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It's better than stuffing the ballot box. Investors Business Daily picked up the report:
Voter Fraud: When President
Donald Trump brought up the idea that non-citizens were casting ballots in
elections, the reaction was fast and furious. Such a thing, if it exists at
all, is exceedingly rare, we were told. But when one state decided to take a
close look, it found something quite different.
After a yearlong voter-fraud probe,
Texas discovered that, lo and behold, 95,000 people identified as non-citizens
had voter registrations. What's more, 58,000 of them voted in one or more Texas
elections.
When Attorney General Ken Paxton
led the state's investigation, he noted that Texas had already found 165
non-citizens in four counties who had cast 100 illegal votes in two years.
But wait. Isn't all this stuff
about non-citizens voting a load of bull? When Trump appointed a voter-fraud
commission in 2017, Democrats and the press howled in protest.
Sure, Trump almost certainly
exaggerated the number of non-citizen voters. But in response, Time
magazine declared that we "know that ineligible non-citizens do not vote in
American elections." Vox.com, the "explanatory" news site,
derided Trump as "indulging the long-standing myth of the non-citizen
voter." Harvard researchers said that there is "no evidence"
that non-citizens vote.
Less than a year after he put it
together, Trump disbanded his commission, not because it didn't find anything,
but because it faced a fusillade of lawsuits and stonewalling from state
election officials.
More here. What about Ohio? Eric Eggers at Breitbart reported on the
most recent election cycles:
Republican Troy Balderson clings to
a narrow margin in last night’s special election for Ohio’s 12th Congressional
district, underscoring the impact voter fraud can have in key elections around
the country.
The separation of 1700 votes, or
less than one percent, highlights the recent attempt by Democratic activists to
fight efforts to prevent voter fraud from occurring.
For the past four years, George
Soros has spent millions of dollars trying to weaken Ohio’s election security
by funding efforts to both block its implementation of Voter ID and prevent the
state from removing inaccurate registrations.
Soros pledged $5 million to fund Clinton campaign attorney
Marc Elias’s efforts to fight voter ID laws in Ohio and two other states ahead
of the 2016 election.
. . .
Consider that 170 registered voters
listed as being over 116 years old still existed on the rolls of
Ohio’s 12th Congressional when GAI accessed the data last August. That’s 10
percent of Balderson’s current margin of victory, pending provisional ballots.
And 72 voters over the age of 116 who “live” in Balderson’s district cast
ballots in the 2016 election.
But the Left hasn’t given up trying
to create conditions favorable for voter fraud in Ohio. As former Ohio
Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has pointed out, “hyper-partisan liberals…have their eyes
on Ohio.” Electing a Democrat as the state’s top elections official would
undoubtedly roll back the hard-won safeguards Ohio has implemented. And as
Blackwell points out, as goes Ohio, so goes the Presidency.
And it does not look good. Just two days ago, Peter Skurkiss at American Thinker reported:
Ben Stein, a once on-again, off-again
conservative, now associates himself with a left-wing advocacy group called Policy Matters Ohio as a
"staff associate." Stein's affiliation with this
non-profit came to light when he recently authored an opinion piece in the Akron Beacon Journal titled
"Make it automatic for the people."
Make what automatic?
Why, make voter
registration automatic. As if voting laws and policies haven't been
weakened enough, there is now a drive across the country to make voter
registration automatic. It goes under the name Automatic Voter
Registration (AVR), and 15 states have already enacted it in
one form or another.
AVR works basically
like this. When a person has an interaction with a state government
agency (say, Department of Motor Vehicle or a welfare agency), the data he
gives will automatically be transferred to the Election Board. And –
presto – that person is registered to vote, unless choosing to opt out.
Stein is disingenuous
when he says AVR would screen out those ineligible to vote, such as
non-citizens. The fact is, there's no reliable way to ensure that
all registrants are citizens.
Read the rest here.
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