Illegals
and Dead People voting in US Elections is a problem that has never been
effectively corrected. Congress has failed to amend the US Constitution to
clarify “born” and has determined the size of political “districts” according
to “population”, not number of “citizens”. Congress needed to do this 160 years
ago in 1865. The US Constitution leaves
US Election Laws to the States. A Republican Congress would need to make the
changes in the Constitution to allow “proof of citizenship” as a Federal Law
States would be required to include in their Election Laws. Secretaries of
State in each State are responsible for holding elections and enforcing
Election Laws by cleaning the voter rolls and receiving ballot counts from
County Election Commissions.
The
2020 Election prompted Trump Supporters to claim Voter Fraud. The Courts denied
these Trump Supporter’s rights to pursue these Law Suits.
72% of
all Lawyers in the US are Democrats and 100% of Judges in the US are Lawyers.
Democrats always accuse Republicans of whatever Democrats are doing.
Courts
dismissed these Law Suits for “lack of standing” and the Supreme Court had no
Appeals Court decisions to review.
The
following article is a Liberal’s view of voter fraud: Voter Fraud Update by Jane Timm, NBC, 2/27/23
Amateur
voter fraud hunters challenged 92,000 Georgia voter registrations
last year, using voter rolls, public records, door-to-door canvassing and hours
of their own time to ferret out the ballot rigging that election
workers, courts and state officials have been unable to find.
Data
from the challenges was collected by voting rights advocacy group Fair Fight
Action and shared exclusively with NBC News. The group's political action
committee is suing
in federal court over a massive, coordinated challenge to
the eligibility of 364,000 people to vote in the Senate runoff in 2021, arguing
that such mass challenges are discriminatory and intimidating.
The
tally represents challenges in 15 of Georgia's 159 counties — with seven of the
top 10 most populous counties included — meaning the actual number in the state
is likely higher.
The
numbers offer a window into the impact of both baseless claims of stolen
elections and Georgia’s 2021 sweeping election law. Senate Bill 202, as it is
known, codified that county residents could make unlimited requests to election
officials, asking them to remove voters from the rolls if the challengers
believed they were ineligible. The law mandated that county
officials must conduct a hearing on those challenges within 10 business days.
The
numbers offer a window into the impact of both baseless claims of stolen
elections and Georgia’s 2021 sweeping election law. Senate Bill 202, as it is
known, codified that county residents could make unlimited requests to election
officials, asking them to remove voters from the rolls if the challengers
believed they were ineligible. The law mandated that county
officials must conduct a hearing on those challenges within 10 business days.
“S.B.
202 blocked access to the ballot and deterred voters from participating through
processes like these mass voter challenges,” said Cianti Stewart-Reid, the
executive director of Fair Fight. “As we think about what does voter
suppression look like in 2022 — this is what it looks like.”
The
vast majority of the challenges documented by Fair Fight were unsuccessful;
local officials left nearly all the voters on the rolls. According to the
tally, 2,208 voter registrations were removed at hearings. More than 3,500
others were moved into pending or challenged status, which requires voters to
update their registrations.
But
advocates and experts said the challenges created bureaucratic nightmares for
busy local officials trying to run smooth elections, who were left to sort
through stacks of mass challenges as they balanced the rights of voters with
their legal obligation to respond quickly.
"We're
already not in a really great climate to run elections, and once you start
throwing really large administrative burdens — it's just another piece on the
puzzle that makes it harder," said Zach Manifold, elections supervisor in
Gwinnett County, which received more than 47,000 voter challenges last year,
according to Fair Fight's tally.
Voter
challenges conducted by private citizens are the latest in a growing trend of
voter fraud vigilantism in which people who are convinced of widespread fraud —
despite ample evidence it does not exist — have begun to take matters into
their own hands. In Arizona, armed members
of a right-wing group patrolled and monitored drop boxes, while in New Mexico,
volunteers with an “audit force” went
door-to-door seeking to check the voter rolls.
Fair Fight’s data also suggests that voters of
color and younger Georgians may be disproportionately affected by mass
challenges. In Cobb County, the group was able to examine voter registration
data — which includes a voter's race, ethnicity and age — for most of the
challenges, and found that both demographic groups were overrepresented in the
challenges.
Fair Fight, which was founded by Democrat
Stacey Abrams, began tracking challenges in 2021. It followed public hearings
weighing challenges and issued public records requests to get the lists of
challenged voters.
The staff member overseeing Fair Fight’s
tracking worked for a couple of months on the voter protection team for Abrams’
gubernatorial campaign in 2022 and continued the tracking there; she returned
to work for Fair Fight after the Democrat lost.
Fraud hunters typically use public records to
mine the voter rolls for potentially ineligible voter registrations before
making written requests to the local commissioners in their county. Many use
change-of-address data from the U.S. Postal Service to challenge the eligibly
of voters. Others have personally canvassed in their communities to examine
registration addresses, according to Fair Fight’s tracking.
And while the bulk of the challenges fail, some
voters receive letters informing them that someone else has challenged their
eligibility.
The challenges are “more likely to
disenfranchise or intimidate or confuse voters than they are to actually turn
up people who are ineligible to vote,” said Andrew Garber, an attorney at the
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. The
organization has urged counties to reject mass challenges and called on the
state to establish standardized procedures for processing them.
