Who knew that dead voters were all Democrats?

If you work in an office or anywhere there are other people around, I suggest you start a company pool. Collect $5 from every worker and have them select the date on which Alternative President Donald Trump stops claiming he won the popular vote.

Someone might get lucky soon and win a pot of money, but there is also a risk that he will never stop saying that at least once a day and no one will ever win the cash.

Just yesterday – in Day 6 of his presidency – Trump told ABC News that dead people, illegal aliens and dual registrants kept him from beating Hillary Clinton in the popular vote count. I can’t tell if he truly believes this or not, but it makes him look crazy all the same.

Here’s part of the interview:

TRUMP: You have people who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states—you have people registered in two states. They’re registered in New York and in New Jersey, and they vote twice. There are millions of votes, in my opinion.

DAVID MUIR of ABC News: When you say "in your opinion" and "millions of illegal votes," that is something that is extremely fundamental to our functioning democracy, a fair and free election. Now, what you have presented so far has been debunked. It has been called false…

TRUMP: Take a look at the Pew reports…

MUIR: I called the author of the Pew report last night and he told me that they found no evidence of voter fraud.

TRUMP: Really? Then why did he write the report?

MUIR: He said, "No evidence of voter fraud."

TRUMP: Excuse me. Then why did he write the report? He’s groveling. You know, I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear, or have to hear.

Does that sound like someone who is fully in command of his faculties?

If you’re still not convinced, here’s the craziest part:

TRUMP: I will say this – of those votes cast, none of them come to me. They would all be for the other side. None of them come to me. But when you look at the people that are registered, dead, illegal, and two states, and some cases maybe three states? We have a lot to look into.

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Let that sink in for a minute... There is widespread voter fraud in Trump’s America – maybe as many as five million illegal voters – and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM VOTED FOR HILLARY CLINTON. What are the odds?

To put this whole dead voter nonsense into perspective, my mother died in 2004 in West Virginia and no one from my family called the County Clerk’s office to report it. A month later, however, her death certificate arrived at the elections office and she was purged from the voter rolls. No one ever tried to vote using my dead mother’s name. Even if that hadn’t happened, she would have been purged after missing two presidential elections.

I lived in Pennsylvania 13 years ago and when I moved, I didn’t call the Board of Elections, so for a short period of time I may have been registered in more than one state. Under the Pennsylvania Voter Registration Act, however, I would have automatically become “inactive” on the registration list if I didn't vote for five consecutive years, and purged completely if I didn’t vote in either of the next two Federal Elections. I did neither.

Before that, I lived in Maryland, which dropped me as a voter some time after I moved. They couldn't say exactly when, but if that hadn't happened, they would have purged my name automatically after I failed to vote in four presidential elections. I called there today and, guess what? I was no longer registered to vote in Maryland.

I will admit that theoretically, in 2008, I might have been able to vote in West Virginia, driven up to Butler County, Pa., and tried to vote there and then slid on over to Washington County, Md., and attempted to vote a third time. It wouldn’t have worked, however, because if I recall correctly, they ask for your address when you vote to make sure you're in the right precinct, and the people who bought our houses were living at our previous addresses.

It is a fact that between the years 2004 and 2008, there were some dead voters who cast ballots in Maryland, according to the watchdog group Election Integrity. Total number of dead voters statewide during those five years: 2.

I don’t know what Trump is trying to accomplish with this latest crusade about voter fraud but two possibilities come to mind. One is that his narcissistic personality disorder will never allow him to accept that he received fewer votes than Crooked Hillary Clinton.

The second, more ominous possibility, is that he will use an “investigation” into voter fraud as an excuse to push more stringent voter ID laws in battleground states so that by the time he’s up for re-election, there won’t be enough African American, Latino or student voters left to keep blue states blue.

Most likely, both possibilities are true.