Posted on 07/01/2017 11:01:10 AM PDT by John Semmens
Efforts by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to obtain data that could provide evidence on whether vote fraud has occurred are being blocked by key Democratic officials at the state level.
Neither the fact that there have been academic studies indicating that as many as five million or more non-citizens have voted and that there are millions of individuals registered to vote in more than one state and despite some irregularitiesincluding more votes cast than registered voters in some precincts in last Novembers electionwere viewed as sufficient cause for any investigation by Virginias Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe.
I cannot abide mucking about in the voter registration database unless someone comes forward with definitive proof that fraud has been committed, the Governor said. Mere suspicion is not enough to warrant the intrusion into voters privacy that the Commissions information request would entail. This is just another Republican attempt to suppress the vote.
Californias Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla rejected the Commissions request for registration data on Fifth Amendment grounds. Lets say that some non-citizens did vote or that some voters voted more than once, Padilla hypothesized. These would be crimes, as would the actions of state registrars that aided, abetted, or ignored these illegal acts. I am not going to voluntarily participate in a probe that would effectively result in self-incrimination.
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state serving as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity called the non-cooperative responses disappointing. If there truly has been no vote fraud, as the Democrats contend, our investigation should confirm that. The charge that we are trying to suppress the vote is a ridiculous allegation totally lacking evidence.
McAuliffe pounced on Kobachs claim, calling it illogical. Presumably, the GOP would strive to eliminate duplicate registrations and purge non-citizens from the rolls. Obviously, such actions would reduce the number of ballots cast. So, for them to try to deny that their actions wont suppress the vote is clearly a lie.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://azconservative.org/2017/07/01/dems-vow-to-obstruct-vote-fraud-investigation/
If these governors thought that it was Republicans who were voting numerous times or voting illegally, they’d turn over this stuff faster than you can say Cook County. But they know these records will reveal that democrats have a system in place to commit massive voter fraud and they will never voluntarily submit it to an investigation.
This is the equivalent of a State taking the fifth.
These are the 20 states that need to be scrutinized the most. They just outed themselves.
I am suggesting that all of my like minded Washingtontonians who find this refusal to aid the investigation into even the potential of voter fraud unacceptable (not to mention illegal in and of itself), to do the same!
Sincerely,
Patriotic Washingtonian!
Executive Order -- Establishment of the Presidential Commission of Election Administration
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