Is Voter Fraud Real?
What is the greatest danger to complimentary and fair elections in America? Here’s a tip: it’s not Russia or any other foreign power. It’s not a person, either. It’s something far more subtle, and a lot more dangerous. Investigative reporter Eric Eggers has the response.
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Script:
While the significant media fixates on the impact of foreign powers on American elections, a much more serious attack has been happening right under our noses: Good old-fashioned, home-grown citizen scams. Let’s look at three of the worst offenses.
Example top: puffed up citizen rolls.
In 244 counties throughout the United States, there are more registered voters than there are
people lawfully eligible to vote. Twenty-nine states have counties with more authorized voters than legal citizens. And eight states have more signed up voters than real voting-age individuals.
When the Supreme Court promoted Ohio’s efforts to tidy up its own voter rolls in 2018, the majority opinion cited Pew Center stats: 24 million citizen registrations in the United States are either “significantly unreliable or void.” And nearly 3 million individuals are believed to be signed up to enact more than one state.
These numbers have a stunning implication: It’s really simple to exploit our voting system. Throughout an undercover investigation, New York City detectives made 63 efforts to cast unlawful tallies based on problematic citizen rolls. They succeeded 61 times. Comparable examinations in other states and other cities produce the same dismal outcomes. Fake voters on the rolls is just one risk to election integrity.
Here’s example number two: tally harvesting.
In 2016, the state of California– one of the states with more authorized voters than residents– became the first state to legislate the practice of ballot solicitation; that is, the collection and delivery of tallies by 3rd parties. With no trace of irony, this is called “tally harvesting.”
It works like this: In California, companies with a clear political agenda are legally permitted to go to a place– state, a nursing home or a church, and collect– actually harvest– ballots. The 3rd party then transfers these ballots to a polling location or an election office.
This raises an obvious concern: Once this third party collects the ballots, what’s to stop them from changing them– or from just throwing out the ones they do not like? A guilty conscience? How do we know ballot harvesters from Democratic organizations aren’t damaging Republican ballots? Or Republican harvesters aren’t destroying Democratic tallies? We don’t. We have no chance of understanding.
Let’s look at one particular example. On Election Night 2018, California Central Valley Republican Congressman David Valadao held a 5,000-vote lead over his challenger, Democrat T.J. Cox. The margin was broad enough that the networks even called the race for Valadao, the Republican incumbent.
However wait!
There were late tallies still to be delivered by the third-party vote harvesters. When those votes was available in, they broke so extremely for Cox (in a traditionally conservative district, no less) that Valadao’s 5,000-vote victory ended up being an 862-vote loss.
Maybe that was simply a coincidence. Or maybe not.
In the very first major election after ballot harvesting was allowed in California, Democrats won every single congressional seat in Orange County, which had been a Republican stronghold for decades. A year earlier, no sober individual would have believed that possible.
Citizen corruption example number 3: Voting by non-citizens.
Should you have to be a citizen to vote? Ridiculous question?
According to a current survey, over half of Democrats– 53%– assistance giving illegal immigrants the right to vote– forget the legal ones!
Democratic National Chair Tom Perez, before working for the Obama administration, worked for a group called CASA de Maryland, which has been a long time advocate for expanding non-citizen ballot rights.
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Twenty-nine states have counties with more authorized voters than legal residents. And 8 states have actually more registered voters than actual voting-age people.
Throughout an undercover investigation, New York City detectives made 63 efforts to cast illegal ballots based on flawed voter rolls. Phony citizens on the rolls is simply one hazard to election stability.
How do we know ballot harvesters from Democratic organizations aren’t damaging Republican tallies?
