Despite Democratic outcry against the President’s Advisory Commission on Elections, facts continue to pile up demonstrating not only that there was considerable voter fraud during the 2016 election, but also that election officials in many states are reluctant to do anything about it.
According to an article in the Daily Signal, the Government Accountability Institute, founded by Peter Schweizer with the mission to “investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuses of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance” recently published a report on their investigation into voter registration in 21 states. Their study was limited to these states because others simply refused to turn over voter registration information or charged exorbitant fees to do so. In their investigation, they made several startling and troubling discoveries.
First, they tried to determine if voters had voted in two sites, say their home in New York City, for example and their summer home in Florida. Contracting with companies such as Virtual DBS who use commercial databases to cross-check individuals using Social Security numbers and other information, they were able to discover with nearly 100 percent certainty that thousands of individuals had indeed fraudulently voted in two different places. Extrapolating that number over the entire 50 states would suggest that as many as 45,000 voters may have fraudulently voted twice.
In New Jersey they found that over 30 percent of the registered voters have no drivers’ license or Social Security number on file. In addition, more than 15,000 voters used prohibited addresses such as Post Office boxes, UPS stores, and public buildings. More than 100 voters used the same UPS store address. Many hundreds of others used addresses which turned out to be vacant lots, abandoned buildings, warehouses, and office buildings. Rhode Island election officials, seemingly unconcerned, said they would send a letter to each of those voters (i.e. to the vacant lots and the abandoned buildings), but if they did not hear back, they would take no further action. The Government Accountability Institute could file voter challenges, but would face misdemeanor charges if they could not ultimately prove the voter fraud.
Records in other states were poorly kept and often with missing or inaccurate information. 45,880 individuals who voted in 2016, had birth dates that were as much as 115 years ago. Several hundreds of others had birth dates indicating that they were younger than 18 at the time of the election (von Spakovsky, Hans and Ben Janacek. Daily Signal, 7/28/17).
Judicial Watch found 11 California counties which had more registered voters than citizens of voting age. The percentages ranged from 102 to 144 percent of voting age citizens registered to vote. When contacted in June, Los Angeles County’s total number of voters was 144% that of its citizens of voting age.
In Massachusetts, four state employees were arrested for a scheme by which they provided illegal aliens with forged Puerto Rican birth certificates, then used those documents to give them authentic U.S. passports and drivers’ licenses which the illegals then used to go to Boston and vote.
A 21-year-old Virginia college student, Andrew Spieles, was recently convicted of falsifying 18 voter registrations which he prepared from “walk sheets” provided by the Virginia Democratic Party.
All of these examples demonstrate the continuing discovery of voter fraud in this country, and though they in themselves constitute only thousands rather than millions of possible fraudulent votes, even a few votes can make a difference. In the 2000 presidential election, the outcome was decided by only 537 votes out of the 105 million votes that were cast. In 2008, Al Franken won his Senate seat by only 312 votes in Minnesota, many of which have already been proven to have been fraudulent votes. In the 2012 presidential election, Hillary Clinton won New Hampshire by only 3,000 votes out of the 700,000 cast. Given the number of fraudulent votes that have been found elsewhere, a margin of only 3,000 votes could be problematic. Voter fraud exists, and it behooves this country, Republicans and Democrats alike, to find the fraudulent voters and ensure that such illegal votes can not take place in the future.