{"id":33625,"date":"2018-06-11T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33625"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:45:12","slug":"a-small-step-to-insure-the-integrity-of-the-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33625","title":{"rendered":"A Small Step To Insure The Integrity Of The Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> is reporting today that the Supreme Court has ruled today in a 5-4 decision that Ohio has the right to purge its voter rolls of infrequent voters.<\/p>\n

The article reported:<\/p>\n

The state said the policy was needed to keep voting rolls current, clearing out people who have moved away or died.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Under Ohio\u2019s policy, if registered voters miss voting for two years, they are sent registration confirmation notices. If they do not respond and do not vote over the following four years, they are purged.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican President Donald Trump\u2019s administration backed Ohio, reversing the stance taken by Democratic former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration against the policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis decision is validation of Ohio\u2019s efforts to clean up the voter rolls and now with the blessing (of the) nation\u2019s highest court, it can serve as a model for other states to use,\u201d Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said the court was not deciding whether Ohio\u2019s policy \u201cis the ideal method for keeping its voting rolls up to date. The only question before us is whether it violates federal law. It does not.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Periodically purging voter rolls is common sense. People move, people die, etc. I personally know of one instance where a registered voter decided to check who was registered to vote claiming her home as a residence. She discovered that there were three people registered to vote at her address who she had never heard of.<\/p>\n

In September 2010, I posted the following<\/a> about efforts in Houston to uncover voter fraud:<\/p>\n

According to the American Thinker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA group of people took it upon themselves to work at polling places in 2008 and observed \u2013 and were shocked \u2013 by what they perceived to be voter fraud. Their next step was to create a citizen-based grassroots group to collect publicly available voting data and analyze what they found (with the help of donated computers<\/a> and volunteer helpers). They admit they did not know what they were doing at first but where there is a will there is a way.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fox News tells what happened next:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dThe first thing we started to do was look at houses<\/a> with more than six voters in them\u201d Engelbrecht said, because those houses were the most likely to have fraudulent registrations attached to them. \u201cMost voting districts had 1,800 if they were Republican and 2,400 of these houses if they were Democratic . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u201dBut we came across one with 24,000, and that was where we started looking.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\u201cVacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house<\/a> had more than 40 voters registered at its address,\u201d Engelbrecht said. \u201cWe then decided to look at who was registering the voters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTheir work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state\u2019s office and the Harris County district attorney.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Sean Caddle, who formerly worked for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voter fraud is real in America. Purging voter rolls is not the entire solution, but it is a valid first step.<\/p>\n

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