The vote fraud that Democrats refuse to see, By Deroy
Murdock, 7/14/17.
This fuzzy math sums up Democrats’
orthodoxy on vote fraud: As the bulletproof evidence of fraud adds up, they
still claim, “There’s nothing to see here.” Not even these hard numbers, based
on verified vote-fraud cases, move their acceptance of this reality into the
realm of positive integers.
This pathological denial is even more
intense, now that President Trump has taken vote fraud seriously enough to appoint a bipartisan panel to get to the bottom of it.
While the Presidential Advisory
Commission on Election Integrity is chaired by Republicans Vice President Mike
Pence and co-chaired by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (whom I have
known since college, thanks to the Washington Crossing Foundation’s scholarship
program for civic-minded students), its members include two Democratic
secretaries of state — Maine’s Matthew Dunlap and New Hampshire’s Bill Gardner
— and Alabama’s Alan Lamar King, a Democratic judge. Never mind, leading
Leftists insist. The issue is bogus, and the commission is evil.
According to Sen. Bernie Sanders
(Socialist-Vt.), “The sole purpose of this commission is to propagate a myth
and to give encouragement to Republican governors and state legislators to
increase voter suppression.”
The Brennan Center for Justice’s
Michael Waldman believes that President Trump “set up a probe of an imaginary
threat.”
Chris Carson, chief of the League
of Women Voters, predicts that the Pence/Kobach commission will “undermine our
elections by spreading falsehoods.”
“The truth remains that it is more
likely for someone to be struck by lightning than for someone to have committed
voter fraud,” Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said in May. “Voter fraud is a
non-issue in our country.”These and other Leftists ignore concrete proof that
vote fraud exists:
In May 2016, CBS2 Los Angeles
identified 265 dead voters in southern California. Many cast ballots “year
after year.”
The Heritage Foundation’s
non-exhaustive survey confirms, since 2000, at least 742 criminal vote-fraud
convictions.
North Carolina announced in April
2014 that 13,416 dead voters were registered, and 81 of them recently had
voted. Among 35,750 North Carolinians also registered in other states, 765
voted in November 2012, both inside and outside the Tarheel State.
South Carolina’s attorney general
concluded in January 2012 that 953 people “were deceased at the time of their
participation in recent elections.”
The Public Interest Legal
Foundation recently discovered that Virginia removed 5,556 non-citizens from
its voter rolls between 2011 and last May. Among these non-Americans, 1,852 had
cast a total of 7,474 illegal ballots across multiple elections.
Craftier liberals have inched away
from the baseless “Vote fraud = Loch Ness Monster” argument. Now, some claim,
vote fraud is not “widespread.”
As MSNBC host Katy Tur recently
soothed her viewers: “Nobody has found any widespread instances of voter
fraud.” Well, Katy, how widespread must vote fraud be before Democrats and
their defenders agree that, at least, it should be investigated?
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-Va.), a
long-time Clinton confidante, vetoed a bill in February that would have
required probes of elections in which the number of ballots cast exceeded the
number of voters eligible to cast them. How could any honest person oppose such
a measure?
During the 2000 Bush v. Gore
disaster, Democrats shouted, “Count every vote!” In their more admirable
moments, Democrats were among those who demanded, “One man. One vote.”
Today, in order to preserve the
dodgy electoral system that seems to benefit them when fishy things happen,
their battle cries have devolved into “Count every vote, but don’t worry if
some of them are negated by fake ones” and “One man. One vote. Usually.”
This is pathetic. If Democrats will
tolerate non-widespread vote fraud, how many phony ballots are they willing to
see neutralize genuine ones? 265? 765? 7,474?
And whose legitimate ballots should
be vaporized so that, in essence, fraudulent ballots can be cast and counted in
peace? Sen. Sanders, let’s start with yours.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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