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4/27/23 - Bloated Voter Rolls Make It Easy to Cheat in Elections
Here’s how election fraud is committed. First, you bloat the voter rolls, like keeping dead people on them. Next, you create a bunch of loose ballots floating around out there, like through universal mail-in balloting. Then, bad actors get ahold of loose ballots and vote them in the name of people who won’t vote because, for example, they’re dead or moved out of state. The last step is to match up illicitly cast ballots with registered voters in the election computer system to make it all look kosher, and you’re done.
Now do you understand why the Democrats ferociously resist cleaning the voter rolls at every turn, which is just common sense? Bloated voter rolls make it easy for the Democrats to cheat.
But people who care about election integrity are starting to get a handle on things:
A lawsuit by a watchdog group forced Colorado to start cleaning up its voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act. The state settled a lawsuit by agreeing to report its progress in removing ineligible voters to the group for six years. The number of ineligible voters removed per reporting period has already gone up. The watchdog group has achieved similar results in other states.
Virginia elections officials discovered 19,000 dead people were left on the rolls, supposedly because of a computer coding error. This will be corrected when the state’s new voter registration system is finished. Meanwhile, local elections officials are being given the authority to remove dead people from the rolls on the basis of an obituary or family notification, instead of requiring an official death certificate.
Wisconsin Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to start examining 3.8 million voter registrations in the state that are believed to be voters who are deceased, inactive, noncitizens, felons, or declared incompetent. The Governor is likely to veto the bill, but an override is a decent possibility.
A bill in the Texas Senate would suspend voters if they haven’t cast a ballot in more than two years. They’d be sent a notice and, if they fail to respond, they would be removed from the rolls after another two years. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a similar Ohio law in 2018.
Iowa follows a similar process, but with a twist. It moved half a million voters to inactive status after they didn’t vote in the election last fall. They’ll still get to vote through 2026, but the state no longer waits for voters to miss two consecutive general elections before starting the process of potentially removing them from the rolls.
Count on citizen and legal groups to keep banging away on cleaning up the voter rolls until the problem is cut down to size. Maine lost in court after it tried to restrict researchers from obtaining and using voter roll data to look for ineligible voters by comparing it to data from other states. Maine’s law originally restricted access to voter data to certain entities like political parties, but was amended to frustrate the lawsuit with, among other things, the state line restriction. The new restrictions were cooked up by Democrat lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists, and ERIC, a left-wing voter data nonprofit. But the court blew them all away, ruling the new restrictions thwarted Congress’ intent to achieve transparency under the National Voter Registration Act.
A group in Michigan has figured out how to give access to Michigan voter data to approved citizen researchers working at home on their own computers. Researchers can now see whether someone voted in past elections, uncover an impossible number of voters registered at the same address, and determine whether registrations belong to actual living persons at addresses of record.
Cleaning the voter rolls will be a never-ending process. For example, hundreds of noncitizens are on the voter rolls in Maricopa County Arizona. Some of them vote even though they are ineligible. The problem stems from the federal Motor Voter law, which requires states to allow people to register to vote at their local motor vehicle bureau when getting a driver’s license. Not an easy problem to solve, but the status quo is unacceptable, and people who care about election integrity will eventually get around to working on it.
Here’s how election fraud is committed. First, you bloat the voter rolls, like keeping dead people on them. Next, you create a bunch of loose ballots floating around out there, like through universal mail-in balloting. Then, bad actors get ahold of loose ballots and vote them in the name of people who won’t vote because, for example, they’re dead or moved out of state. The last step is to match up illicitly cast ballots with registered voters in the election computer system to make it all look kosher, and you’re done.
Now do you understand why the Democrats ferociously resist cleaning the voter rolls at every turn, which is just common sense? Bloated voter rolls make it easy for the Democrats to cheat.
But people who care about election integrity are starting to get a handle on things:
A lawsuit by a watchdog group forced Colorado to start cleaning up its voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act. The state settled a lawsuit by agreeing to report its progress in removing ineligible voters to the group for six years. The number of ineligible voters removed per reporting period has already gone up. The watchdog group has achieved similar results in other states.
Virginia elections officials discovered 19,000 dead people were left on the rolls, supposedly because of a computer coding error. This will be corrected when the state’s new voter registration system is finished. Meanwhile, local elections officials are being given the authority to remove dead people from the rolls on the basis of an obituary or family notification, instead of requiring an official death certificate.
Wisconsin Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to start examining 3.8 million voter registrations in the state that are believed to be voters who are deceased, inactive, noncitizens, felons, or declared incompetent. The Governor is likely to veto the bill, but an override is a decent possibility.
A bill in the Texas Senate would suspend voters if they haven’t cast a ballot in more than two years. They’d be sent a notice and, if they fail to respond, they would be removed from the rolls after another two years. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a similar Ohio law in 2018.
Iowa follows a similar process, but with a twist. It moved half a million voters to inactive status after they didn’t vote in the election last fall. They’ll still get to vote through 2026, but the state no longer waits for voters to miss two consecutive general elections before starting the process of potentially removing them from the rolls.
Count on citizen and legal groups to keep banging away on cleaning up the voter rolls until the problem is cut down to size. Maine lost in court after it tried to restrict researchers from obtaining and using voter roll data to look for ineligible voters by comparing it to data from other states. Maine’s law originally restricted access to voter data to certain entities like political parties, but was amended to frustrate the lawsuit with, among other things, the state line restriction. The new restrictions were cooked up by Democrat lawmakers, staffers, lobbyists, and ERIC, a left-wing voter data nonprofit. But the court blew them all away, ruling the new restrictions thwarted Congress’ intent to achieve transparency under the National Voter Registration Act.
A group in Michigan has figured out how to give access to Michigan voter data to approved citizen researchers working at home on their own computers. Researchers can now see whether someone voted in past elections, uncover an impossible number of voters registered at the same address, and determine whether registrations belong to actual living persons at addresses of record.
Cleaning the voter rolls will be a never-ending process. For example, hundreds of noncitizens are on the voter rolls in Maricopa County Arizona. Some of them vote even though they are ineligible. The problem stems from the federal Motor Voter law, which requires states to allow people to register to vote at their local motor vehicle bureau when getting a driver’s license. Not an easy problem to solve, but the status quo is unacceptable, and people who care about election integrity will eventually get around to working on it.
4/20/23 - How to Create the Largest Voter Fraud Operation in History
Dominion Voting Systems may have won a big settlement in its suit against Fox News, but new concerns about election technology have popped up.
But before we leave the subject of vote-counting machines, I must point out that the simultaneous stopping of vote counting in six swing states in the 2020 presidential election with Donald Trump ahead, then with Joe Biden ahead when counting resumed has never been explained. Until it is, don’t ask me to believe U.S. elections can’t be stolen. Don’t forget: the guy sitting in the Oval Office is the guy who said he created the largest voter fraud operation in history. Slip of the tongue, as his defenders say? You bet.
But on with the show. There are machines that count votes and there are other election-related technologies that perform other functions and can make our elections less secure. It’s amazing how the Left has wrapped its tentacles around all of it, but more is being challenged after being brought out into the light.
Concerns are mounting about “Albert Sensors”, installed in most states’ election systems by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) supposedly to detect network intrusions. But CIS is a left-wing private nonprofit, partnered with DHS, that is a major player in the federal government’s censorship scheme to suppress supposed ‘misinformation’ about the 2020 presidential election, a scheme now fully documented both through the Twitter Files and the Missouri-Louisiana censorship case in federal court. Unfortunately for CIS, there is no evidence the Albert Sensors have ever detected a single election network intrusion, but they have failed to detect some that did occur, leading some counties to cancel their contracts with CIS. So what are Albert Sensors really doing? Critics say the answer is: giving the federal government real-time data about the status of election results so results can be manipulated to get favored candidates installed in office fraudulently. It is said most elections officials aren’t even aware Albert Sensors are in use, much less what they can be used for.
