Probably the single biggest threat to the future of the United
States as we know it is election fraud. Recently on Fox News Channel’s “Fox
& Friends Weekends,” Government Accountability Institute research director
Eric Eggers explained if vote-by-mail was done on a mass scale that would bring
“voter role irregularities into play.” Via Pam Key at Breitbart:
According to Eggers, “a lawsuit
found 30,000 more registered voters than citizens of legal age. They
also found 2500 dead people that were registered to vote in the city
of Detroit. This is actually a problem nationwide. The U.S. Supreme Court
in a decision last decade cited statistics that said one in eight
voter registrations in this country -- that’s 24 million -- have significant problems or [are] completely inaccurate.
So it’s not just limited to Detroit. But I think we’re wise to be – to use the term from the congressman in the previous segment . . . concerned because you have to remember in 2016, Donald Trump won the state of Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes. So if you start talking about more than 30,000 registered voters and citizens of legal voting age in the city of Detroit alone, I think that’s pretty concerning.”
So it’s not just limited to Detroit. But I think we’re wise to be – to use the term from the congressman in the previous segment . . . concerned because you have to remember in 2016, Donald Trump won the state of Michigan by fewer than 11,000 votes. So if you start talking about more than 30,000 registered voters and citizens of legal voting age in the city of Detroit alone, I think that’s pretty concerning.”
. . . there is a difference between
people voluntarily choosing to cast a mail-in ballot as by the
way 1 million people in the state of Michigan choose to do
regularly and mailing everyone a ballot as they are doing in
California or as they are about to do in the state of Michigan, mail
everyone an absentee ballot request form. What it does brings all
these voter role irregularities into play. Now you’ve got the
guaranteed likelihood of people who shouldn’t be receiving a ballot,
people that aren’t real voters because they have either moved or dead
or, you know, they are on the roll erroneously those people will now
have the opportunity or request forms will go to addresses for
those people. And we know that there are forces out there attempting
to sway elections. Look at what happened in Philadelphia recently. An
elections judge was just charged with literally stuffing the ballot
box. So, it’s not as if, you know, the idea that people are trying to
sway elections illegally haven’t been proven. We saw one literally just
this week in a major American city.”
BizPacReview reported on another voter fraud settlement:
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania —
home to the city of Pittsburgh and its surrounding suburbs — has settled a
lawsuit directing officials to clean up voter registration rolls.
County officials settled the suit
on Monday with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, which focuses on election
integrity, after the Allegheny election manager and three board of elections
members were sued over registration rolls containing duplicate entries and the
names of persons who had died, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Representatives of the elections
watchdog said researchers discovered almost 1,600 dead registrants, nearly
7,500 with erroneous data, and more than 1,500 who were older than 100 years —
including 49 who were born in the 1800s.
. . .
Last year Judicial Watch won a lawsuit against the state of
California which required it to purge 1.5 million inactive voters from its
registration rolls, as required by federal voter registration law.
“Los Angeles County has a
registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population,” the watchdog
group noted in a statement in January 2019. “The entire State of California has
a registration rate of about 101 percent of its age-eligible citizenry.”
There have been many instances of
voter registration ‘errors’ discovered since Trump’s 2016 win, including in Ohio, where, again, scores of people
listed as being well over 100 years old were discovered on registration rolls.
So safeguarding future elections is no longer mostly about
poll-watching. The guidelines prepared
by Judicial Watch had several sections on what citizens could do as
poll-watchers, but with mail-in voting already a precedent in Ohio, Cleveland
Tea Party members may ask what else can be done?
My next blog will share Judicial Watch’s section on cleaning
up voter rolls by researching voter registration.
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