Posted on 12/03/2016 5:52:11 AM PST by KeyLargo
Do Illegal Votes Decide Elections?
There’s no way to know. But the evidence suggests that significant numbers of noncitizens cast ballots.
By Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund
Donald Trump’s claim that illegal voting may have cost him a popular-vote majority has touched off outrage. Widespread voter fraud, the media consensus suggests, isn’t possible. But there is a real chance that significant numbers of noncitizens and others are indeed voting illegally, perhaps enough to make up the margin in some elections.
There’s no way of knowing for sure. The voter-registration process in almost all states runs on the honor system. The Obama administration has done everything it can to keep the status quo in place. The Obama Justice Department has refused to file a single lawsuit to enforce the requirement of the National Voter Registration Act that states maintain the accuracy of their voter-registration lists. This despite a 2012 study from the Pew Center on the States estimating that one out of every eight voter registrations is inaccurate, out-of-date or duplicate. About 2.8 million people are registered in more than one state, according to the study, and 1.8 million registered voters are dead. In most places it’s easy to vote under the names of such people with little risk of detection.
An undercover video released in October by the citizen-journalist group Project Veritas shows a Democratic election commissioner in New York City saying at a party, “I think there is a lot of voter fraud.” A second video shows two Democratic operatives mulling how it would be possible to get away with voter fraud.
The Justice Department has opposed every effort by states—such as Kansas, Arizona, Alabama and Georgia—to verify the citizenship of those registering to vote. This despite evidence that noncitizens are indeed registering and casting ballots.
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That's a pretty bold claim.
Until you consider democrats belief that they and they alone are the pillars of decency in the world.
What they believe is the the only proper way to think and act. As such, any and all policies toward that end are justified. And the rest of us are crap.
” Stewart Mills (R) Drops Recount in Close Congressional Race with Rick Nolan (D)” ...
Gee, only 2009 votes. Doesn't imply voter fraud matters at all, does it?
DFL Rick Nolan 179,097 50.17
Republ Stewart Mills 177,088 49.61
We better solve the problem of illegal voting or we’ll be looking at President Chelsea Clinton some day.
Which would include modification of Birthright Citizenship: your parents have to be here legally for you to be a citizen at birth.
Which would mean that ONLY people we invited in get to bless their children with citizenship in the United States.
And therefore eventually vote.
“Do Illegal Votes Decide Elections?”
Not yet, but if we do away with the Electoral College, they will.
There are about 11.5 Million Illegals in the U.S.
3 Million of them live in California
1.2 Million of them live in L.A. County
Clinton won California by 3.5 million votes.
1.5 million in L.A. County alone (which means that she actually lost the other 49 states by about 1.5 million).
That means that the county of L.A. alone would have negated the popular results of 49 STATES! if the popular vote was how we chose the President. Unless my math is bad.
Thanks for the good post and a good starter set of solutions. I fear that more is required than leaving it up to states that “want to verify the citizenship of registered voters”, at least for federal elections. The worst problems are in states where the “ins” clearly do not want to curtail fraud of any sort, because they proper from cheating. With Republican House and Senate Majorities, and a President to sign reasonable legislation, I see no reason we can’t have federal legislation requiring states to enforce citizenship requirements rigorously, or lose their ability to participate in federal elections. Much of the Motor Voter bill should be repealed, and we need penalties for registration and voting fraud sufficient to act as a deterrent. Reigning in registration and voting on behalf of the mentally incapable is another goal, though one hard to achieve without danger of undesirable abuses.
Can you say President Ellison? I can’t.
“President Trump should appoint a special commission, during the first days of his administration, to investigate voter fraud, apprehend and prosecute those guilty and complicit thereof, and take measure to prevent its ever happening again. Consequences must be swift, certain, and severe.”
Yes, the sooner the better.
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Vote Fraud Group Supports Trump’s Claim on Illegal Voters
Kristinn Taylor Nov 28th, 2016 6:44 am 97 Comments
True the Vote, a group dedicated to rooting out vote fraud, issued a statement supporting the charge by President-Elect Donald Trump that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election.
HOUSTON, TX. – November 27, 2016: True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today released a statement with respect to President-Elect Donald Trump’s claim that “millions” of individuals illegally voted in the 2016 Election.
“True the Vote absolutely supports President-elect Trump’s recent comment about the impact of illegal voting, as reflected in the national popular vote. We are still collecting data and will be for several months, but our intent is to publish a comprehensive study on the significant impact of illegal voting in all of its many forms and begin a national discussion on how voters, states, and the Trump Administration can best address this growing problem.”
True the Vote (TTV) is an IRS-designated 501(c)(3) voters’ rights organization, founded to inspire and equip voters for involvement at every stage of our electoral process. TTV empowers organizations and individuals across the nation to actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation. For more information, please visit www.truethevote.org.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/vote-fraud-group-supports-trumps-claim-illegal-voters/
I'd say Arizona should be allowed to go first. Taxpayers here had to pay for lawsuits brought by Holder and Lynch that took down our ability to determine the citizenship of people voting in our elections.
Restore our photo voter ID law. Re-institute 1070.
The challenge with that is that there are citizens with limited or no mobility (especially infirm seniors) who simply can't make it in person to register.
I don't know what the solution is, but that is a problem.