There is also fresh news about Konnech, the Chinese-tied election administration software vendor suspected of shipping data about U.S. election workers to China. A recent whistleblower lawsuit makes detailed allegations about such data ending up in China. Another whistleblower stepped forward this month saying he personally witnessed U.S. election worker data being made available to people in China. Konnech is apparently making a show of dismissing its Chinese employees, but quietly rehiring them as independent contractors to perform the exact same duties. The whistleblower says the company told him to tell customers data was not being stored in China, where the Chinese Communist Party has access to it. Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in October for storing election worker data on Chinese servers in violation of its contract with Los Angeles County, but the charges were dropped for supposed ‘bias’ in the investigation. The County said it would assemble a more expert team to assess whether charges should be re-brought, but not a peep since.
Election integrity advocates are also concerned about software installed in 36 states that handles election management, election night reporting, and voter registration. It goes by various names, but it all ultimately traces back to one owner, a company called KowINK. Critics say the software is not certified and connects to the Internet where it can be hacked. An audit in New Mexico where the software is used found manipulation in voter rolls and election night reporting. Backdated entries were found in Hawaii’s voter registration database, suggesting the entries were fabricated. That apparently happened in North Carolina where there were unexplained entries appearing in current voter rolls that should have been in the publicly available historical copies, but weren’t.
Meanwhile, concerns continue to swirl around tabulators, the electronic voting machines that count votes. It was recently discovered the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) investigated ES&S machines right before the 2020 election for leaving touch-screen voting systems in as many as 19 states vulnerable to the installation of malicious or unapproved software. The Connecticut Secretary of State wants to replace ten-year-old tabulators that have become unreliable and can no longer be serviced because the company that made them went out of business.
If I wanted to create the largest voter fraud operation in history, I would certainly hand over large chunks of the electoral process to left-wing nonprofits whose actions leave no doubt whose side they’re on, and to the Chinese who are so contemptuous of elections they don’t even have them.
Dominion Voting Systems may have won a big settlement in its suit against Fox News, but new concerns about election technology have popped up.
But before we leave the subject of vote-counting machines, I must point out that the simultaneous stopping of vote counting in six swing states in the 2020 presidential election with Donald Trump ahead, then with Joe Biden ahead when counting resumed has never been explained. Until it is, don’t ask me to believe U.S. elections can’t be stolen. Don’t forget: the guy sitting in the Oval Office is the guy who said he created the largest voter fraud operation in history. Slip of the tongue, as his defenders say? You bet.
But on with the show. There are machines that count votes and there are other election-related technologies that perform other functions and can make our elections less secure. It’s amazing how the Left has wrapped its tentacles around all of it, but more is being challenged after being brought out into the light.
Concerns are mounting about “Albert Sensors”, installed in most states’ election systems by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) supposedly to detect network intrusions. But CIS is a left-wing private nonprofit, partnered with DHS, that is a major player in the federal government’s censorship scheme to suppress supposed ‘misinformation’ about the 2020 presidential election, a scheme now fully documented both through the Twitter Files and the Missouri-Louisiana censorship case in federal court. Unfortunately for CIS, there is no evidence the Albert Sensors have ever detected a single election network intrusion, but they have failed to detect some that did occur, leading some counties to cancel their contracts with CIS. So what are Albert Sensors really doing? Critics say the answer is: giving the federal government real-time data about the status of election results so results can be manipulated to get favored candidates installed in office fraudulently. It is said most elections officials aren’t even aware Albert Sensors are in use, much less what they can be used for.
There is also fresh news about Konnech, the Chinese-tied election administration software vendor suspected of shipping data about U.S. election workers to China. A recent whistleblower lawsuit makes detailed allegations about such data ending up in China. Another whistleblower stepped forward this month saying he personally witnessed U.S. election worker data being made available to people in China. Konnech is apparently making a show of dismissing its Chinese employees, but quietly rehiring them as independent contractors to perform the exact same duties. The whistleblower says the company told him to tell customers data was not being stored in China, where the Chinese Communist Party has access to it. Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in October for storing election worker data on Chinese servers in violation of its contract with Los Angeles County, but the charges were dropped for supposed ‘bias’ in the investigation. The County said it would assemble a more expert team to assess whether charges should be re-brought, but not a peep since.
Election integrity advocates are also concerned about software installed in 36 states that handles election management, election night reporting, and voter registration. It goes by various names, but it all ultimately traces back to one owner, a company called KowINK. Critics say the software is not certified and connects to the Internet where it can be hacked. An audit in New Mexico where the software is used found manipulation in voter rolls and election night reporting. Backdated entries were found in Hawaii’s voter registration database, suggesting the entries were fabricated. That apparently happened in North Carolina where there were unexplained entries appearing in current voter rolls that should have been in the publicly available historical copies, but weren’t.
Meanwhile, concerns continue to swirl around tabulators, the electronic voting machines that count votes. It was recently discovered the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) investigated ES&S machines right before the 2020 election for leaving touch-screen voting systems in as many as 19 states vulnerable to the installation of malicious or unapproved software. The Connecticut Secretary of State wants to replace ten-year-old tabulators that have become unreliable and can no longer be serviced because the company that made them went out of business.
If I wanted to create the largest voter fraud operation in history, I would certainly hand over large chunks of the electoral process to left-wing nonprofits whose actions leave no doubt whose side they’re on, and to the Chinese who are so contemptuous of elections they don’t even have them.
4/13/23 - Attack of the Computer-Generated Donation Mules
Today I show you we have a long way to go to clean up our elections.
The story making news is unemployed donors somehow being able to make scads of donations to Democrat political campaigns. This sprawling network of ‘donation harvesters and mules’, as they’ve come to be called, operates in several states. In Georgia, hundreds of unemployed donors gave over $24 million in 358,000 separate donations to Raphael Warnock’s campaign. In Washington state, an unemployed man made over 6,000 donations to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising site. In one Washington county, there were almost 20 times as many donations as there are residents. Experts suggest computer algorithms are actually laundering large donations through lots of individuals who have no idea their names are being used. Why would this be done? Perhaps to cover up money Democrats are getting from drug cartels and foreign countries, like China. If you don’t like those explanations, then you explain it to me.
Democrat funny money is not the only problem besetting our elections. Recent stories show:
Six hundred voters were allowed to vote absentee after the polls closed in Ann Arbor in violation of state law. Some whose votes were counted had registered the day AFTER the election.
Also in Michigan, when people move from one county to another, their voter history is changed to show voting activity in the new county which actually took place in the old county. This makes it impossible to “know exactly who voted where, when, and in what manner – absentee or in-person....” Seems kind of screwy to me. Citizen activists suggest this craziness is deliberate.
Noncitizens are automatically registered to vote in Washington state when they go for driver’s licenses, even though some protest they are not eligible. State officials say state law prevents them from verifying citizenship. Well, that’s quite a machine - automatic registration followed by ‘our hands are tied’. How about untying them, Washington state? The same or similar problems have been reported in other places, including California, if memory serves.
A whistleblower, a Democrat who worked in a Florida county elections office, said the creation, printing, and storage of ballots is not secure despite state regulations. For example, there are no security cameras in storage areas and the areas are easily accessible. In addition, chain of custody forms for mail-in ballots received are often missing.
A citizens group in Maricopa County Arizona found, based on sampling, over a hundred thousand ballot envelope signatures were completely different from the signatures on file. The group also found affidavits unsigned or signed by someone other than the voter. In addition, there were dead voters, people who voted more than once, and voter registration forms with incorrect signatures.
California, which now mails ballots to all active registered voters could not account for 10 million ballots that went missing in the 2022 midterms. That’s a lot of ballots out there to be scooped up by unscrupulous post office workers, and from apartment building lobbies and elsewhere that could be used to commit election fraud. Not exactly a tight process, is it? But it’s the way the Democrats want the whole country to go.
Lots of citizen activists across the country are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen and to tighten elections processes back up to the point where we can have confidence in our elections again.
Today I show you we have a long way to go to clean up our elections.
