The next time a Dem tells you Crooked Hillary won the
majority of the popular vote and pooh-poohs President Trump’s claim that if the
fraudulent votes were discounted he won the popular vote too, tell them to read
the FACTS on voter fraud that has been accumulated to date.
The stats have not been all acquired. WHY? Big surprise: a
huge bulk of States are refusing to cooperate with the President Trump’s
Commission examining voter fraud in 2016!
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New Report Exposes Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2016
Election
July 28, 2017
A new bombshell study released by the
Government Accountability Institute shows why President Donald Trump’s Advisory
Commission on Election Integrity has such an important job ahead of it.
The institute concluded in
its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate
votes from people who registered and voted in more than one state.
The Government Accountability
Institute, founded by Peter Schweizer, author of “Clinton
Cash,” seeks to “investigate and expose crony
capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or
malfeasance.”
Over the last few months, the
institute sought to obtain “public voter information” from every state in order
to search for duplicate votes. This is the same type of information the president’s
Election Integrity Commission has requested.
With this report, we may have
a clue as to why some states are resisting providing this data.
The Government Accountability
Institute was able to obtain voter registration and voter history data from
only 21 states because while some states shared it freely, “others impose
exorbitant costs or refuse to comply with voter information requests.”
These 21 states represent
“about 17 percent of all possible state-to-state comparison combinations.”
The institute compared the
lists using an “extremely conservative matching approach that sought only to
identify two votes cast in the same legal name.” It found that 8,471 votes in
2016 were “highly likely” duplicates.
Extrapolating this to all 50
states would likely produce, with “high-confidence,” around 45,000 duplicate
votes.
The institute obtained this
level of confidence by matching not only names and birthdays—which can be the
same for different individuals—but also by contracting with companies, such as
Virtual DBS, that have commercial databases to further cross-check these
individuals using their Social Security numbers and other information.
According to the Government
Accountability Institute’s experts, “the probability of correctly matching two
records with the same name, birthdate, and Social Security number is close to
100 percent.” In fact, “using these match points will result in virtually zero
false positives.”
The probability of 45,000
illegal duplicate votes is the low end of the spectrum, and it does not even
account for other types of fraud such as ineligible voting by noncitizens and
felons and absentee ballot fraud.
To put this number of
fraudulent votes in perspective, Hillary Clinton won New Hampshire by fewer
than 3,000 votes out of over 700,000 cast. Just this number of duplicate votes
alone has the power to swing state results and, in turn, elections.
Unfortunately, New Hampshire
refused to turn over its data for this study.
There have been other
razor-tight elections in recent years. In 2000, the presidency was decided by
537 votes out of a total of 105 million cast. In 2008, Al Franken won his
Minnesota Senate race by a mere 312 votes. He ended up being the deciding vote
that gave this country Obamacare.
Though the institute did not
look at the 2008 elections in this study, there is little doubt that the 2016
numbers show that duplicate voting and voter fraud are a real problem that can
have serious consequential effects.
The Government Accountability
Institute also used the state of Rhode Island as a test case. Over 30 percent
of all registered voters in Rhode Island have no Social Security or driver’s
license number on file.
While it is legal to register
without providing this information, the institute notes that “confirming the
identities of some of these voters is impossible using only the data contained
in the state’s voter registration system.”
Without this “uniquely identifying
information … there is no way to confirm a voter’s identity or citizenship … ” This shows the
vulnerabilities that are ripe for any person or group wanting to take advantage
of them.
The institute also found more
than 15,000 voters registered at prohibited addresses “such as post office
boxes, UPS stores, federal post offices, and public buildings.” In some cases,
more than 100 voters “were registered to the same UPS store locations.”
They also found voters whose
registered addresses were “gas stations, vacant lots, abandoned mill buildings,
basketball courts, parks, warehouses, and office buildings.”
The institute tried to bring
some of these problems to the attention of Rhode Island election officials as
part of its test case. It provided officials with a list of 225 voters who
“were registered using prohibited addresses.”
But Rhode Island refused to
do anything about the problem beyond sending a letter to the voters. If a voter
did not respond, the state refused to take any further action.
Instead, in an obvious
attempt to deter the Government Accountability Institute, the state said that
the institute would have to file a “voter challenge” and would be subject to a
misdemeanor penalty if it filed a “false challenge.”
The fact that these election
officials did not want to thoroughly investigate possible voter fraud
illustrates one of the problems in this area: Too many election officials don’t
want to know about these problems, and refuse to do anything when it is brought
to their attention.
The Government Accountability
Institute points out that the quality of the voter registration data in some
states is very poor, with missing and obviously incorrect information. The
institute found 45,880 votes cast by individuals whose dates of birth were more
than 115 years before the election.
Several hundred votes were
cast by individuals whose registration birthdates “indicated they were under 18
years old at the time of the election,” although some of these were through
provisional ballots.
All of this is just the
latest evidence that we have serious, substantive problems in our voter
registration system across the country and that voter fraud is, without a
doubt, real.
The Heritage Foundation has
a database that is being
constantly updated. It documents nearly 1,100 proven instances of voter fraud,
including cases where elections were overturned because of proven fraud.
This kind of work, which the
Government Accountability Institute has done, will be invaluable to the
Election Integrity Commission as it researches the registration and voting
process and looks for ways to fix its vulnerabilities and security problems,
enhance our democratic process, and make sure every eligible American votes and
is not disenfranchised by illegal votes.
Election integrity and public
confidence in the election process are fundamental to preserving our democratic
republic.
Disclosure:
Hans von Spakovsky is a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on
Election Integrity mentioned in this article.
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Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a
wide range of issues—including civil rights, civil justice, the First
Amendment, immigration, the rule of law and government reform—as a senior legal
fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and
Judicial Studies and manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform
Initiative. Read his
research.
Ben Janacek is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage
Foundation.
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