On Thursday, May 12, President Trump signed an order setting up the Presidential Commission on Voter Integrity, a bi-partisan committee to investigate voter fraud across the nation. The Chairman of the Commission is Mike Pence with Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach serving as his vice chair. As we would expect, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer immediately put out a statement saying in part, “President Trump has decided to waste taxpayer dollars chasing a unicorn and perpetuating the dangerous myth that widespread voter fraud exists” (FoxNews)
There are, of course, two things wrong with Mr. Schumer’s statement. First, wouldn’t every American, Republican or Democrat, honestly want to know if people, any people and in any number, are voting when that is not their right? I was in the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority in college, but that did not give me the right to attend and participate in meetings of the Chi Omegas. If I don’t belong to a certain country club, I can not use their facilities except as a guest of a member, and I certainly wouldn’t be allowed to vote on decisions about that club.
Even churches have membership rolls and those who attend but are not members generally can not vote in Congregational meetings. Shouldn’t our elections, which decide the leaders of our states and country be even more important? Even more closely monitored? Membership has meaning, folks!
Secondly, Mr. Schumer claims that the idea of widespread voter fraud is a myth. That, of course, is the official Democratic stance on the issue and is itself the probable myth. In my research over the last couple of days, I have found considerable evidence of voter fraud in elections over the last decade. Cases included spouses who voted for their dead husbands or wives, individuals who voted by mail and then showed up at the polls to vote again, election officials who were caught writing in votes on paper ballots when they were supposed to be counting them, felons who voted even though their voting rights were lost when they went to prison, illegals who voted, underage teenagers who voted (one used his report card as his identification), and the list goes on.
The Heritage Foundation has begun keeping tabs on voter fraud, and they have compiled over 755 cases where voter fraud convictions have been made. Here are just a few of the ones I found reported by Kelly Riddell in The Washington Times.
CBS affiliate’s evidence of voter fraud in Colorado in September sparked an immediate investigation by Secretary of State Wayne Williams.
A study by the watchdog Public Interest Legal Foundation found in just eight Virginia counties, 1,046 alien non-citizens successfully registered to vote. These aliens were only accidentally caught because when they renewed their driver’s license and self-reported, telling authorities they were non-citizens.
Allegations of voter fraud in September in Tarrant County, Texas, prompted a state investigation. There’s concern of so-called “vote-harvesting” where political operatives fill out and return other people’s ballots, without their consent.
According to an NBC news affiliate, Indiana State police are investigating voter fraud in 56 Indiana counties where individuals filled out possibly hundreds of registrations with made up names.
In September, the secretary of state’s office in Pennsylvania mailed about 2.5 million voter registration postcards to people who are not registered voters, but are licensed drivers. “There’s certainly the potential for hundreds, if not thousands, of foreigners here legally and illegally to be on our voter rolls, and a certain percentage who are casting ballots,” State Representative Daryl Metchalfe told LifeZette ( as quoted by Kelly Riddell).
John Gibbs of The Federalist reports, “According to a Pew Charitable Trust report from February 2012, one in eight voter registrations are ‘significantly inaccurate or no longer valid.’ Since there are 146 million Americans registered to vote, this translates to a stunning 18 million invalid voter registrations on the books. Further, ‘More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.’”
Mr. Gibbs goes on to explain that the Brennan Center at New York University claims that these allegations are a myth. The center argues that North Carolina, which passed comprehensive measures to prevent voter fraud (which were later struck down by four liberal judges), “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina” (The Federalist). However, as Mr. Gibbs so astutely argues, the lack of individuals charged with a crime is no proof that a crime was not committed. He gives the example of seat belt violations. “Does the fact that 103,733 people were cited for driving without a seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015 mean that only that many people were driving without seatbelts in Tennessee in 2015?” he asks. “Absolutely not,” he continues. “This can be proven easily because in 2014, the previous year, only 29,470 people were cited. The disparity is largely due to increased enforcement efforts in 2015. In other words, increasing enforcement of the crime revealed a much larger number of people committing the crime”(The Federalist).