The story making news is unemployed donors somehow being able to make scads of donations to Democrat political campaigns. This sprawling network of ‘donation harvesters and mules’, as they’ve come to be called, operates in several states. In Georgia, hundreds of unemployed donors gave over $24 million in 358,000 separate donations to Raphael Warnock’s campaign. In Washington state, an unemployed man made over 6,000 donations to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising site. In one Washington county, there were almost 20 times as many donations as there are residents. Experts suggest computer algorithms are actually laundering large donations through lots of individuals who have no idea their names are being used. Why would this be done? Perhaps to cover up money Democrats are getting from drug cartels and foreign countries, like China. If you don’t like those explanations, then you explain it to me.
Democrat funny money is not the only problem besetting our elections. Recent stories show:
Six hundred voters were allowed to vote absentee after the polls closed in Ann Arbor in violation of state law. Some whose votes were counted had registered the day AFTER the election.
Also in Michigan, when people move from one county to another, their voter history is changed to show voting activity in the new county which actually took place in the old county. This makes it impossible to “know exactly who voted where, when, and in what manner – absentee or in-person....” Seems kind of screwy to me. Citizen activists suggest this craziness is deliberate.
Noncitizens are automatically registered to vote in Washington state when they go for driver’s licenses, even though some protest they are not eligible. State officials say state law prevents them from verifying citizenship. Well, that’s quite a machine - automatic registration followed by ‘our hands are tied’. How about untying them, Washington state? The same or similar problems have been reported in other places, including California, if memory serves.
A whistleblower, a Democrat who worked in a Florida county elections office, said the creation, printing, and storage of ballots is not secure despite state regulations. For example, there are no security cameras in storage areas and the areas are easily accessible. In addition, chain of custody forms for mail-in ballots received are often missing.
A citizens group in Maricopa County Arizona found, based on sampling, over a hundred thousand ballot envelope signatures were completely different from the signatures on file. The group also found affidavits unsigned or signed by someone other than the voter. In addition, there were dead voters, people who voted more than once, and voter registration forms with incorrect signatures.
California, which now mails ballots to all active registered voters could not account for 10 million ballots that went missing in the 2022 midterms. That’s a lot of ballots out there to be scooped up by unscrupulous post office workers, and from apartment building lobbies and elsewhere that could be used to commit election fraud. Not exactly a tight process, is it? But it’s the way the Democrats want the whole country to go.
Lots of citizen activists across the country are working very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen and to tighten elections processes back up to the point where we can have confidence in our elections again.
4/6/23 - Paper Ballots Beckon
Problems with electronic voting machines continue to make news.
The Shasta County supervisors in California got rid of Dominion voting machines and went to hand-counting paper ballots for future elections. Shasta County joins Nye County in Nevada and Osage County in Missouri in making this move.
It’s not hard to understand the antipathy towards voting machines. We start with the fact machine vote counting stopped simultaneously in the middle of the night in six swing states in the 2020 election with Trump ahead and, somehow, Biden was ahead when counting resumed. That’s never been explained and, as a government minister said, it’s the same technology they use to steal elections in Venezuela. Then we had the first court-ordered forensic audit of voting machines after the 2020 election in Antrim County Michigan which found their machines deliberately created a 68 error rate in the results right off the bat that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. Those aren’t machines that count votes. Those are machines that do something else.
Other problems with voting machines have been reported more recently:
What will happen with voting machines in Arizona is not yet known but, given all the problems with voting machines, don’t be surprised to see more jurisdictions moving to paper ballots in the future.
Problems with electronic voting machines continue to make news.
The Shasta County supervisors in California got rid of Dominion voting machines and went to hand-counting paper ballots for future elections. Shasta County joins Nye County in Nevada and Osage County in Missouri in making this move.
It’s not hard to understand the antipathy towards voting machines. We start with the fact machine vote counting stopped simultaneously in the middle of the night in six swing states in the 2020 election with Trump ahead and, somehow, Biden was ahead when counting resumed. That’s never been explained and, as a government minister said, it’s the same technology they use to steal elections in Venezuela. Then we had the first court-ordered forensic audit of voting machines after the 2020 election in Antrim County Michigan which found their machines deliberately created a 68 error rate in the results right off the bat that elections officials could then fill in any way they wanted. Those aren’t machines that count votes. Those are machines that do something else.
Other problems with voting machines have been reported more recently:
- Dominion executives admitted their machines are not secure, can be hacked, and are “riddled with bugs” that can lead to incorrect results.
- A federal cybersecurity agency (CISA) admitted election systems in Georgia have serious problems that could allow bad actors to “fix election results”.
- A voter registration and election management system in use in several states (BPro) is uncertified, untested, and connected to the Internet allowing parties in and out of government to access it. It can connect with the left-wing nonprofit ERIC and allow the use of plug-ins that can change results.
- Irregularities were discovered in the machine tabulation of the results of a New Jersey school board race after human error during software installation allowed results on USB drives to be counted twice. An audit failed to catch the problem, which was only discovered later by accident. The problem was so serious it may flip the outcome in the race.
- A cybersecurity expert recently demonstrated how he could hack voting machines and change results without leaving a trace. The problem stems from widely-used SQL management software which is not certified and bypasses security features. He easily manipulated the database with a cell phone and didn’t even have to enter a password.
- Another expert disclosed that voting machines in Wisconsin can be hacked, despite years of denials by election officials there.
- Another expert testified before an Arizona Senate committee it’s easy to write code to change voting machine results without a trace. He said machines can be hacked in lots of ways and can never be secured. The only way to have a secure election is not to use machines, he said.
What will happen with voting machines in Arizona is not yet known but, given all the problems with voting machines, don’t be surprised to see more jurisdictions moving to paper ballots in the future.
3/30/23 - How the Democrats Weaponize the Elections Process
Today, I argue the Democrats are weaponizing the elections process to rig elections in their favor. Before I give you examples, let me first say that the recent exit of several states from ERIC - the thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats posing as a voter list maintenance operation - shows it is possible to undo the weaponization. The days of Republicans and the political Right playing the patsy are over.
The first example of weaponization is federal DHS funding of a nonprofit called the Center for Internet Security to provide cybersecurity services to county elections offices free of charge. The Center is not an honest broker. It was instrumental in flagging supposed election ‘misinformation’ for the government / Big Tech censorship enterprise now well-known because of the release of the Twitter files and the Missouri court case. So what we have here is censorship masquerading as cybersecurity. This is the same artifice the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) uses in claiming that preventing ‘misinformation’ is somehow part of their mission to protect critical infrastructure. Critics say states are perfectly capable of strengthening cybersecurity in the elections process on their own, citing Florida as an example.
Another left-wing nonprofit - U.S. Digital Response - purports to help local elections officials with better digital tools to run elections. It’s funded by big money from the Left, including the Ford Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It’s tied in with other left-wing entities which are all part of what has come to be called ‘Zuckerbucks’, the dubious private financing of elections. Critics say US Digital Response in actuality works to help left-wing candidates win elections.
These are not the only nonprofits engaged in 501(c)(3) abuse - doing things never contemplated when tax-exempt status was initiated. These so-called charities, which are supposed to be in the business of educating the public, have been weaponized to turn out likely Democrat voters in elections. They are legally prohibited from conducting partisan voter registration drives, but get around the law by microtargeting certain demographics - “unmarried women, people of color, Millennials, Gen Z, and other historically under-represented groups in the electorate” - all of which lean Democrat. Prominent nonprofits engaged in this effort include the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information. They promote mail-in voting and ignore uncompetitive red states. Critics have called for banning nonprofit voter registration drives.
State and local governments are also weaponizing elections. A bill in the Democrat-controlled Michigan legislature would reduce citizen participation in the elections process under the guise of keeping election workers ‘safe’. If enacted, all elections officials would have to do is claim they feel ‘intimidated’ or ‘harassed’ and citizen poll watchers could be slapped with felony charges. Democrats keep saying elections officials are being threatened but haven’t produced much evidence of that, so far. So this is a bill that addresses a non-problem but in actuality makes it easier for the Democrats to cheat in elections.
