{"id":34364,"date":"2018-09-27T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34364"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:57:41","slug":"is-voter-fraud-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34364","title":{"rendered":"Is Voter Fraud Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In August of 2017, Investor’s Business Daily<\/a> posted an editorial that is still significant today. The editorial dealt with voter fraud.<\/p>\n

The editorial stated:<\/p>\n

Elections<\/em>: American democracy has a problem \u2014 a voting problem. According to a new study of U.S. Census data, America has more registered voters than actual live voters. It’s a troubling fact that puts our nation’s future in peril.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The data come from Judicial Watch’s Election Integrity Project. The group looked at data from 2011 to 2015 produced by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, along with data from the federal Election Assistance Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As reported by the National Review’s Deroy Murdock<\/a>, who did some numbers-crunching of his own, “some 3.5 million more people are registered to vote in the U.S. than are alive among America’s adult citizens. Such staggering inaccuracy is an engraved invitation to voter fraud.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Murdock counted Judicial Watch’s state-by-state tally and found that 462 U.S. counties had a registration rate exceeding 100% of all eligible voters. That’s 3.552 million people, who Murdock calls “ghost voters.” And how many people is that? There are 21 states that don’t have that many people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concluded:<\/p>\n

And, in at least two nationally important elections in recent memory, the outcome was decided by a paper-thin margin: In 2000, President Bush beat environmental activist and former Vice President Al Gore by just 538 votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, won his seat by beating incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman in 2008. Coleman was initially declared the winner the day after the election, with a 726-vote lead over Franken. But after a controversial series of recounts and ballot disqualifications, Franken emerged weeks later with a 225-seat victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Franken’s win was enormous, since it gave Democrats filibuster-proof control of the Senate. So, yes, small vote totals matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re not saying here that Franken cheated, nor, for that matter, that Bush did. But small numbers can have an enormous impact on our nation’s governance. The 3.5 million possible fraudulent ballots that exist are a problem that deserves serious immediate attention. Nothing really hinges on it, of course, except the integrity and honesty of our democratic elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t claim to be a mathematical genius, but logically it doesn’t seem as if you should have more registered voters than live people. I understand that there can be a delay if a person dies, but hopefully that person can be taken off of the voter rolls quickly. There are also cases of intentional fraud. A friend of mine checked the voter rolls for the names of anyone registered to vote at her address. She found three names that she did not even recognize.<\/p>\n

Recently there has been a move in some areas to compare voting rolls with the names of those refusing jury duty by stating that they are not American citizens. A number of people have been charged with crimes for voting when they were not eligible to vote.<\/p>\n

We need honest elections. That is one reason that voter identity is a good idea. We also need checks and balances on our data–reporting and storing data. Recently a friend checked election data and found that it has been altered after certification. That should not happen.<\/p>\n

North Carolina has a voter id measure on the ballot in November. The voters had already passed a voter id measure, but the courts struck it down. Let’s hope the will of the people will prevail this time.<\/p>\n

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