HOW TO PROVE
RAMPANT VOTER FRAUD IN U.S.
Experts say federal investigation could verify Trump's claim, by
Garth Kant, 1/25/17, WND
WASHINGTON – President
Trump has called the establishment media’s bluff on voter fraud, and, judging
by the evidence, as well as comments from a pair of the nation’s leading
experts on the subject, he may just hold a winning hand.
Reporters incessantly badgered
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (see video above) on
Tuesday over the president’s comments in a private meeting that he believed
3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the election. Hillary Clinton garnered
2.9 million more votes nationwide than Trump, while the Republican won the
Electoral College vote, 304-227.
Reporters repeatedly
demanded Spicer tell them, if Trump was so sure about widespread voter fraud,
why he didn’t order an investigation? So, on Wednesday, Trump
announced he would do just that.including those
registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and. even, those
registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on
results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”
The reporters’ brazenness
could well have been prompted by articles from mainstream media outlets, such
as the New
York Times, insisting there was no
evidence of voter fraud.
But that’s not true.
Ample evidence has been published indicating widespread voter fraud, as WND and other
media outlets have reported over
the years.
The problem with Trump’s
claims, according to two experts who have studied the issue in depth, is “we
don’t really know to what extent they are true.”
John Fund is the
national affairs columnist for National Review. Hans von Spakovsky, a former
member of the Federal Election Commission, is a senior legal fellow at the
Heritage Foundation. They are the authors of “Who’s
Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”
Both have commented
extensively to WND on voter fraud in the past, and they generously allowed WND
to use quotes from the draft of an op-ed they submitted for publication,
titled, “Trump’s probe of voter fraud long overdue. No one should oppose
collecting the data Obama’s administration has been hiding.”
Perhaps their most
consequential insight is that if all the past indicators are true and there
likely has been rampant voter fraud, it may not be all that difficult to prove,
particularly now that there is a will to look for it.
“Conducting an
investigation that will help resolve the size of the voter fraud problem is
straightforward,” asserted Fund and von Spakovsky.
“The Department of
Homeland Security should cooperate with states wanting to check the citizenship
status of voters on their rolls. The Justice Department should put pressure on
or sue counties and states that refuse to clean up their rolls.”
That could weed out dead
voters and those who cast multiple ballots. What about identifying
illegalvoters, those who are not citizens?
“The IRS has issued 11
million Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, most of them to illegal
immigrants so they can file taxes,” noted
the authors.
“Privacy rules allow the
IRS to share information for some law enforcement purposes, but not in a way
that results in deportations. Those rules could be tweaked to allow states to
compare the names of illegal immigrants the IRS has with their voter records.”
The results of such an
investigation could be stunning, even a major scandal for Democrats, if past
studies prove correct. Fund and von Spakovsky
cited “a 2012 study from the Pew Center on the States estimating that one out
of every eight voter registrations is inaccurate, out-of-date or a duplicate.”
“About 2.8 million
people are registered in more than one state, according to the study, and 1.8
million registered voters are dead. In most places it’s easy to vote under the
names of such people with little risk of detection.”
Additionally, a 2014
study in the Electoral
Studies Journal shows illegals may
have cast as many as 2.8 million votes in 2008 and 2010.
In an editorial on the
study by Investors Business Daily on Nov. 28, titled “Trump is right — Millions
of illegals probably did vote in 2016,” the paper noted: “And when you consider
the population of illegal inhabitants has only grown since then, it’s not
unreasonable to suppose that their vote has, too.
“Remember, a low-ball
estimate says there are at least 11 million to 12 million illegals in the U.S.,
but that’s based on faulty Census data. More likely estimates put the number at
20 million to 30 million.”
The study has been
criticized, but the objection made by a Harvard team in 2015 that “the likely
percent of noncitizen voters in recent U.S. elections is 0” not only seems
dubious, even Democrats disagree.
Fund and von Spakovsky
observed: “The Washington Post conducted a poll last October using the Polfish
firm that found 84% of Republicans believe that a ‘meaningful amount’ of voter
fraud occurs in U.S. elections, along with 75 percent of independents. A
majority of Democrats – 52 percent – also believed there was meaningful voter
fraud.”
A quarter of Democrats
believed illegal immigrants were voting.
Fund and von Spakovsky
also reported: “A postelection survey conducted by Americas Majority Foundation
found that 2.1% of noncitizens voted in the Nov. 8 election. In the
battleground states of Michigan and Ohio, 2.5% and 2.1%, respectively, of
noncitizens reported voting.”
Other evidence of the
strong potential for voter fraud includes what Gateway Pundit dug up and WND
reported in October, that 12 states and the
District of Columbia allow driver’s licenses to be given to illegal immigrants,
and almost half of California’s driver’s licenses went to illegal aliens last
year.
And Democrats seem more
than well-aware how that works to their advantage, as evidenced in an email
revealed by WikiLeaks in October, sent by Clinton campaign manager John Podesta
on Feb. 3, 2015, indicating he is not troubled by voter fraud.
Podesta wrote, “On the
picture ID, the one thing I have thought of in that space is that if you show
up on Election Day with a drivers license with a picture, attest that you are a
citizen, you have a right to vote in Federal elections.”
WND also reported a
Democratic Party activist told undercover investigators for Project Veritas
that his party has been rigging elections “for 50 years.”
“You know what? We’ve
been busing people in to deal with you f—ing a—–es for 50 years, and we’re not
going to stop now,” said Scott Foval, the national field director for Americans
United for Change.
So if there are so many
indication of voter fraud, possibly on a massive scale, why hasn’t it been
proven so far? Because the federal
government holds the key. And the fraud would have benefited Democrats. And
Democrats have held the White House for eight years.
As Investors observed:
“A Rasmussen Reports poll earlier this year found that 53% of the Democratic
Party supports letting illegals vote, even though it’s against the law. It’s
pretty clear why.”
“Leftist
get-out-the-vote groups openly urge noncitizens to vote during election time,
and the registration process is notoriously loose,” Investors added.
Fund and von Spakovsky
went even further, charging, “The Obama administration did everything it could
to avoid complying with requests from states to verify voter registration
records against federal records of legal noncitizens and illegal immigrants who
have been detained by law enforcement to find noncitizens who have illegally
registered and voted.”
They noted former
Justice Department attorney Christian Adams testified under oath that he
attended a November 2009 meeting at which then-deputy assistant attorney
general Julie Fernandes told DOJ prosecutors that administration would not be
enforcing the federal law that requires local officials to purge illegitimate
names from their voter rolls.
The authors state, “The
Justice Department has also opposed every effort by states – such as Kansas,
Arizona, Alabama and Georgia –to implement laws that require individuals
registering to vote to provide proof of citizenship.
“This despite evidence
that noncitizens are indeed registering and casting ballots. In 2015, one
Kansas county began offering voter registration at naturalization ceremonies.
Election officials soon discovered about a dozen new Americans who were already
registered – and who had voted as noncitizens in multiple elections.”
Fund and von Spakovsky
conclude, “These blatant attempts to prevent states from learning if they have
a real problem with illegal votes makes it impossible to learn if significant
numbers of noncitizens and others are indeed voting illegally, perhaps enough
to make up the margin in some close elections.”
So, with a change in
administrations, the bottom line in discovering whether there really is massive
voter fraud may be as simple as, where there’s a will, there’s a way.
And President Trump
certainly has announced he has the will.
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