East Lansing is compelling landlords to help register new tenants to vote, another likely Democrat constituency. The landlords have sued, arguing this is unconstitutional compelled speech. Chicago is pressuring inmates to vote in elections. They are another likely Democrat constituency. The inmates themselves are objecting, saying they are not registered to vote or are registered elsewhere. Critics say the city is engaged in illegal ballot harvesting and scooping up votes where there are no cameras or poll watchers. Seattle has been handing out taxpayer-funded “democracy dollars” to another likely Democrat constituency - low-income residents - since 2015. These are $100 worth of gift cards the voters can direct to their favorite political campaigns. I don’t know how that’s legal, but it shouldn’t be. You can bet if this scheme benefitted the Republicans, the Democrats in control of Seattle wouldn’t be doing it.
All of this may seem like small potatoes to you, but here’s where it’s headed if Democrat weaponization of the elections process is left unchecked: Tens of thousands gathered last month to protest election law changes in Mexico. Critics say the changes hobble the election agency that helped end one-party rule there. I guarantee you there are Democrats in the U.S. who are looking at that and wondering to themselves, ‘how can we do that here? How can we rig the elections process, achieve one-party rule, and never get voted out again?’ If this sounds implausible to you after hearing the stories I told you about today, all I can say is you’re naïve. The stories show you without question the Democrats are up to no good.
Today, I argue the Democrats are weaponizing the elections process to rig elections in their favor. Before I give you examples, let me first say that the recent exit of several states from ERIC - the thinly disguised get-out-the-vote effort for Democrats posing as a voter list maintenance operation - shows it is possible to undo the weaponization. The days of Republicans and the political Right playing the patsy are over.
The first example of weaponization is federal DHS funding of a nonprofit called the Center for Internet Security to provide cybersecurity services to county elections offices free of charge. The Center is not an honest broker. It was instrumental in flagging supposed election ‘misinformation’ for the government / Big Tech censorship enterprise now well-known because of the release of the Twitter files and the Missouri court case. So what we have here is censorship masquerading as cybersecurity. This is the same artifice the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) uses in claiming that preventing ‘misinformation’ is somehow part of their mission to protect critical infrastructure. Critics say states are perfectly capable of strengthening cybersecurity in the elections process on their own, citing Florida as an example.
Another left-wing nonprofit - U.S. Digital Response - purports to help local elections officials with better digital tools to run elections. It’s funded by big money from the Left, including the Ford Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It’s tied in with other left-wing entities which are all part of what has come to be called ‘Zuckerbucks’, the dubious private financing of elections. Critics say US Digital Response in actuality works to help left-wing candidates win elections.
These are not the only nonprofits engaged in 501(c)(3) abuse - doing things never contemplated when tax-exempt status was initiated. These so-called charities, which are supposed to be in the business of educating the public, have been weaponized to turn out likely Democrat voters in elections. They are legally prohibited from conducting partisan voter registration drives, but get around the law by microtargeting certain demographics - “unmarried women, people of color, Millennials, Gen Z, and other historically under-represented groups in the electorate” - all of which lean Democrat. Prominent nonprofits engaged in this effort include the Voter Participation Center and the Center for Voter Information. They promote mail-in voting and ignore uncompetitive red states. Critics have called for banning nonprofit voter registration drives.
State and local governments are also weaponizing elections. A bill in the Democrat-controlled Michigan legislature would reduce citizen participation in the elections process under the guise of keeping election workers ‘safe’. If enacted, all elections officials would have to do is claim they feel ‘intimidated’ or ‘harassed’ and citizen poll watchers could be slapped with felony charges. Democrats keep saying elections officials are being threatened but haven’t produced much evidence of that, so far. So this is a bill that addresses a non-problem but in actuality makes it easier for the Democrats to cheat in elections.
East Lansing is compelling landlords to help register new tenants to vote, another likely Democrat constituency. The landlords have sued, arguing this is unconstitutional compelled speech. Chicago is pressuring inmates to vote in elections. They are another likely Democrat constituency. The inmates themselves are objecting, saying they are not registered to vote or are registered elsewhere. Critics say the city is engaged in illegal ballot harvesting and scooping up votes where there are no cameras or poll watchers. Seattle has been handing out taxpayer-funded “democracy dollars” to another likely Democrat constituency - low-income residents - since 2015. These are $100 worth of gift cards the voters can direct to their favorite political campaigns. I don’t know how that’s legal, but it shouldn’t be. You can bet if this scheme benefitted the Republicans, the Democrats in control of Seattle wouldn’t be doing it.
All of this may seem like small potatoes to you, but here’s where it’s headed if Democrat weaponization of the elections process is left unchecked: Tens of thousands gathered last month to protest election law changes in Mexico. Critics say the changes hobble the election agency that helped end one-party rule there. I guarantee you there are Democrats in the U.S. who are looking at that and wondering to themselves, ‘how can we do that here? How can we rig the elections process, achieve one-party rule, and never get voted out again?’ If this sounds implausible to you after hearing the stories I told you about today, all I can say is you’re naïve. The stories show you without question the Democrats are up to no good.
3/23/23 - The Rise and Fall of ERIC
Recent news shows it’s possible to undo the Democrats’ weaponization of our elections apparatus.
Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia joined Louisiana and Alabama in leaving ERIC, the voter registration data clearinghouse conservatives say is really a get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats. ERIC is the Electronic Registration Information Center, initially funded with George Soros money [more documentation here] and, until recently, overseen by a high-profile Democrat election lawyer. ERIC is supposed to help member states scrub their voter rolls of deceased and moved-away voters, but one of the complaints is that ERIC does a bad job, leaving the rolls bloated and elections vulnerable to fraud as a result.
Ohio and Iowa are the latest states to leave ERIC. Alaska and Texas may follow. States are leaving for many reasons. One of the reasons Louisiana gave was the overall Democrat tilt to the entire operation. Alabama was worried about a private group having access to voter data, among other things. Ohio had asked for changes and left when none were forthcoming. At this point, ERIC only serves the interests of the Democrats, Ohio’s Secretary of State said in a letter.
These are not the only problems with ERIC. It recently came to light ERIC has been sharing data with a left-wing nonprofit - the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) - run by the very same high-profile Democrat election lawyer mentioned earlier (David Becker) who founded and only recently departed ERIC. The data pinpointed likely Democrat voters who had not yet registered to vote so they could be targeted for partisan registration drives.
As if illicit data sharing were not enough, ERIC also restricts states from acting against noncitizens registered to vote and tells states to keep their list maintenance data secret even though federal law requires it be made public. Other critics point out states are legally obligated to maintain their voter rolls and nothing in law allows them to outsource that function to outside private third parties, to begin with. In addition, according to an election integrity activist in my network, ERIC also requires member states to move to "online only" voter registration to eliminate signed voter registration documents. This completely frustrates signature verification requirements between registration documents and mail-in ballots in those states that require such verification. Still other critics reinforce the perception, stated at the outset, that ERIC is far more effective at identifying potential voters for the Democrats than keeping the voter rolls up to date.
States are scrambling for alternatives. Texas is developing an interstate crosscheck system to eliminate duplicate registrations. There used to be such a system, but the left-wing ACLU sued it out of existence, clearing the field for ERIC. Activists in Maryland point to one piece of the puzzle, a free service from the Post Office that standardizes addresses and tells you whether mail is deliverable there. Then there is the Omega4America operation that hopes to be in 15 or 20 states in 2024. It checks voter rolls against publicly available information to sniff out problem addresses in the records like hotels, RV parks, and prisons where felons are not supposed to vote. It can also ferret out fraud by elections officials if, for example, they change inactive voters to active status in the records wholesale, mail them ballots that get intercepted, then change the records back to inactive status.
ERIC is just one way the Democrats have weaponized elections. I’ll show you more when I return to the subject of election integrity next week.