The main argument by the left for not requiring proof of citizenship at the polling place is that it would suppress minority votes. However, Mr. Gibbs, who is himself black, points out that the voter turnout among blacks in North Carolina under the voter ID laws actually increased rather than decreasing.
It is also argued that any minor voter violations do not affect the outcome of an election, but in fact, voter fraud in Minnesota was most likely responsible for the passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that is now failing across the country. In 2008, Republican Senator Norm Coleman was running for re-election against Democrat Al Franken. Conservative journalist John Fund and former Bush Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky wrote a book about this race, entitled Who’s Counting. On the morning of the election, they relate, after 2.9 million people had already voted, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. Yet Franken won the election by 312 votes. Minnesota Majority found evidence of 1099 felons who had voted illegally and an investigation, required by Minnesota law, was begun. Soon, 243 people were either awaiting trial or had been already convicted. Unfortunately, the law requires that to be considered guilty, an individual has to admit he knew he was voting fraudulently. Any of those 1099 who simply lied and said they didn’t know they were doing anything wrong would not be charged with a crime. Of those 1099 fraudulent voters, it is probable that at least 312 voted for Franken, giving him the 60th Democratic seat in the Senate needed to pass Obamacare. Voter fraud does have consequences.
And it goes on. 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city [New York] and Florida, [and] The Daily News found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a left leaning organization, was under investigation in Wisconsin, Ohio, North Carolina, Colorado, Indiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Nevada in 2008 for turning in false voter registrations with names made up or copied out of the telephone directory.
Three professors at Old Dominion University, Jesse Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha and David C. Earnest, looked at nation polling by a consortium of universities in the 2016 election and determined that 6.4 percent of the approximately 20 million adult noncitizens voted in the presidential election. They then estimated that 834,381 of them probably voted for Hillary Clinton. After further research, they extrapolated that of a 19.4 million estimate of adult noncitizens in 2008, about 620,000 were illegally registered to vote in the 2008 presidential election. Using other measuring tools, they estimated that the number of noncitizen voters could be as high as 2.8 million.
Democrats ignore these examples as being isolated cases and charge that studies such as the one done by Richman, Chattha, and Earnest are simply wrong. And they do so for a very good reason. Most noncitizens vote Democratic since they are actively encouraged to do so by the Democratic party. Are all fraudulent voters Democrats? Of course not. There are cases of Republicans who have voted for dead spouses or added votes to paper ballots under their care. But by and large it is the Democrats who protect illegal voting by their rhetoric, encourage it by their actions, and benefit by its execution.
New York City Democratic Commissioner of the Board of Elections Alan Schulkin was caught on tape in October 2016 admitting to rampant voter fraud in his city. “They” — presumably meaning political machines — “put [people] in a bus and go poll site to poll site” in “certain neighborhoods,” he said (Townhall).
In another video, this one by Project Veritas, Democratic operative Scott Foval is caught admitting, “We’ve been bussing people in to deal with you f***in’ assholes [Republicans] for fifty years and we’re not going to stop now, we’re just going to find a different way to do it” (Cortney O’Brian. Townhall)
And it all comes from the top. Read this exchange between a young hispanic noncitizen and then President Obama before the election:
GINA RODRIQUEZ: Many of the millennials, DREAMers, undocumented citizens – and I call them citizens because they contribute to this country – are fearful of voting. So, if I vote, will immigration know where I live? Will they come for my family and deport us?
OBAMA: Not true. And the reason is, first of all, when you vote, you are a citizen yourself and there is not a situation where the voting rolls somehow are transferred over and people start investigating, etc. The sanctity of the vote is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for. If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote.
So there you have it. No illegals voting? No widespread voter fraud? Those are the myths. Voter fraud exists, it is grossly unfair to legal voters, and it must be stopped! Let’s hope this commission will find ways to prevent the nullification of the votes of citizens by those who have no right to vote in our elections.