Posted on 02/28/2017 10:08:57 PM PST by Perseverando
More than 1,000 people in eight Virginia counties illegally registered to vote, report finds
Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed a bill that would require investigations of jurisdictions in the state whose voter rolls contain more registered voters than citizens who are eligible to vote.
The bill, first introduced by Republican state Sen. Mark D. Obenshain, was prompted by a report that shed light on eight Virginia counties that had more registered voters on their voter rolls than eligible voters.
Obenshain's bill would require "the local electoral boards to direct the general registrars to investigate the list of persons voting at an election whenever the number of persons voting at any election in a county or city exceeds the number of persons registered to vote in that county or city," according to its summary. "The Department of Elections is required to provide certain data to any general registrar conducting such an investigation for the registrar's use during the investigation. The local electoral boards are required to make reports of the findings to the State Board. These reports are public documents."
McAuliffe, who vetoed the bill on Friday, claimed that the bill "would increase the administrative burden on local election officials" in his veto statement.
"By requiring 133 individual general registrars to conduct an investigation of voters under undefined standards, this bill raises serious constitutional questions," McAuliffe said in a statement. "It could expose eligible and properly registered Virginians to the risk of improper disenfranchisement."
"Further, Senate Bill 1105 would increase the administrative burden on local election officials. Rather than imposing unnecessary investigative requirements on those officials, we should focus attention and resources on the Commonwealth’s proven and efficient methods of list maintenance, which serve as a national model."
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an Indiana-based group that litigates to protect election integrity, released the report last year that sparked Obenshain's bill.
PILF's report found 1,046 aliens who were illegally registered to vote in a small sample of eight Virginia counties that responded to its public records requests.
Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the group, said it is reasonable to ask questions about voter rolls with more voters than citizens.
"It is entirely reasonable to ask questions when a voting jurisdiction has more registered voters than citizens," Churchwell told the Washington Free Beacon. "The Justice Department for the past eight years refused to perform similar studies using powers it was already vested with. Virginia lawmakers and private parties like PILF were forced to pick up the slack. It's astonishing to see a sitting governor calculate political blowback when voter roll integrity is at stake."
"As PILF previously reported, these eight problematic jurisdictions had more than 1,000 alien voters removed from the rolls in years past with roughly 20 percent casting ballots before being caught."
"There's smoke, fire, and damage right in front of Governor McAullife's eyes. When will he stop playing politics with Virginians' voting rights?"
Churchwell said that McAuliffe's veto was part of a larger record that prioritized politics over election integrity.
The state board of elections, led by McAuliffe appointees, in 2015 considered changing Virginia's voter registration form to make questions about U.S. citizenship and felon status optional.
McAuliffe vetoed a bill last year that would have required registrars to deny applicants who omitted biographical information about themselves, such as their age, on their voter forms.
In August 2016, McAuliffe cleared 13,000 felons to vote after the state supreme court struck down his previous order restoring the franchise to 206,000 felons.
McAuliffe's office did not immediately return a request for comment.
Of course he did. It’s those illegal and multiple votes that got his ass elected. He’s not stupid.
A democrap scumbag will always act like a democrap scumbag.
Maybe the Feds still can have a look
It’s also why SWMNBN carried Virginia. Her popular vote margin is as big a lie as the Russians getting Trump elected.
Time for the Feds to investigate it.
Blue VA is ‘Rat Stoopid ...
The Democrat Thug Party.
PROOF THAT TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN,,
VOTER FRAUD DOES EXIST AND THE GOV. OF VA VETOES A BILL TO LOOK INTO TO THE FRAUD...GOV. IS SCARED...YA THINK...
DOJ NEEDS TO CHECK THAT STATE OUT...TRUMP ALMOST WON IT...
McAuliffe is usually a shrewd, nasty Democrat Party stormtrooper but what he had done by vetoing this honest voter registration bill is to hand the Republicans the Virginia Senate in the next election as well as to undercut any serious Democrat Party candidates for the high positions.
Thank’s Terry. For once in your crooked, useless life, you’ve done something useful and screwed your Party and friends.
Appreciate your birthday gift to me, and “I don’t need no stinkin’ card”, thank you.
This guy needs to go to jail. Obstruction of justice for this and failure to comply with federal immigration laws.
What did you expect from this Clinton enabler when you elected him?
The RINO excuse is always "we are standing on principal" (the same sort of Lindsey Graham crap they tried to use against President Trump). In Virginia two casualties of this tactic are conservatives Oliver North and Ken Cuccinelli.
Combine that with the huge influx of New York and New Jersey liberals drawn by the proximity to Washington DC and tied to the expansion of the federal government during the Obama years, it has been a nightmare for real Virginians.
Here is the carpetbagger hall of shame,
I think we just found your next topic.
And I heard the new rat regime in NC is not defending voter ID laws in court.
Voter fraud is their #1 priority.
He vetoed a bill to remove unqualified voters, I guess he and other Dems wants to win by fraud not issues - like more freedoms!
The research and documentation should be done by the private sector. Then hand it to law enforcement and prosecutors at all levels.
What does the governor have to do with it? In his official capacity zero. It is a matter for the prosecutors.
Scenario.
Identify the specific laws that define illegal voting.
Identify specific individuals who appear to have voted illegally.
Identify if in fact it was the registered individual who voted illegally...Or someone else who committed identity fraud to vote in the name that was not his.
Identify a specific law enforcement person who is willing to stick his neck out and ARREST or INDICT the law breakers.
Then and only then pressure the County, State and Federal prosecutors to prosecute.
Note. I have done all of the above steps. I have presented the hard evidence, affadavits from all 5 election judges (3 D, 2 R in one case) that fraud was committed, affadavits from registered voters that they had moved far away and in fact did not vote in the precinct where they formerly lived and that someone else (the accused) must have voted using their name.
In all cases I presented, and similar cases that friends presented, neither R nor D prosecutors would prosecute. Neither County, State nor Federal prosecutors would prosecute.
It is almost as if these prosecutors live in the swamp. You have heard of the Blue code where cops wont snitch on each other. Prosecutors (and the entire legal profession) seems to have a code that in order to keep the people’s faith in our democratic process, no hint of election fraud should be allowed credence.
Mcauliffe would carry the same states as HRC and win the popular vote in a presidential election
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