Recent news shows it’s possible to undo the Democrats’ weaponization of our elections apparatus.
Florida, Missouri, and West Virginia joined Louisiana and Alabama in leaving ERIC, the voter registration data clearinghouse conservatives say is really a get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats. ERIC is the Electronic Registration Information Center, initially funded with George Soros money [more documentation here] and, until recently, overseen by a high-profile Democrat election lawyer. ERIC is supposed to help member states scrub their voter rolls of deceased and moved-away voters, but one of the complaints is that ERIC does a bad job, leaving the rolls bloated and elections vulnerable to fraud as a result.
Ohio and Iowa are the latest states to leave ERIC. Alaska and Texas may follow. States are leaving for many reasons. One of the reasons Louisiana gave was the overall Democrat tilt to the entire operation. Alabama was worried about a private group having access to voter data, among other things. Ohio had asked for changes and left when none were forthcoming. At this point, ERIC only serves the interests of the Democrats, Ohio’s Secretary of State said in a letter.
These are not the only problems with ERIC. It recently came to light ERIC has been sharing data with a left-wing nonprofit - the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) - run by the very same high-profile Democrat election lawyer mentioned earlier (David Becker) who founded and only recently departed ERIC. The data pinpointed likely Democrat voters who had not yet registered to vote so they could be targeted for partisan registration drives.
As if illicit data sharing were not enough, ERIC also restricts states from acting against noncitizens registered to vote and tells states to keep their list maintenance data secret even though federal law requires it be made public. Other critics point out states are legally obligated to maintain their voter rolls and nothing in law allows them to outsource that function to outside private third parties, to begin with. In addition, according to an election integrity activist in my network, ERIC also requires member states to move to "online only" voter registration to eliminate signed voter registration documents. This completely frustrates signature verification requirements between registration documents and mail-in ballots in those states that require such verification. Still other critics reinforce the perception, stated at the outset, that ERIC is far more effective at identifying potential voters for the Democrats than keeping the voter rolls up to date.
States are scrambling for alternatives. Texas is developing an interstate crosscheck system to eliminate duplicate registrations. There used to be such a system, but the left-wing ACLU sued it out of existence, clearing the field for ERIC. Activists in Maryland point to one piece of the puzzle, a free service from the Post Office that standardizes addresses and tells you whether mail is deliverable there. Then there is the Omega4America operation that hopes to be in 15 or 20 states in 2024. It checks voter rolls against publicly available information to sniff out problem addresses in the records like hotels, RV parks, and prisons where felons are not supposed to vote. It can also ferret out fraud by elections officials if, for example, they change inactive voters to active status in the records wholesale, mail them ballots that get intercepted, then change the records back to inactive status.
ERIC is just one way the Democrats have weaponized elections. I’ll show you more when I return to the subject of election integrity next week.
3/16/23 - How the Democrats Bake Systemic Fraud Into Our Elections
Last week, I told you about individual wrongdoers - mostly Democrats - who were arrested and sent to jail for voter fraud. But criminal wrongdoing in our elections is also perpetrated - again, mostly by Democrats - by election officials, Democrat and left-wing advocacy groups, and other systemic players engaged in wholesale fraud.
Starting with election officials, a Republican county elections commissioner in New York was charged with 12 felony counts of using other people’s identifications to request, complete, and submit absentee ballots. A Democrat township clerk in Michigan who was also a candidate was convicted of felony ballot tampering for opening a sealed ballot canister, invalidating the votes inside. The Democrat New Mexico Secretary of State is accused of unlawfully receiving county election totals before counties certify results and using an uncertified software program to add up the totals. Elections officials in Oakland, California are accused of ignoring a court order, unsealing ballot boxes without public observation, and making it impossible for citizen observers to monitor and understand the vote tallying process.
Lawless election officials are not the only source of systemic wrongdoing in our elections. Left-wing and Democrat advocacy groups are major sources, as well. The Virginia Democratic Party ballot harvesting manual instructs party activists to include dead people and bad addresses when compiling voter contact lists. This information goes into a party database which is used to target likely Democrat voters. The Democrat Party did not respond when asked about this.
Left-leaning nonprofits like the Center for Voter Information and the Voter Participation Center are abusing their 501(c)(3) tax status by registering likely Democrat voters. Targeting particular demographic groups likely to vote Democrat skirts IRS rules preventing tax-exempt organizations from engaging in partisan activity.
In Wisconsin, a leftist group paid voters $250 if they succeeded in persuading their friends to vote for the Leftist candidate in the state Supreme Court race. Under state law, it is felony bribery to give anything of value to any person for inducing others to vote or not vote for or against particular candidates.
The Federal Election Commission received but has ignored information about campaign ‘money mules’ operating in Missouri, Georgia, and elsewhere. Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia was the top beneficiary identified in the scheme. To give you some idea of how the scheme works, ‘Steven in Missouri’ was somehow able to make over 14,000 campaign donations totaling $180,000 in two years despite being unemployed. Something’s not right with this picture.
Yet more systemic election fraud is found in a Florida county where felons vote illegally, dead voters are sent mail-in ballots, voter addresses are changed without request, and individuals are putting multiple ballots into drop boxes despite being limited under state law to two. This information came from a whistleblower inside an elections office who was upset these problems were not being addressed. The office is run by a Democrat and would not respond to questions.
Here is one more way systemic fraud can occur: County officials can change the zip code of tens of thousands of voters all at once. Mail ballots go out, but the ones with the wrong zip code are undeliverable. Someone scoops them up, then the elections office changes the zip codes back. Voters go to the polls, only to be told they already voted, their ballot has already been cast by somebody else. A new data company uncovered this kind of fraud in Wisconsin and Florida, including one county where more than 31,000 zip codes were changed this way. The company bought daily voter rolls and tracked zip code changes, discovering how the game is played.
We are supposed to have representative government in this country. But we cannot be assured of true representation unless systemic fraud, perpetrated mostly by Democrats, is rooted out from the elections process.
Last week, I told you about individual wrongdoers - mostly Democrats - who were arrested and sent to jail for voter fraud. But criminal wrongdoing in our elections is also perpetrated - again, mostly by Democrats - by election officials, Democrat and left-wing advocacy groups, and other systemic players engaged in wholesale fraud.
Starting with election officials, a Republican county elections commissioner in New York was charged with 12 felony counts of using other people’s identifications to request, complete, and submit absentee ballots. A Democrat township clerk in Michigan who was also a candidate was convicted of felony ballot tampering for opening a sealed ballot canister, invalidating the votes inside. The Democrat New Mexico Secretary of State is accused of unlawfully receiving county election totals before counties certify results and using an uncertified software program to add up the totals. Elections officials in Oakland, California are accused of ignoring a court order, unsealing ballot boxes without public observation, and making it impossible for citizen observers to monitor and understand the vote tallying process.
Lawless election officials are not the only source of systemic wrongdoing in our elections. Left-wing and Democrat advocacy groups are major sources, as well. The Virginia Democratic Party ballot harvesting manual instructs party activists to include dead people and bad addresses when compiling voter contact lists. This information goes into a party database which is used to target likely Democrat voters. The Democrat Party did not respond when asked about this.
Left-leaning nonprofits like the Center for Voter Information and the Voter Participation Center are abusing their 501(c)(3) tax status by registering likely Democrat voters. Targeting particular demographic groups likely to vote Democrat skirts IRS rules preventing tax-exempt organizations from engaging in partisan activity.
In Wisconsin, a leftist group paid voters $250 if they succeeded in persuading their friends to vote for the Leftist candidate in the state Supreme Court race. Under state law, it is felony bribery to give anything of value to any person for inducing others to vote or not vote for or against particular candidates.
The Federal Election Commission received but has ignored information about campaign ‘money mules’ operating in Missouri, Georgia, and elsewhere. Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia was the top beneficiary identified in the scheme. To give you some idea of how the scheme works, ‘Steven in Missouri’ was somehow able to make over 14,000 campaign donations totaling $180,000 in two years despite being unemployed. Something’s not right with this picture.