BTW, my daughter was eligible to vote for the first time in the election. I took her to our local town hall to register. The registration form had a check box stating that the registering applicant is a citizen. But absolutely no proof at all was required.
I think anybody found to have checked the citizen box without being a citizen ought to be subject to fines, prison and deportation. An advertising program informing people of that will certainly cut down on such fraudulent behavior. Obama didn't help by publicly telling illegals that there would be no consequences for voting as a non-citizen.
Yes, among the malevolent whose defeat leaves them nothing but jeers and sneers.
"Widespread voter fraud, the media consensus suggests, isn’t possible."
Yes, so says the malevolent consensus that predicted Donald Trump's defeat.
"But there is a real chance that significant numbers of noncitizens and others are indeed voting illegally, perhaps enough to make up the margin in some elections."
Indeed, in fact President Barack Obama and others holding public office actually encouraged illegal immigrants to vote fraudulently.
“Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of Houston-based voters rights and election integrity organization True the Vote, said there aren’t enough firewalls in place in California, which she said has a more “porous” system than other states.
“They do offer non-citizens a way to get a drivers’ license and that comes part and parcel with the opportunity to vote,” Engelbrecht said. “Couple that to the fact that they don’t have to show an ID at the polls and it sets a tone for a potential free-for-all.”
She asserted that the upcoming motor-voter law will only exacerbate the problem.”
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/30/trump-and-vote-fraud-officials-say-its-just-not-happening/
Catherine Engelbrecht: Voter Fraud Has Been ‘Institutionalized,’ Allowing Non-Citizen Voters to ‘Flood Our Rolls’
by John Hayward 29 Nov 2016
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True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss accusations of voter fraud in the 2016 election, including President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion that millions of ballots were cast by people who were not legally allowed to vote.
“You know what? I think we don’t really know,” Engelbrecht said of Trump’s allegation. “We put out a statement shortly after the President-elect’s comments came out, and we said that we support the belief that there could, in fact, have been millions of illegally cast votes, and we are doing tremendous amounts of research to try to get to some of those answers.”
“We set ourselves up, Alex, in a system where for a long time, nobody’s wanted to get answers, so questions haven’t been allowed to be asked,” she told Marlow. “That’s the paradigm that we now have to shatter.”
Marlow noted that while some illegal votes are certainly cast in every election, Trump’s dramatic claim of millions in 2016 was very broad. He asked Engelbrecht if she thought the number could really be that high.
“I think so, yes,” she replied. “And here’s why I think that: When we talk about fraud in sound bites, we often sort of get caught up in, oh, you know, the dead are voting, people are being bused in. Do those things happen, and are those all worthy of debate? Absolutely. But the real problem that we face is that fraud has been institutionalized. We have set up processes that allow for non-citizens, among other ways, but non-citizens certainly to flood into our rolls. And that’s just one of the ways that we set ourselves up with the potential for illegal votes.”
“I think that we are at a place now where we have an opportunity to have a sane conversation about the deconstruction of our process and the examination of the sieve that we’ve created and better ways to go forward,” she said.
Marlow criticized corporate media outlets, particularly CNN, for dismissing Trump’s allegation out of hand, without doing any research and without reminding their readers of notorious ballot hijinks from the past.
Yes, there are always exceptions. But lots of people end up not being able to vote for one reason or another & I’d rather be strict on the side of making sure only legal citizens do so. We have ADA rules to make sure gov’t buildings in particular can accommodate the disabled. My husband is a submarine guy, & they’d be under water for three months at a time - out too long to even get an absentee ballot. And our military are regularly disenfranchised. If they can’t be accommodated, then I’d rather make sure illegals don’t take up the slack.
Philad Louis. Detroit. Milwaukee. Saint Louis. Lax. SF. NYC. Etc. no more republicans. Communist/islamonazi dictatorship here we come.
Of course. OBVIOUSLY Obama and the rest of the Democrats have been depending on voter fraud to keep them in power and increase their power until they can reach the point at which they are the only ones in power.
This too is obvious prima facie. This is a fundamental part of the malevolent, corrupt conspiracy of the Left--a coup d'état--of which the Democrat Party and its operatives are an integral part.
It was in counter-reaction to this that Donald Trump was elected to the Presidency.
It was in counter-reaction to this that he sought the Presidency, observing that he did so, not because he wanted to but because he had to.
SOMEBODY had to!!!
It is a blessing, a miracle, and a gift from God that enough Americans were aware of what's been going on to elect this HERO to the Presidency and thus save America.
He must take measures--and he must receive sufficient support--to assure that this evil conspiracy to stage a Leftist coup d'état and seize permanent control of the U.S.A. be permanently defeated--and that a stake be driven through its dark heart so that it can never arise again to threaten the Republic.
Assurances against voter fraud are essential.
If the truth be known—and perhaps it shall be—with the elimination of voter fraud, Trump’s victory was truly a landslide and a majority of all legal votes cast.
“I’d say Arizona should be allowed to go first. Taxpayers here had to pay for lawsuits brought by Holder and Lynch that took down our ability to determine the citizenship of people voting in our elections. Restore our photo voter ID law. Re-institute 1070.”
Good point and an excellent suggestion.
Yes. Thanks, KeyLargo. The quote from the movie concerning voter fraud is a classic.
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