There’s nothing to see here, just keep moving, don’t mind the voter fraud

written by Guest Contributor Natalia Castro September 19, 2017

Democrats have spent years pretending voter fraud does not exist, denying clear evidence of double registration, illegal voting, and improper voter identification. President Donald Trump has refused to do the same, instead creating an official commission to combat the problem. Now, Democrats are further obstructing the process in an attempt to gain illegal votes, proving the need for the President’s commission on its face.

New Hampshire was an extremely close state across the board in the 2016 elections. Democrat Maggie Hassan scored a narrow win over Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte in the Senate race and Trump lost the state by less than half a percentage point.

Kansas Secretary of State and Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity co-chairman Kris Kobach thinks he knows the reason: election fraud.

New Hampshire is one of 15 states that allow same-day voter registration; however, that makes it nearly impossible to immediately assess the eligibility of the voter. A volunteer poll worker simple accepts some form of identification and takes the voters word that they are a U.S. citizen and resident of the state who is eligible to vote. If the individual does not have New Hampshire license or registration, they have 60 days to receive one.

Too often, this leads to obvious holes in the system. Kobach explains in a Breitbart column:

So if those 6,540 voters were bona fide New Hampshire residents, they would get their driver’s license no later than January 7, 2017. However, the numbers tell a very different story. It turns out that, as of August 30, 2017 – nearly ten months after the election – only 1,014 of the 6,540 same-day registrants who registered with an out-of-state license had obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. The other 5,526 individuals never obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. And, of those 5,526, only 213 registered a vehicle in New Hampshire.”

These voters are considered bona fide residents of the state for the purpose of voting, but it appears that is not the case at all, many of these residents might not even live in New Hampshire, a prominent swing state.

As a result of these inquiries, Kobach and the commission traveled to New Hampshire last week to discuss the effects of possible fraud on public confidence in the election process.

But New Hampshire is not alone, poor voting practices such as same-day voting, leave many states susceptible to fraudulent voting.

College Park, Maryland has just joined several other state and local municipalities that will allow undocumented immigrants, student visa holders and residents with green cards to vote in local elections.

Newsweek of Sept. 2017 reports, College Park is joining two other Maryland cities as well as Chicago and San Francisco in allowing illegal immigrants the chance to vote. However, under U.S. law, these individuals are still not permitted to vote in federal elections.

This has the potential to cause great confusion in state voting records.

U.S. Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 29, Section 611 provides protections for citizens right to vote and explicitly notes the following:

It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner.”

This means these states that wish to allow illegal immigrants to vote in state and local elections have the additional burden of separating registration rolls for different elections. These states run a critical risk of having illegal immigrants, unaware that they can vote in one election and not another with elections that often occur on the same day, casting illegal and fraudulent ballots.

But none of that is surprising. Democrats will continue trying to find ways to ignore the voter fraud problem and deny its existence. Luckily, the President’s election integrity commission is refusing to make that an easy task and is working hard to restore the rule of law to our voting process.

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Guest Contributor Natalia Castro

mark Jawsz

Every time an illegal immigrant votes (Democratic), he or she cancels the vote of a (Republican) citizen. Because we have complete dominance of the so-called “mainstream” media by liberals, they determine if falling trees in the forest make a noise or not.
- sd
  
  sucks to be you
- Mac Swinford
  
  If it happens, a Republican poll watcher let it happen.
  - Warmac9999
    
    You always blame. You cannot admit corruption even when it is staring you in the face.
    - sd
      
      almost as obvious as climate change
    - Mac Swinford
      
      Do you deny that what I wrote is true? Where is there a ballot box without a representative of both major parties watching? And why would a Republican poll watcher permit a likely Democratic voter to cast a ballot if they have even a doubt as to their eligibility? I would write the same words if a Democrat complained about Republican voter fraud. It is simply a farce to claim otherwise. The rules are clear.
    - Mac Swinford
      
      Is this the sort of thing to which you refer to as voter fraud? From today’s DC paper:
      
      As President Trump’s controversial commission on voter fraud seeks to gather evidence, it won’t have to look far for some suspicious activity: a ballot cast in last fall’s presidential election in Virginia by Jeffrey Gerrish, Trump’s nominee to be a deputy U.S. trade representative.
      
