Big Trial has gathered the records of 11 dead relatives of police officers, who have been voting in primary and general elections in recent years. The list of these private individuals includes three mothers, two fathers, three grandfathers, a grandmother, and a father-in-law. 

While good government types like Philadelphia lawyer Marc Stier have emailed me to say that this can't possibly be happening in Philadelphia, an old pro gave an interview yesterday where he declared that voter fraud in Democratic controlled big cities is a "time honored tradition."

In an interview with Newsmax, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who did time for corruption before being pardoned by Trump, asked rhetorically, "If the question is, 'Are Democrats stealing votes in Philadelphia?' my answer is, Is the Pope Catholic?"

"It's a time-honored tradition in big, Democrat-controlled cities like Chicago, and my hometown, Philadelphia, to do precisely what they're doing," the former governor said. And then he went on to explain precisely how that's done.

"They control polling places, they stop votes when their candidate's behind, and then in wee hours in the morning, in the dark of night, the stealing starts."

And that's when the dead come back to life to cast their votes for Democrats:

Any more tips about the dead voting in Philadelphia? Ralph Cipriano can be reached at ralph@bigtrial.net.