IS VOTER FRAUD A VALID CONCERN?
Our ability to legally vote and ensure that our vote is properly counted is one of the underpinnings of a successful democracy, right up there with freedom of speech.
Is voter fraud a problem in the United States? Yes. How prevalent is voter fraud? The correct answer is, no one knows for sure because fraud is a crime and folks don’t go around advertising that they are breaking the law
Let’s take a snapshot of the current voter/voter registration problem across America and from that get an idea of why we do not yet know the results of the 3 November presidential election.
Generally, voter registration rolls are notoriously inaccurate and out of date, containing the names of voters who are deceased, have moved, or otherwise have become ineligible.
Millions of main-in ballots were sent out to potential voters. Many thousands of those ballots arrived in the mail for individuals who no longer reside at a registered address thereby risking that those ballots could have been stolen and voted.
California: A couple years ago it was determined that 1.5 million individuals were registered even though they no longer were eligible to vote. Actual cases: Disregarding several warnings, Mr. “Smith” was convicted of registering his four dogs and his deceased father to vote. Or take Mr. “Valdez”, an illegal alien from Mexico who voted multiple times under a false identity. Mr. “Jones” was involved in a scheme with eight other individuals where they solicited hundreds of false and/or forged signatures on voter registration forms by offering homeless people $1 and/or cigarettes for their participation. Other cases out of California include individuals who forged the signatures of voters, being paid $5 per signature.
North Carolina: In 2018 in the 9th Congressional District race was overturned because of illegal vote harvesting that included altering and forging absentee ballots.
Oregon: A survey found that five percent of registered voters admitted that other people marked their ballots (5% of 2.2 million registered voters equals 110,000 potential fraudulent actions). Additionally, 2.4% said someone else signed their ballots. It is suspected the actual number was much higher, given that most people would not want to admit being a party to a crime. Likely tens of thousands of mail-in ballots have been cast in Oregon by individuals other than the registered voter.
New Jersey: A candidate bribed voters with $50 payments for mail-in ballots.
The Election Assistance Commission found that 28.3 million ballots in federal elections between 2012 and 2018 were lost or disappeared in the mail.
Virginia: An investigation found 592 examples where registrants were simultaneously registered in another state. There are about 11,600 dead people on Virginia’s voter rolls, all of whom would have receive mail-in ballots.
New Mexico: The Public Interest Legal Foundation found more than 3,000 individuals registered multiple times; 1,700 registrants who are dead; 1,500 voters aged 100 or above, 64 of whom are over 120 years old. All of these supposed voters would have received mail-in ballots.
These are just a few examples of the ongoing voter fraud and election board stupidity in America. Collecting these examples just took a few minutes on Google. Imagine if we went state by state and searched out voting and voter registration investigations. Absentee and mail-in ballots are the tools of choice of election fraudsters because they can operate outside the supervision of election officials, making it easier to steal, forge, or alter ballots, as well as to intimidate voters.
Marvin Covault