Yet more systemic election fraud is found in a Florida county where felons vote illegally, dead voters are sent mail-in ballots, voter addresses are changed without request, and individuals are putting multiple ballots into drop boxes despite being limited under state law to two. This information came from a whistleblower inside an elections office who was upset these problems were not being addressed. The office is run by a Democrat and would not respond to questions.
Here is one more way systemic fraud can occur: County officials can change the zip code of tens of thousands of voters all at once. Mail ballots go out, but the ones with the wrong zip code are undeliverable. Someone scoops them up, then the elections office changes the zip codes back. Voters go to the polls, only to be told they already voted, their ballot has already been cast by somebody else. A new data company uncovered this kind of fraud in Wisconsin and Florida, including one county where more than 31,000 zip codes were changed this way. The company bought daily voter rolls and tracked zip code changes, discovering how the game is played.
We are supposed to have representative government in this country. But we cannot be assured of true representation unless systemic fraud, perpetrated mostly by Democrats, is rooted out from the elections process.
3/9/23 - ‘There Is No Voter Fraud’
Democrats like to claim there is no voter fraud, but there’s still plenty wrong with our elections, as you’re about to see.
A Staten Island grand jury reported rampant ballot harvesting fraud in connection with a city council race in 2021. The vote of a deceased person and others were harvested, dozens through signature fraud on absentee ballots. The situation was called “the poster child for the necessity of voter ID laws.” Sources say the report was about a Republican candidate in a primary election.
That story was about a Republican but, for every story about a Republican committing voter fraud, I see many more about Democrats.
Let’s start with Democrat politicians. Two Democrat politicians in Louisiana were sentenced to 12 months in prison for their part in a vote-buying scheme. The two hired others to show sample ballots to voters with the desired candidates marked, then offered payment and transported voters to the polls. A Democrat city council member in Lodi was arrested for election fraud after allegedly stashing dozens of mail-in ballots at his home, filing multiple false voter registration documents, and pressuring people into voting for him. A Democrat county commissioner in Alabama was charged with illegally harvesting hundreds of ballots and stuffing them into a voting machine in favor of his preferred candidates in two elections. A Democrat Party chair in Stamford received a suspended sentence for forging absentee ballots in a 2015 city election.
The Brooklyn D.A. is investigating local Democrats for adding people’s names to petitions they didn’t sign and demanding bribes. One resident who tried to get a job as a poll worker was told she had to gather petition signatures supporting Democrat Party leaders. This calls to mind the James O’Keefe undercover sting video of a New York City elections commissioner discussing rampant voter fraud in 2016, with people being bused around to vote.
I also see lots of voter fraud stories where party affiliation is not mentioned, but which show just how deep the problems with our elections are. A Georgia man was sentenced to 25 years for voting twice and forging election documents in connection with absentee balloting. There’s that absentee balloting problem again - a real weakness in our elections when not carefully controlled. Two Florida men went to prison for registering dead people to vote and forging names on voter registration forms and ballot petitions. In all, 20 people have been charged with election-related crimes in Florida since an elections crimes unit was established last year, although not all were convicted.
The Heritage Foundation recently added ten new proven cases of election fraud to more than 1,400 others in the Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. Three of the new cases involved felons voting when they were not allowed. In another case, a Florida man was convicted of requesting, filling out, and submitting a ballot in the name of his son who had moved away to New Mexico. The son reported someone had voted in his name, leading to the man’s arrest. Talk about karma.
Elections officials and left-wing groups are also engaged in election fraud. I’ll tell you about that when I come back to this subject next week.
Democrats like to claim there is no voter fraud, but there’s still plenty wrong with our elections, as you’re about to see.
A Staten Island grand jury reported rampant ballot harvesting fraud in connection with a city council race in 2021. The vote of a deceased person and others were harvested, dozens through signature fraud on absentee ballots. The situation was called “the poster child for the necessity of voter ID laws.” Sources say the report was about a Republican candidate in a primary election.
That story was about a Republican but, for every story about a Republican committing voter fraud, I see many more about Democrats.
Let’s start with Democrat politicians. Two Democrat politicians in Louisiana were sentenced to 12 months in prison for their part in a vote-buying scheme. The two hired others to show sample ballots to voters with the desired candidates marked, then offered payment and transported voters to the polls. A Democrat city council member in Lodi was arrested for election fraud after allegedly stashing dozens of mail-in ballots at his home, filing multiple false voter registration documents, and pressuring people into voting for him. A Democrat county commissioner in Alabama was charged with illegally harvesting hundreds of ballots and stuffing them into a voting machine in favor of his preferred candidates in two elections. A Democrat Party chair in Stamford received a suspended sentence for forging absentee ballots in a 2015 city election.
The Brooklyn D.A. is investigating local Democrats for adding people’s names to petitions they didn’t sign and demanding bribes. One resident who tried to get a job as a poll worker was told she had to gather petition signatures supporting Democrat Party leaders. This calls to mind the James O’Keefe undercover sting video of a New York City elections commissioner discussing rampant voter fraud in 2016, with people being bused around to vote.
I also see lots of voter fraud stories where party affiliation is not mentioned, but which show just how deep the problems with our elections are. A Georgia man was sentenced to 25 years for voting twice and forging election documents in connection with absentee balloting. There’s that absentee balloting problem again - a real weakness in our elections when not carefully controlled. Two Florida men went to prison for registering dead people to vote and forging names on voter registration forms and ballot petitions. In all, 20 people have been charged with election-related crimes in Florida since an elections crimes unit was established last year, although not all were convicted.
The Heritage Foundation recently added ten new proven cases of election fraud to more than 1,400 others in the Foundation’s Election Fraud Database. Three of the new cases involved felons voting when they were not allowed. In another case, a Florida man was convicted of requesting, filling out, and submitting a ballot in the name of his son who had moved away to New Mexico. The son reported someone had voted in his name, leading to the man’s arrest. Talk about karma.
Elections officials and left-wing groups are also engaged in election fraud. I’ll tell you about that when I come back to this subject next week.
3/2/23 - Stupid Voter Roll Tricks
Election integrity activists are placing renewed emphasis on cleaning up the voter rolls, and here’s why: no matter what scheme the Democrats come up with to steal elections, at the end of the day they still have to find enough records of voters who haven’t voted to put in enough fake votes to change the results of the election. This accounts for the puzzling behavior of Democrats who resist at every turn, in defiance of common sense, removing dead voters and people who have moved out of state from the rolls. About 8 percent of the population moves any given year. That’s a lot of voter records just waiting to be picked. The more voters on the rolls who are guaranteed not to vote, the easier it is for the Democrats to commit election fraud, plain and simple.
But we’re on to their tricks. Judicial Watch sued Democrat-run New York City and got a settlement requiring the city to remove over 440,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls and to maintain the rolls in the future. The city had only removed 22 names in the previous six years which is preposterous for a city of five and a half million people. Federal law requires elections officials to remove ineligible voters from the rolls and the good Democrats of New York City obviously weren’t doing it. Tammany Hall would be proud.
Judicial Watch and another group filed another lawsuit to clean up the rolls in Los Angeles. The suit concluded successfully with Democrat-controlled L.A. County removing 1.2 million ineligible voters from the rolls. The County sent notices to 1.6 million inactive voters who had not voted in two successive federal elections. The County revealed that 643,000 voters stayed on the rolls despite not voting for at least ten years, more inactive voters than anywhere else in the country. Yet, there they were, just waiting for the Democrats to make it look like they voted.
There’s more work to do. Six million Americans are registered to vote in two states, three percent of all voters. An estimated 60,000 of them illegally voted twice in 2020. Others just neglect to get off the rolls when they move, but some of this is strategic with many voters choosing where to cast a single vote where it will make the biggest difference for their side. It is estimated there were 317,000 such strategic voters with dual registrations in the 2020 presidential election. The study looking at this concluded, “Democrats outnumber Republicans 2:1 among double registrants.” Funny how that works. More Democrat fun and games.
