You may remember almost 20 years ago the lefty activist group ACORN was taken down in James O’Keefe’s first video sting operation. ACORN was infamous in those days for paying massive numbers of election workers to do voter drives; most of those registered being phony, nonexistent, or just ridiculous. I recall here in Kentucky they would even turn in names like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse!
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ACORN was just the sloppiest of the many registration drive operations that persist to this day, funded by around $2 billion every election cycle in labor union soft money. They do so 1) To funnel “street money” into the hands of Democrat activists but also, 2) Exploit the so-called Motor Voter law.
This law only passed in 1993 with the help of the RINO senators Mark Hatfield and Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords. And then the voter fraud gates were open. It was sold as a way to just allow Driver License offices to accept voter registrations. Only, that wasn’t it.
Instead of providing some cards on a table at these government offices, the law required every license application to double as an actual voter registration application. An applicant must opt out with the license clerk to not effect a registration. Over the years, lots of people, without intending to, registered because this system so biased the work in that direction. Especially with non-citizens, felons, etc. A lot of people no doubt did register, even if they knew they should not (All that street money).
The law then made it extremely difficult for state and local government to purge the rolls. It also allowed people without a fixed address, or a driver’s license, or a Social Security number, to register all the same. In most states, such people are simply assigned an identifying number. What a mess.
When some states like California began mailing every registrant a mail-in ballot, the fun really began. Now there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of ballots going to non-eligible or departed voters. A bounty to be scooped up and filled out by all the union-paid ballot harvesters.
The recent New Jersey scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. Due to some unusual circumstances, that state eventually identified 6,600 people who had properly admitted in the Motor Voter application they were not citizens, but New Jersey registered them anyway. Other than this unique circumstance, the state and local governments have no idea if someone is an actual citizen. Even Real ID will not tell you. Only the federal government has such records.
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Last year the Trump administration finally started to allow the states access to federal databases that show both citizenship and dates of death. Turns out the number of ineligibles is enormous. And that was just in 10 Red States. I would like to see the same thing done for places like New York and California.
Now, a lot of vote fraud apologists such as the Brennan Center for Justice will tell you vote fraud is no big deal. Only they fight tooth and nail in every courtroom to stop the administration from using the same tools the Feds already use to scrutinize applicants for federal benefits. This information isn’t private from the government to begin with.
If there was no problem here, if fraudulent voting was a tiny number of people, why would they care? They wouldn’t. I think if we ever do get a proper accounting of all the voter rolls in every state, the American voting public is going to look a lot different.
It’s also important for conservatives to understand what isn’t happening — outright rigging of voting machines. Every paper ballot audit ever done has shown this has never happened. It is way beyond the technical sophistication of the American Left. That’s not what these people are good at anyway.
What they are good at is chaos. Hire a gang of thugs to protest, which then turns violent, which leads to cops being killed, etc. Demonize rather than debate, and eventually some nut takes a shot at Charlie Kirk or Donald Trump. Make politics so ugly and violent that ordinary people are turned off by the whole thing.
That’s how they win, and democracy loses; and making a travesty of voter integrity is all part of the plan.
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Frank Friday is an attorney in Louisville, KY.
