Posted on 09/08/2016 8:08:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Election integrity foes mistakenly tell us voter fraud is a myth. So when legitimate voter fraud is actually discovered, these foes pretend it didn’t happen, fail to take any steps to investigate or prosecute such cases, or, even worse, try to cover it up. Take Virginia, where the State Board of Elections and some local election officials want to hide a blatant case of voter fraud involving noncitizens.
Penalties for voting as a non-citizen -
When non-citizens register or actually vote, they violate both state and federal statutes because citizenship is a requirement to vote in both state and federal elections. Falsely claiming to be a citizen on a voter registration form is a felony that violates three different federal statutes. Voting by a non-citizen under 18 U.S.C. §611 is a strict liability offense. In other words, it “does not require proof that the offender was aware that citizenship is a prerequisite to voting.” Article II, Section 1 of the Virginia constitution requires a voter to be a citizen, and §24.2-1004 of the Virginia Code makes it a felony to vote when you are “not qualified to vote” in the state.
So you would think state and local election officials would treat these crimes with appropriate seriousness. Guess again.
When I was a member of the Fairfax County Electoral Board in Virginia, we discovered close to 300 non-citizens who had illegally registered in our county, about half of whom had also illegally voted in prior elections. We removed those individuals from the voter rolls and forwarded their files to both the Commonwealth Attorney (Virginia’s equivalent of the county district attorney) and the U.S. Justice Department for investigation and prosecution. Neither took any action to enforce the law against these non-citizens.
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Those refusing to prosecute illegal voting or trying to get groups like convicted felons an automatic right to vote should be prosecuted for voter fraud. I am seeing the day when forceful citizens arrest would happen.
I agree with you, they should be prosecuted as felonies and their voting rights should be striped forever.
There’s one reason the Clintons’ NY pal Terry McAuliffe somehow became Governor of Virginia—for a time such as this. After four years of telegraphing Julian Castro as her VP pick, she doubled down with Tim Kaine.
This election should be conducted on paper ballot by the United State military . The democrats will absolutely steel it if we dont insist on that. Did you know that in Philadelphia in 2012 they had 13 precincts that had more votes than residents? and , get this, not one vote for Republicans. One of the precincts was guarded with clubs by thug “black panthers” that obama dropped prosecution saying “ We don’t prosecute Blacks” We are dangerously close my friends, People are pissed.
In the 2012 Colorado elections, there were 10 counties that had more votes than registered voters. All went to dear leader, of course.
They have no problemo soaking the taxpayers for more benefits for the poor and minorities. So why haven't they done it for voters? We have been listening to these complaints for YEARS that the poor and minorities don't have IDs (which I don't believe for a minute because you need an ID to do practically everything like rent, cash a check, etc.) and can't vote. Why haven't the Democrats created a ID-providing bureaucracy to give IDs to them all?
Because it's not about IDing. It's about allowing unidentifiable people to vote un-ID'd at any precinct multiple times, at multiple precincts, at multiple counties. Over and over and over.
You know .... voter fraud.
Bingo!!!
I would expect nothing better from Fairfax County.
My former jurisdiction, Prince William County, bent over backwards to ensure every single vote corresponded to an actual, living resident of whatever precinct he or she voted in. Many very long days for us officers of elections.
TC
“I agree with you, they should be prosecuted as felonies and their voting rights should be striped forever.”
What voting rights would you suspend?
They are not citizens.
The people who refused to prosecute them.
Personally, at this point I think it should be a treason prosecution.
Even AFTER they become citizens.
Except, if actually prosecuted as felons they can not become citizens.
Except under a “Democrat” prez.
Deport them.
This reluctance to prosecute is becoming an epidemic. Not only among government officials, at least Democrats, but in the private sector as well, cases are dropped or lenient sentences given, which results in a tendency of criminals to see no deterrent to further criminal activity.
I’ve known people who not worried about jail time. A neighbor was facing 2 years, he said he could do 2 years standing on his head. His son stole some merchandise from a Wal Mart, he played getaway driver, they got caught. I wondered why, when his son ran to the car and said let’s go, come on, hurry, why he didn’t stop on the spot and ask him why he was in such a hurry. That would be a dead giveaway to me. Nope, he drove off. They didn’t make it 2 miles. Both were already convicted felons.
Then there’s early release. Get 10 years, get out in 5 or so. And prison is no longer a punishment even if you do have to do time. Central heat and AC, all the cable TV you can stand, meals, medical, all the books you can read, don’t have to work, free legal assistance, in some cases even unsupervised visits.
Those on death row will live longer than they will in the general population. Ted Bundy dragged out his appeal process for 15 years or more. Many make it 20 years.
Many politicians and multi millionaires don’t even go to a real prison. More like a restricted country club. Lots of people want to see Hillary in prison. Yeah right. If it happens, it won’t be the hard time lockup us everyday peasants see.
Voter fraud will probably not be prosecuted, never has as far as I know. we’ve seen in a coupe of elections already very solid evidence of voter fraud, nothing done about it. I haven’t even seen anyone trying to really do much to stop it.
In this upcoming election, I expect widespread voter fraud, it;s the only way Hillary will have a chance. Obama and his cronies are already trying to do everything they can to get as many illegals and convicted felons to vote, eliminate voter ID laws, whatever they can think of.
a woman was caught engaging in voter fraud not long ago, signing up democrats and handing them literature suggesting they vote for Hillary. I saw a news article or three, not a word since. Has anything been done? I doubt it. She’s probably back on the streets doing it again right now.
There was a story in the primaries, where republican votes were ending up in the democrat position instead. One Republican representative couldn’t even vote for himself.
Has any of this been even investigated, much less prosecuted? If so I haven’t seen it. Looking around at results of a search, I seem to see more sites debunking voter fraud than verifying it. And of course most have URLs like huffington post, NBC, slate, politico...
CNN says - websites “spreading lies” about voter fraud.
washington Post - Here’s how rare in person voter fraud is.
NY Times - Voter fraud is rare but myth is widespread.
ABC news - Voter Fraud: it’s real but rare.
NBC - Study finds no evidence of Widespread Voter Fraud
Forbes - Voter fraud: A massive Anti-Democratic Deception
Mediamatters - Debunking the Conservative Media’s 2014 Voter Fraud Horror
About the only ones not trying to debunk voter fraud were Fox and Brietbart...and a couple of lesser known but probably reputable sites.
For years now groups like the SEIU and Casa de Maryland (yes, in Virginia)have been registering illegal aliens in Northern Virginia and then getting them to vote.
Once registered (the Registrars admit they never do checks on the applications that come in as to valid citizenship)they vote, often by absentee or early voting where there are no poll watchers to cry foul.
Republican legislators know it well, but are too cowardly to fight it less they be called racists.
In Wyoming we have paper ballots marked with special pencil and deposited in locked counting machine, so if recount is
necessary ballots are inside counting machine and can be
recounted by hand.
The weak-kneed pansies in this country don't get it.
The people whose job it is to enforce the laws of this land, and chose to not do so even after being alerted to the crimes committed by non-citizens.
I wonder, how many Illegal Invaders are sitting on Juries?
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