More work needs to be done but some unfortunate features of federal law stand in the way and need to be fixed. A provision of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) prevents states from cleaning their voter rolls less than 90 days before a federal election. When you stack early voting for the general election on top of primaries, that’s a big chunk of the year. Another problem in federal law is the requirement election officials must wait two election cycles before taking people who move off the rolls. In addition, they must first send a notification which, if not done promptly, can result in people who move not being scrubbed from the rolls for six years. If you’re a Democrat, you’re saying ‘Goody! More voters who are pretty much guaranteed not to vote that we Democrats can use to cast fake votes and steal elections.’ You see the problem.
New tools have been created which could crack the nut of bloated voter rolls. One is a new interactive database available free to citizens and election integrity groups around the country to help them find deceased voters, people who vote more than once, and moved-away voters still on the rolls. Another is fractal technology now in use in 12 states that can spot fake voter registrations with hotels, post office boxes, skating rinks, and other bogus addresses. The technology can also ferret out other ruses like elections officials changing zip codes on voter records when mail ballots are sent out, making them undeliverable. The zip codes are changed back later, but the maneuver creates a huge stockpile of mailed ballots floating around out there that can be captured and voted illicitly.
Don’t fail to notice how many times today I’ve mentioned that Democrats are responsible for election fraud and the bloated voter rolls that enable it. Democrats call people like me the Deplorables. But what I’ve told you today about the Democrats and their election fraud schemes should make it easy for you to understand why I call the Democrats the Despicables.
Election integrity activists are placing renewed emphasis on cleaning up the voter rolls, and here’s why: no matter what scheme the Democrats come up with to steal elections, at the end of the day they still have to find enough records of voters who haven’t voted to put in enough fake votes to change the results of the election. This accounts for the puzzling behavior of Democrats who resist at every turn, in defiance of common sense, removing dead voters and people who have moved out of state from the rolls. About 8 percent of the population moves any given year. That’s a lot of voter records just waiting to be picked. The more voters on the rolls who are guaranteed not to vote, the easier it is for the Democrats to commit election fraud, plain and simple.
But we’re on to their tricks. Judicial Watch sued Democrat-run New York City and got a settlement requiring the city to remove over 440,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls and to maintain the rolls in the future. The city had only removed 22 names in the previous six years which is preposterous for a city of five and a half million people. Federal law requires elections officials to remove ineligible voters from the rolls and the good Democrats of New York City obviously weren’t doing it. Tammany Hall would be proud.
Judicial Watch and another group filed another lawsuit to clean up the rolls in Los Angeles. The suit concluded successfully with Democrat-controlled L.A. County removing 1.2 million ineligible voters from the rolls. The County sent notices to 1.6 million inactive voters who had not voted in two successive federal elections. The County revealed that 643,000 voters stayed on the rolls despite not voting for at least ten years, more inactive voters than anywhere else in the country. Yet, there they were, just waiting for the Democrats to make it look like they voted.
There’s more work to do. Six million Americans are registered to vote in two states, three percent of all voters. An estimated 60,000 of them illegally voted twice in 2020. Others just neglect to get off the rolls when they move, but some of this is strategic with many voters choosing where to cast a single vote where it will make the biggest difference for their side. It is estimated there were 317,000 such strategic voters with dual registrations in the 2020 presidential election. The study looking at this concluded, “Democrats outnumber Republicans 2:1 among double registrants.” Funny how that works. More Democrat fun and games.
More work needs to be done but some unfortunate features of federal law stand in the way and need to be fixed. A provision of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) prevents states from cleaning their voter rolls less than 90 days before a federal election. When you stack early voting for the general election on top of primaries, that’s a big chunk of the year. Another problem in federal law is the requirement election officials must wait two election cycles before taking people who move off the rolls. In addition, they must first send a notification which, if not done promptly, can result in people who move not being scrubbed from the rolls for six years. If you’re a Democrat, you’re saying ‘Goody! More voters who are pretty much guaranteed not to vote that we Democrats can use to cast fake votes and steal elections.’ You see the problem.
New tools have been created which could crack the nut of bloated voter rolls. One is a new interactive database available free to citizens and election integrity groups around the country to help them find deceased voters, people who vote more than once, and moved-away voters still on the rolls. Another is fractal technology now in use in 12 states that can spot fake voter registrations with hotels, post office boxes, skating rinks, and other bogus addresses. The technology can also ferret out other ruses like elections officials changing zip codes on voter records when mail ballots are sent out, making them undeliverable. The zip codes are changed back later, but the maneuver creates a huge stockpile of mailed ballots floating around out there that can be captured and voted illicitly.
Don’t fail to notice how many times today I’ve mentioned that Democrats are responsible for election fraud and the bloated voter rolls that enable it. Democrats call people like me the Deplorables. But what I’ve told you today about the Democrats and their election fraud schemes should make it easy for you to understand why I call the Democrats the Despicables.
2/23/23 - ERIC: The Worm That Got Inside Our Elections
Grassroots activists continue to raise questions about ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, and authorities are beginning to respond.
On the face of things, ERIC is a private organization that helps its 32 member states clean up and maintain their voter rolls. It compares state voter registration data against motor vehicle licensing information and the Social Security master death file. Then it tells states which voters are dead, have moved out of state, or are registered to vote in more than one state. Critics say ERIC is, at root, nothing more than a partisan get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats.
Louisiana withdrew from ERIC last month, citing “concerns raised by citizens, government watchdog organizations and media reports about potential questionable funding sources and that possibly partisan actors may have access to ERIC network data for political purposes.”
More recently, Alabama left ERIC. The new Secretary of State said he did not want a private group having access to voter data, including driver’s license numbers, contact information, and partial social security numbers including those of minors.
In addition to partisan connections and privacy concerns, critics also say ERIC does a bad job, producing bloated voter rolls in member states. Florida, for example, is a member of ERIC but has more than 100 percent of all possible citizens of voting age on its rolls.
Critics point to ERIC’s initial funding which was provided by leftist super-hero George Soros. They also point to an interlocking directorate in the person of David Becker, a high-profile Democrat election lawyer who is the architect of ERIC. Becker started at the left-wing group People for the American Way and was part of the Obama Justice Department. He is described as a “hardcore Leftist” who “couldn’t stand conservatives.” He went on to create the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) which distributed almost $70 million in private Zuckerberg money through official election offices to reach voters primarily in Democrat counties in the 2020 presidential election. Becker is still a member of ERIC’s board.
Lawsuits have been filed against four jurisdictions for allowing ERIC to block public inspection of voter registration records. ERIC’s contract with states requires them to hide the information from the public, in violation of federal law, the suits allege.
ERIC is also the subject of other lawsuits for sharing valuable and detailed voter registration data like phone numbers from four states with at least one outside leftist group, a practice not authorized in federal law. ERIC requires members to identify and register unregistered voters and - this is the heart of the matter - they all turn out to be likely Democrat voters: minorities, students, etc. According to the lawsuits, ERIC is shipping voter data to - this will sound familiar - CEIR, the leftist group I mentioned earlier involved in goosing Democrat voter registration with Zuckerbucks. Critics say ERIC data, developed with taxpayer money, is helping the Democrats microtarget their most likely supporters who are not yet registered to vote.
Conservative activists continue to campaign against ERIC in Michigan, Virginia, and elsewhere. However, there is a practical problem: finding a good substitute. People suggest different things, but an obvious alternative has yet to emerge. When ERIC was created, it displaced a then-new state-run interstate cross-check system for maintaining voter rolls. State-run systems will be more expensive, but will pay big dividends in terms of election integrity, so they just might be the way to go.
Grassroots activists continue to raise questions about ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center, and authorities are beginning to respond.
On the face of things, ERIC is a private organization that helps its 32 member states clean up and maintain their voter rolls. It compares state voter registration data against motor vehicle licensing information and the Social Security master death file. Then it tells states which voters are dead, have moved out of state, or are registered to vote in more than one state. Critics say ERIC is, at root, nothing more than a partisan get-out-the-vote drive for Democrats.