Challenges in 2022 ranged from expansive to
exacting.
A Forsyth County resident filed one of the
biggest challenges of the year in October, challenging 15,787 voters — about 6%
of the county’s voter rolls — in one fell swoop. He said postal service data
indicated problems with the voters’ addresses. The commissioners were
skeptical, and asked whether he had tried to filter the registrations to weed
out college students or military members who were forwarding their mail for
those reasons. He had not, the minutes of the hearing indicate. The challenges
were dismissed.
A Cobb County resident challenged more than 60
students at Kennesaw State University who used a general college address
instead of a specific dorm address on their registrations, along with dozens of
registrations that appeared to lack an apartment number. The county dismissed
the challenges.
In November, a Forsyth County woman challenged
the registration of the previous owner of her home, saying the person was
living in Texas and improperly using her address in Georgia, according to
minutes of the hearing that considered the challenge. The challenge was upheld.
The challenge laws have been on the books for
years; they were designed so voters could bring their personal knowledge to
officials, according to Janine Eveler, an 18-year veteran of the Cobb County
elections department.
Years ago, she filed a voter challenge to get
her in-laws off the voter rolls when they moved out of state.
“They knew what I was doing,” she said. “It was
personal knowledge I had. The code was originally intended for that sort of
thing, not for these mass challenges based on the change of address that’s been
filed.”
Cobb County has set a high bar for accepting
challenges, according to Eveler, but some counties have dedicated enormous
manpower to investigating the challengers’ claims.
In late August, VoterGA, a group that claims widespread election fraud and corruption,
worked with local residents to challenge the registrations of more than 37,500
voters in Gwinnett County — nearly 6% of the county’s voter rolls.
Gwinnett County’s Elections Supervisor Zach
Manifold said he had six to 10 people working long hours, frequently 60 to 70
hours a week, for nearly a month to evaluate each challenge.
At the end of the month, the Board of
Commissioners rejected the challenge as a whole. But his staff was now
exhausted, Manifold said, and heading straight into its busy election season.
Many of the challenges were based on changed
addresses, and he said members of his team had already reached out to those
voters to update their information and, in some cases, had begun the yearslong
process prescribed by federal law to remove out-of-date voter registrations
from the rolls.
“I don’t think they like that, depending on
where you’re at, it can take anywhere from five to nine years ... before you’re
actually canceled,” he said. "It’s federal law that we have to give people
this much time."
The disparity in how counties handle challenges
has caught the attention of a number of advocates, including the Brennan Center
and a number of Georgia voting rights groups who wrote a letter this month
urging the State Election Board to create a standardized process for counties
to respond to challenges.
“The upcoming election cycle will likely see
more mass challenges,” the groups wrote. “By creating rules before the cycle’s
administrative burdens become too intense, the board can help counties navigate
a thorny law with more clarity and efficiency.”
‘I don’t have faith in any of them’ says Karyl
Asta, 62, who doesn’t typically volunteer for campaigns or get involved in
politics — though she made an exception to wave signs for Republican Herschel
Walker during the recent Senate runoff — but she’s one of the Georgia residents
who has spent hours poring over the state's voter rolls in pursuit of getting
ineligible voters booted.
“It’s not hard. It’s just time-consuming,” she
said.
She will search for registered voters who have
filed with the post office to change their address and so perhaps have moved,
or examine voter rolls for registrations that lack an apartment number. She’s
challenged more than a thousand voter registrations this way, she said.
Asta said she doesn’t want to disenfranchise
eligible voters. She figures that if she's wrong, people can simply reaffirm
their registration or update it with election officials if sent a letter
informing them of the challenge. But she wants Cobb County to do more to clean
up the voter rolls and prevent fraud.
Asta said she distrusts the election system
because of the errors she’s seen — like a DeKalb County ballot-counting machine programming error that occurred in a 2022 primary.
Asked if she had faith in her state’s recent
election results, Asta said: “I don’t have faith in any of them.”
Back in Gwinnett, Manifold said the submissions
have continued this year, though so far the challenges are less broad and more
specific — "data cleanup things, instead of real mass challenges," he
said, like duplicate records.
Back in Gwinnett, Manifold said the submissions
have continued this year, though so far the challenges are less broad and more
specific — "data cleanup things, instead of real mass challenges," he
said, like duplicate records. "It's unending, we've had something like
nine filings since the beginning of the year," he said. "The groups
out there are still active."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/fraud-hunters-challenged-92k-georgia-voter-registrations-2022
Comments
The
data in the NBC article above may or may not be accurate. NBC is a Democrat
proxy. Democrats always accuse Republicans of what they themselves are doing.
It
should be clear that government statistics are unreliable estimates. The Voting
Process needs to be fool-proof and automated to ensure accuracy.
Changes
in resident’s addresses should be electronically accessible by those who are
tasked with updating voter rolls. Death
Certificates should be electronically accessible by those who are tasked with
updating voter rolls. Proof of citizenship via Birth Certificates should be
electronically accessible to those who are tasked with updating voter rolls and
those who issue Drivers Licenses.
Foreign drivers licenses should be accepted for non-citizens. Voting
should be by precinct.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea
Party Leader