      Gerrish, whose nomination is pending in the Senate, sold a home in Fairfax County, Va., in July 2016 and bought a home in North Bethesda, Md., the same month, according to public records of the sales, which list the Maryland home as Gerrish’s
      “principal residence.”
      
      Yet Gerrish, a Washington lawyer, voted four months later in Virginia, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.
      
      Gerrish did not return calls or email this week seeking an explanation. Under Virginia law, voting in the state is limited to residents, with some exceptions, including those who move out of the jurisdiction within 30 days of a presidential election. Voting by nonresidents is a misdemeanor.
      - Warmac9999
        
        This type of behavior is exactly what I despise regardless of party. I want to see a full examination independent of poll watchers who have been prevented from doing their job or, worse, use it as a way of promoting illegal voting (see project veritas). You seem to be ignorant of the many instances of vote fraud and managed to find this one without bothering to look more widely even in Virginia itself.
      - Mac Swinford
        
        I did not deny there is abuse or fraud. Indeed, I provided an example. I observed that if it occurs it is because the election officials failed in the task before them.
Chris k

Poor babies
Jim Portugul

The Republicans lied for 7 years about repealing Obamacare. Who did Trump say would pay for that Wall?

Yet, you are calling out only the Democrats for being cheaters at the voting booth.

What planet are you from? When did you land? What do you want from us?
- Warmac9999
  
  You should be for true the vote to expose and eliminate vote fraud. My guess is you know that 90+% of vote fraud comes from democrat run inner cities so you merely want to bluster about everybody does it.
ameri…canwork

Aw didum’s unskilled undocumented migrant farm labor vote Democrat, cast a vote, prove it in Va.
So freaking what?
Republican Governor “Bob for jobs” McDonnell gave them our jobs , “Bob for illegal jobs” through Administrative Deregulation of Statute 54.1-1100 and the Va Unemployment Compensation Act and then took it even further by his policy of allowing VEC Commissioner Broadway to classify the as bona-fide independent contractors.
Well “Mr.Skilled educated” Republican your undocumented farm worker has been documented using your state issued violations;
http://watchdog.org/202012/subcontractors-shadow-economy
And if anyone takes issue with this feel free to contact Va’s longest serving Senator, Republican Senator Steve Newman where all of this illegal commerce takes place. Please read the story then cast a vote for Ralph Nortram so as to continue to tax the illegal Republican labor.
Warmac9999

I am far more concerned about the pay for play treason of Hillary and the criminal misuse of government law enforcement and intelligence agencies by Obama. Democrats have been stealing votes for a half a century at a minimum and that is how JFK won the presidency.
- Mac Swinford
  
  If your allegations had even a scintilla of truth, the Republican poll watchers were complicit in permitting it to happen. Where any ballot is questionable it is a simple matter of asserting it be cast provisionally.
  
  To the extent there is voter fraud anywhere, it’s been occurring on both sides of the aisle and is always preventable by simply challenging the ballot. No reason required. In which case it is put aside, counted only if it is determinant and proven properly cast by a provably eligible voter in a court of law.
  - Warmac9999
    
    Well, then you should be fully supporting the presidential voting fraud commission as I am. I don’t think the word simple applies to any of this but I wish it were true.
    - Mac Swinford
      
      It is simple: If any poll watcher has even the slightest doubt a ballot cast is valid, it must be marked provisional and counted only if it could affect the election outcome and it is proven properly cast in a court of law.
      
      I do not support the voting fraud commission because I find the fraud claims of the president invalid, unsupported by evidence or reason (and by reason I refer to the ease with which any observer can challenge any ballot cast).
      - Steve Albertson
        
        That’s crazy, and an inaccurate statement of Virginia law (at least) governing when provisional ballots may be used. The point is that people can be unlawfully REGISTERED to vote, not merely that some people some of the time might impersonate someone else at a polling place. When someone’s name appears on the rolls (lawfully or not) there’s very little a precinct worker, Republican or not, can do to correct that—much less ensure that the validity of that vote is adjudicated by the courts.
      - Jim Portugul
        
        1) As an attorney, please tell us why it is “fraud” for someone to vote illegally to help their candidate get elected, and yet, it is not “fraud” for candidates for office to lie their asses off to help themselves win an election???
        