Louisiana withdrew from ERIC last month, citing “concerns raised by citizens, government watchdog organizations and media reports about potential questionable funding sources and that possibly partisan actors may have access to ERIC network data for political purposes.”
More recently, Alabama left ERIC. The new Secretary of State said he did not want a private group having access to voter data, including driver’s license numbers, contact information, and partial social security numbers including those of minors.
In addition to partisan connections and privacy concerns, critics also say ERIC does a bad job, producing bloated voter rolls in member states. Florida, for example, is a member of ERIC but has more than 100 percent of all possible citizens of voting age on its rolls.
Critics point to ERIC’s initial funding which was provided by leftist super-hero George Soros. They also point to an interlocking directorate in the person of David Becker, a high-profile Democrat election lawyer who is the architect of ERIC. Becker started at the left-wing group People for the American Way and was part of the Obama Justice Department. He is described as a “hardcore Leftist” who “couldn’t stand conservatives.” He went on to create the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) which distributed almost $70 million in private Zuckerberg money through official election offices to reach voters primarily in Democrat counties in the 2020 presidential election. Becker is still a member of ERIC’s board.
Lawsuits have been filed against four jurisdictions for allowing ERIC to block public inspection of voter registration records. ERIC’s contract with states requires them to hide the information from the public, in violation of federal law, the suits allege.
ERIC is also the subject of other lawsuits for sharing valuable and detailed voter registration data like phone numbers from four states with at least one outside leftist group, a practice not authorized in federal law. ERIC requires members to identify and register unregistered voters and - this is the heart of the matter - they all turn out to be likely Democrat voters: minorities, students, etc. According to the lawsuits, ERIC is shipping voter data to - this will sound familiar - CEIR, the leftist group I mentioned earlier involved in goosing Democrat voter registration with Zuckerbucks. Critics say ERIC data, developed with taxpayer money, is helping the Democrats microtarget their most likely supporters who are not yet registered to vote.
Conservative activists continue to campaign against ERIC in Michigan, Virginia, and elsewhere. However, there is a practical problem: finding a good substitute. People suggest different things, but an obvious alternative has yet to emerge. When ERIC was created, it displaced a then-new state-run interstate cross-check system for maintaining voter rolls. State-run systems will be more expensive, but will pay big dividends in terms of election integrity, so they just might be the way to go.
2/16/23 - Private Financing of Elections: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come
The private financing of government election offices sparked controversy in the 2020 election and prompted bans on the practice in 24 states. Such financing came to be called ‘Zuckerbucks’ after Mark Zuckerberg gave $350 million to a nonprofit named CTCL (Center for Technology and Civic Life) to distribute to election offices around the country, ostensibly to help them cope with the COVID emergency. Critics rightly say the resulting election office activities ended up being thinly disguised voter registration drives to benefit Democrats. It is true some of the money went to Republican-leaning counties, but that was just a fig leaf. The preponderance of the grants went to Democrat areas. The Texas Attorney General launched an investigation into whether the stated desire to protect voters from COVID was just a pretext to disguise private electioneering efforts through government instrumentalities.
So it is with great sadness I must report to you Zuckerbucks didn’t die in the jurisdictions they were banned. There are moves to repeal the ban in Virginia and elsewhere and, of more immediate concern, Democrats are finding ways to get around the bans.
In 2022, CTCL launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence with $80 million. The Alliance is a coalition of left-wing funders and advocacy groups that support more mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, and same-day registration - all vectors of election fraud. The Alliance acts as a “support system” for local election offices, giving them coaching, guidance, training, consulting services, and other resources. All in the name of good government, you see. A think tank took a look at these activities and concluded they are designed to “systematically influence” election offices and push progressive voting policies.
Georgia is one of the states banning Zuckerbucks, but the law is weak. The Alliance was able to give a $2 million grant to DeKalb County, Georgia - in Atlanta’s metropolitan area. The law only prohibited private money from going directly to election offices, so the Alliance proposed to send money for election purposes to the county finance department and the county council voted to accept it. This is a loophole in the law you could drive a truck through, and they did. Nothing in Georgia law prevents a local government from accepting private money and allocating it to election administration. Voila! Zuckbucks 2.0.
That’s one dodge. Here’s another: OK, so 24 states banned private financing going directly to local election offices. How about we give election offices paper ‘credits’ which they can then redeem for election-related services from Alliance partners? Another loophole - the Alliance pays the partners, not the election offices, but the effect is the same. Pretty slick, don’t you think?
CTCL announced its first cohort of election offices wishing to become local ‘centers of election excellence’. They’re in seven states, including states where private financing of elections is officially banned. A county in one of the states - North Carolina where a ban was vetoed - has already taken private money to defend itself against the flak it was getting for taking private money. CTCL’s contract requires local election offices to submit an ‘improvement’ plan showing it will change the way it operates to please CTCL. This gives CTCL a window on internal operations which it will presumably use to maximize advantage for Democrats in future elections.
This is insidious. The Democrats hold out a bag of gold and worm their way into official election administration, giving people even less reason to trust our elections in the future. None dare call it a ‘threat to democracy’.
The private financing of government election offices sparked controversy in the 2020 election and prompted bans on the practice in 24 states. Such financing came to be called ‘Zuckerbucks’ after Mark Zuckerberg gave $350 million to a nonprofit named CTCL (Center for Technology and Civic Life) to distribute to election offices around the country, ostensibly to help them cope with the COVID emergency. Critics rightly say the resulting election office activities ended up being thinly disguised voter registration drives to benefit Democrats. It is true some of the money went to Republican-leaning counties, but that was just a fig leaf. The preponderance of the grants went to Democrat areas. The Texas Attorney General launched an investigation into whether the stated desire to protect voters from COVID was just a pretext to disguise private electioneering efforts through government instrumentalities.
So it is with great sadness I must report to you Zuckerbucks didn’t die in the jurisdictions they were banned. There are moves to repeal the ban in Virginia and elsewhere and, of more immediate concern, Democrats are finding ways to get around the bans.
In 2022, CTCL launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence with $80 million. The Alliance is a coalition of left-wing funders and advocacy groups that support more mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, and same-day registration - all vectors of election fraud. The Alliance acts as a “support system” for local election offices, giving them coaching, guidance, training, consulting services, and other resources. All in the name of good government, you see. A think tank took a look at these activities and concluded they are designed to “systematically influence” election offices and push progressive voting policies.
Georgia is one of the states banning Zuckerbucks, but the law is weak. The Alliance was able to give a $2 million grant to DeKalb County, Georgia - in Atlanta’s metropolitan area. The law only prohibited private money from going directly to election offices, so the Alliance proposed to send money for election purposes to the county finance department and the county council voted to accept it. This is a loophole in the law you could drive a truck through, and they did. Nothing in Georgia law prevents a local government from accepting private money and allocating it to election administration. Voila! Zuckbucks 2.0.
That’s one dodge. Here’s another: OK, so 24 states banned private financing going directly to local election offices. How about we give election offices paper ‘credits’ which they can then redeem for election-related services from Alliance partners? Another loophole - the Alliance pays the partners, not the election offices, but the effect is the same. Pretty slick, don’t you think?
CTCL announced its first cohort of election offices wishing to become local ‘centers of election excellence’. They’re in seven states, including states where private financing of elections is officially banned. A county in one of the states - North Carolina where a ban was vetoed - has already taken private money to defend itself against the flak it was getting for taking private money. CTCL’s contract requires local election offices to submit an ‘improvement’ plan showing it will change the way it operates to please CTCL. This gives CTCL a window on internal operations which it will presumably use to maximize advantage for Democrats in future elections.
This is insidious. The Democrats hold out a bag of gold and worm their way into official election administration, giving people even less reason to trust our elections in the future. None dare call it a ‘threat to democracy’.