The Double Voting Problem

The Daily Signal ^ | January 24, 2020 | Hans von Spakovsky and Kaitlynn Samalis-Aldrich

[karpov]

It’s 2020, which means election year is upon us. And although Washington is currently preoccupied with the impeachment melodrama going on in the Senate, we should not lose sight of problems in our voter registration and election process that imperil the integrity of upcoming local, state, and federal elections.

When our citizens exercise their right to choose their leaders, their votes shouldn’t be diluted or stolen through fraud or administrative errors.

Unfortunately, that remains a problem, as demonstrated by the proven cases in The Heritage Foundation’s election fraud database. We recently added 18 instances of election fraud to the database, which contains a sampling of almost 1,300 fraud cases from across the country.

There are other cases the database does not yet include but that should concern everyone.

Paul Pate, the Iowa secretary of state, recently referred nine Iowans to Polk County prosecutors for double voting in the 2018 election—that is, voting in Iowa and another state in the same election. Another 27 suspected occurrences of double voting are under investigation.

These problems were discovered through the state’s participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center program. Currently, 25 states and the District of Columbia are enrolled in the program, which allows states to compare voter registration information.

Unfortunately, not enough states are participating in either the Electronic Registration Information Center program or the similar Interstate Crosscheck program. New York and California, the states with the largest voting populations, are not in either program. Some states that do participate don’t do anything with the reports they receive on possible double voters. So it is still relatively easy to vote illegally in more than one state without getting caught or prosecuted.

As Pate correctly said, “One fraudulent vote is too many. It nullifies a legally cast vote.

[karpov]

Von Spakovsky co-authored the book Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012) and is a a former member of the Federal Election Commission.

[frank ballenger]

If ever they needed an updated new edition and to get on top talk shows and radio, this is the book.

RE: post:
Von Spakovsky co-authored the book Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (2012).

Full disclosure: see my tagline. A big hobby horse for me. But important one.

[KierkegaardMAN]

knowing that the corruption is so deep and so Insidious this is something I’ve been talking about for the last two or three years on this website.

[spintreebob]

Quote: But Illinois has long had a problem with aliens registering and voting,

Any proof of this? My experience in Illinois, which was mostly in areas with heavy non-citizen population, is that political patronage employees and contractors voted in the name of others who they guessed would not show up and vote. They voted mostly in the name of movers. But occasionally the name of a dead person or non-citizen was used.

Heritage is not taken seriously by those who know vote fraud because the do not understand what actually happens.

Heritage needs to go after political patronage, usually a local form of the deep state.

[upchuck]

You can be the farm the rats are doing everything they can to insure the defeat of President Trump.

Let’s hope those in charge are busting chops to see this election is a fraud free as possible.

If not, I’m afraid President Trump may be in trouble despite the glamorous victories in his plan.

[mosesdapoet]

Just been told Dodge county Beaver Dam WDOT offices opened with long lines of suspected illegals today Sat 1/18/20 before Monday holiday and are handing out free Wisconsin Voter ID’s . Place loaded with signs reading no birth certificates required.