Heavy damages for falsely claiming people are dead or emigrated

Dear Editor,
In the current recount of electoral votes, political parties have taken it upon themselves to falsely claim that persons who had died or emigrated had voted, thus committing a criminal offence.
The persons who were falsely claimed to be dead or emigrated were alive or had not emigrated and voted or had not voted.  Could those persons who were alive or who had not emigrated during the elections bring actions before the courts against the political parties and their agents for damages for the pain, loss and being accused of a criminal offence?

Yours sincerely,
Paul Validum Ramlochan