As I noted in a previous article, we hear all the time from certain circles that vote fraud is “insignificant”.
Well, maybe. But IMO, that’s not exactly how the smart money would bet – or what Norm Coleman would say about the 2008 Minnesota Senate election. Or what the late Coke Steverson would have said about the 1948 Senate primary in Texas, for that matter.
Well, we have a bit of new news on the subject. It seems that a group, Public Interest Legal Foundation, looked at voter registration in both Philadelphia and Virginia. What it found was disturbing.
Philly gave Public Interest Legal Foundation the “stiff arm” – the group had to file suit to get data. Apparently that reluctance on the part of Philly was for good reason. For years, the number of registered voters in Philadelphia has been nearly equal to the number of persons in the city eligible to vote. That alone is absurd on its face.
When they finally received data from Philly, the group found that in a 2 year period – 2013-2015 – at least 86 formerly-registered voters in Philadelphia had requested their voter registration be cancelled because they were not US citizens. Of those 86, 40 of them were found to have voted in at least one election.
Think about that for a moment. This group of 86 was only those who voluntarily came forward. That’s almost certainly only a tiny minority of the number of non-citizens still on the rolls unlawfully in Philly.
Public Interest Legal Foundation also found literally thousands of felons still on the voter registrations rolls. They were required by law to have been removed when convicted, but never were.
In Virginia, only 8 counties in the state responded to Public Interest Legal Foundation’s request for information. Still, in those 8 counties over 1,000 aliens not entitled to vote were nonetheless found on those counties’ voter registration rolls.
And unless things have changed, every one of those on the rolls had to have committed a crime to get there (or in the case of felons, had been convicted of a serious crime). I don’t ever remember registering to vote without also having to certify, under pain of perjury, that I was indeed a US citizen.
How did these illegal voters vote? Dunno; ballots are secret. But I think we can draw a reasonable inference about that from other information.
One major political party wants to ensure voting is clean by such common-sense measures as requiring positive ID to vote, and by strengthening checking of voter registration rolls. The other major party steadfastly opposes both of those common-sense measures.
That opposition suggests a motive. The nature of that motive should be obvious.
The Washington Free Beacon has an article today with more details. It’s worth a read.
