Study Shows More Registered Voters than Adult Citizens [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 27 August 2017 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Data from the U.S. Census Bureau analyzed by Judicial Watch's Election Integrity Project found that there are 3.5 million more registered voters in America than there are citizens if voting age. More than 40% of these "ghost voters" were found in two California counties—700,000 in Los Angeles County and 800,000 in San Diego County.

Of course, not every citizen eligible to vote actually registers to vote. So, the potential over-registration is even larger than these figures imply. The potential for election fraud would seem to be huge. Nevertheless, Democrats adamantly deny that any significant fraud is taking place. The Brennan Center for Justice contends that it has conclusively proven that allegations of widespread fraud are "baseless." And the New York Times asserts that "there is essentially no voter fraud in America."

Given the confidence that Democratic partisans have that there is no election fraud it is puzzling that they hold such animosity toward President Trump's Election Integrity Panel. If the evidence is so overwhelmingly against the idea that fraud exists wouldn't the Panel end up confirming their contention?

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla rejected the need for investigation saying "it makes as much sense as the Administration's suggestion that global warming be the topic of a policy debate. It seems that every informed person but Trump knows that global warming is proven science. Likewise, every properly informed person but Trump knows there is no election fraud. Bucking this consensus is a waste of time and money."

Padilla explained the apparent over-registration endemic in his state as "an enigmatic anomaly. Even if we could figure out why there are millions of bogus registrations there is no proof that any of these resulted in ballots being cast."

The absence of "proof" may owe a lot to procedures barring use of photo IDs as a step toward verifying the identity of those casting ballots at the polls or by mail. Even the matching of signatures on mailed ballots with signatures on voter registration forms has been challenged by the ACLU as "disenfranchising."

ACLU spokesman Bertram Petty said "requiring a voter to prove his or her identity is humiliating. It puts procedural technicalities ahead of the obvious truth that a human being has a natural right to elect those who rule him. To deny a person the right to vote because he doesn't reside in the district or isn't a citizen is a violation of his human rights. So, what we are saying is that, in the big picture, all the ID rigamarole is aimed at suppressing the vote."

In related news, Richard Robert Rawling, a former elections worker in North Carolina, was indicted for altering vote totals by running ballots through the counting machine multiple times during a primary election in March 2016. In his defense, Rawling maintained that "I wasn't trying to favor any candidate. I was just trying to make sure that the results of the provisional canvass would match the number of approved provisional ballots. Otherwise, I'd have had to fill out a discrepancy report. That would've made me look bad and could have cast doubt on the reported election outcome."

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