debra jean christianson is a registered voter.he trump campaign and fox news host tucker carlson falsely claim her vote was fraudulent, saying she died last week. well, there is a debra jean christianson who passed away, but it isn't her. the vote was legally passed by a woman who is very much alive, and happens to share her name. they were both born in the same year and month, but on a different day. cnn's amara walker is following this for us. cnn spoke with debra jean christianson yesterday, tell us what she said about all of this? >> reporter: well, she said she had no idea her name was being used to spread false claims of voter fraud by the trump campaign, but she was taking all of this in stride, though he did say, look, this is ridiculous and not surprised that the trump campaign would resort to this. she also admitted she voted for trump in 2016, but over the past four years she's become disillusioned by his presidency, including his handling of the pandemic, so in 2020 this presidential election, she said she voted for jo

last week the trump campaign alleged that a vote cast by a woman named deborah jean christianson was fraudulent because she died last year. that is completely false. false. the vote was legally cast by a living woman who also happens to be named deborah jean christianson, okay? and she joins me now. hi, deborah, thanks so much for joining me. you doing okay? >> i'm good, thank you. >> marietta, georgia. i miss georgia. i miss living down in atlanta. listen, so i'm sorry that you're dealing with this. when did you learn about this baseless claim of voter fraud? >> last night when a cnn reporter showed up at my door. >> that was it? >> yeah, that was the first time. >> what did you think? >> huh? >> what did you think? >> i just like -- i didn't know what to think. it's like, yeah, i'm alive. and i don't know what's going on here, but it was not voter fraud. >> what did they say to you, deborah? >> he said that there was a deborah jean christianson that lived in -- actually, it was fulton county, apparently, and passed away last year. and trump -- and i understood later on, too -- i un

the vote was legally cast by a living woman who also happens to be debra jean christianson. and she joins me now. hi debra. you doing okay? mariana, georgia. i miss georgia. i miss living in atlanta. so, listen, i'm so sorry you're dealing with this. when did you learn about this baseless claim of voter fraud? >> last night when a cnn reporter showed up at my door. >> that was it? >> yeah, that was the first time. >> what did you think? >> huh? >> what did you think? >> i just -- i didn't know what to think. it's like, yeah, i'm alive and i don't know what's going on here, but it was not voter fraud. >> what did they say to you, deborah? >> they said that there was a deborah jean christianson that lived in -- actually it was fulton county, apparently, and passed away last year. and trump -- and i understood later on too that -- and i understand this has been going on since november 11th, which i didn't know -- anyway that on fox news or something they were talking about this and my name on there or whatever that i was voting with this woman's name and it was voter fraud. and