        2) If Republicans really were Republicans in Virginia, wouldn’t they have enough voters to win statewide elections even if there were a few thousand illegal voters working for the Democrats?
        
        3) The proof that Republicans are not really Republicans in Virginia? Great question, Steve. Here is my answer, John Warner, John Chichester, Bob McDonnell, and Donald J.Trump.
      - ameri…canwork
        
        You are correct.
        In running my Home building business I say we have to offer two of three things; service , quality or price. I choose the first two options.
        The Va. Republican just looks for blame ( look at what you get if you vote for them) of the competition and delivers on nothing.
      - Mac Swinford
        
        I did not say it is not abused, so your high horse is unnecessary. Indeed, I offered an example of abuse from today’s paper.
        
        Your last sentence mirrors mine: “or are complicit in its perpetuation.”
        
        And I repeat with still more force: If there is any reason to believe a ballot may be improperly cast, a poll watcher should feel duty bound to challenge that ballot.
        
        Crazy? Me think you doth protest too much. Your own words match mine on this issue.
      - Steve Albertson
        
        Yeah…that bit about complicity was aimed at Democrats who erect obstacles to clearing invalid voters from the rolls. They exist on the State Board of Elections and on local boards across the Commonweslth.
      - Mac Swinford
        
        Steve, don’t take my word for it. It’s a simple, clear fact, and note that the election officer is required to do this, not a judgment call:
        
        http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/provisional-ballots.aspx
        
        Provisional ballots ensure that voters are not excluded from the voting process due to an administrative error. They provide a fail-safe mechanism for voters who arrive at the polls on Election Day and whose eligibility to vote is uncertain.
        
        Also referred to as “challenge ballots” or “affidavit ballots” in some states, they are required by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). When there is uncertainty about a voter’s eligibility—the potential voter’s name is not on the voter rolls, a required identification document isn’t available or other issues—the election
        official is required to offer the voter a provisional ballot instead of a regular ballot.
        
        In nearly all of the states, after being cast, the provisional ballot is kept separate from other ballots until after the election. A determination is then made as to whether the voter was eligible to vote, and therefore whether the ballot is to be counted. Generally, a board of elections or local election officials will investigate the provisional ballots within days of the election.
      - Steve Albertson
        
        You’re missing my point that the election official in the precinct most times has no reason to suspect a fraudulent voter, much less challenge that voter’s ballot.
      - Mac Swinford
        
        Agreed, voter fraud occurs, but it is occasional and exemplified in many cases by sheer confusion or error that ought not disenfranchise from my POV but which are technically improper.
        
        Utah’s former Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. was alleged to have committed voter fraud by casting his vote last year via his registration at the governor’s mansion despite having resigned and moved out of the address almost two years prior to become President Obama’s Ambassador to China. Ann Coulter repeatedly engaged in well-documented voter fraud. Charlie White, Republican Sec of State of Indiana — a state with, tough electoral rules — was indicted on seven felony counts, three of them related to voter fraud, after he continued to vote at a residence where he no longer lived (where he also continued to illegally serve on the town council, despite no longer living there). It also appears Mitt Romney has been playing similarly fast and loose with his own residency and is alleged to have voted, illegally, in last year’s special election for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts despite no longer being a resident of the state.
        
        Some big alleged numbers come from cases like deceased people remaining on the rolls without voting because … of course … they are dead and could not cancel their registrations, but there is no evidence of anyone voting in their name.
ameri…canwork

There been an affair of profit with the illegal alien and now that it is election time and some of these same folks say no it’s not what you think when caught with your pants down.

Well we have a saying on the job;
“ain’t no need in cryin your just gonna get your face wet, get to work and fix it”

There’s nothing to see here, just keep moving, don’t mind the voter fraud

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