The Left’s National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed
James Simpson —
May 8, 2012
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This report reveals the Left’s vote fraud strategy for the
2012 elections. Like a KGB operation, it is thorough, multi-faceted and
redundant. It has overt and covert, illegal and legal elements, the
latter of which are designed, at least in part, to facilitate illegal
activities later. It is a deliberate, premeditated, comprehensive plan
to win the 2012 presidential election at all costs, and is in keeping
with the organizational methods, associations and ethics of the
Community-Organizer-in-Chief, Barack Obama.
The Left seeks fundamental structural change to our entire form of
government. In keeping with their amoral, means-justifies-ends
philosophy, they will register any voters, dead or alive, legal or
illegal, who will then vote as many times as possible, in order to
establish a “
permanent progressive majority.” As two New York Democrats recently caught in a vote fraud scandal
told police, “voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections…”
Low income individuals are the perfect dupes for this strategy. An
expanding welfare state makes them increasingly dependent on government
benefits, a development that guarantees their vote for liberal-left
candidates. At the same time, people with marginal attachment to society
may be less inclined to report illegal activity at the polls—or
actually participate. The “victim” narrative promoted in popular culture
and press may even encourage such behavior. Meanwhile, a growing tax
burden and public debt suck private enterprise dry—pushing ever more
people onto the dole.
Politicians of both parties are not above engaging in vote fraud. But
this kind of corruption is relegated to individual campaigns or areas
where corrupt political establishments have been able to develop
unchallenged. It is not a systematic component of overall national
strategy, as it is with the Left.
This strategy has been under development for decades. They have
constructed an entire industry devoted to this task and pursue a
multifaceted strategy to accomplish it:
1. Swamp election officials with overwhelming numbers of
registrations at the last possible minute, a huge proportion of which
are deliberately fraudulent, in order to create
systematic chaos. This accomplishes numerous goals:
- Makes verification of registrations difficult, given the small size and limited budgets of state and local election offices.
- Provides multiple opportunities for vote fraud.
- Throws the entire voting process into question, providing pretext
for lawsuits where concessions may be obtained from election officials.
- When election officials challenge registrations, they are accused of
“voter suppression.” This in turn serves complementary goals:
- Charge of “voter suppression” reinforces the Left’s narrative about America as an oppressive, “racist” country.
- Publicity and lawsuits intimidate election officials, who settle on terms favorable to the Left.
2. Activists sue state authorities for “voter suppression,” creating
further chaos and pressuring them to become de facto taxpayer-funded
voter registration operations;
3. Eric Holder’s Justice Department tacitly supports voter
intimidation tactics, sues states and backs private lawsuits, and
resists reform as “voter suppression.”
4. Leftist echo chamber discredits allegations of vote fraud,
supports “suppression” theme, and promotes advantageous legislation.
The ultimate goal is a systematized, taxpayer-funded voting machinery
that will guarantee maximum participation from the Left’s voting
demographic while undermining the ability to manage elections and
prevent fraud.
The ACORN Swamping Method
Key to understanding the Left’s vote-fraud strategy is the community organizing group
ACORN. ACORN has become synonymous with corruption,
complicity in the subprime mortgage
crisis and especially
vote fraud.
ACORN and its voter registration arm,
Project Vote,
hire marginal and unskilled workers at very low rates and use incentive
bonuses or quotas to encourage them to collect as many voter
registrations as possible.
The resulting flood of registrations are fraught with duplicates,
errors and omissions, and a large number are overtly fraudulent,
including names like “Donald Duck,” “Mickey Mouse,” “
Tony Romo” of the Dallas Cowboys,
etc.[2] According to Matthew
Vadum, the senior editor at Capital Research Center, a total of 400,000 bogus ACORN registrations were thrown out in 2008 alone.
ACORN was supposedly disbanded in 2010 but resurrected itself under a slew of new names. Former ACORN President
Bertha Lewis bragged
that they created “…18 bulletproof community-organizing Frankensteins…”
These are reproduced in the table below. Most of these groups occupy
former ACORN offices, many with the same staff.
ACORN is directly connected to Obama and the Democratic Party. Counsel to The Advance Group, a strategic planning company, is
Michael Gaspard,
Patrick Gaspard’s
brother. Patrick is currently the DNC’s executive director and
President Obama’s former political director. He has worked for ACORN,
the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Working
Families Party, a descendant of the ACORN-founded New Party which Barack
Obama
joined in 1996. Obama has bragged of “
fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.”
ACORN’s former deputy regional director, Amy Busefink was
convicted in 2010 of vote fraud stemming from a 2008
Nevada case.
Judicial Watch found that, “while under criminal indictment in Nevada…
[Busefink] managed an online program for Project Vote’s 2010 Colorado
campaign, the ultimate goal of which is to allow people without a
driver’s license or state identification to register to vote online.”
Busefink is now national
field director for Project Vote.
Barack Obama established his organizing bona fides with Project Vote in 1992, when he registered 150,000
Illinois voters.
Zach Polett (courtesy Anita MonCrief)
Project Vote was created and run for years by Zach Polett,
who bragged that he trained Barack Obama in 1992 and said of Obama, “ACORN produces leaders.” Polett is listed in
Manta.com
as president of Voting for America, one of Project Vote’s former names,
although his name is not on Project Vote’s website. Calls to that
listing roll into a voice mail identifying the organizations as “CSI.”
Polett’s extension is #3.
CSI is
the acronym for Citizens Services Inc., another supposedly defunct
ACORN group that was used to hide over $800,000 paid by candidate Obama
to ACORN in 2008.
This kind of duplicitous
activity reflects a deliberate methodology. ACORN is a criminal organization.
The Cloward Piven Strategy
ACORN is the face of vote fraud, but its intellectual foundation is
the Cloward Piven Strategy. Sociology professors Richard Cloward
(Columbia University) and Frances Fox Piven (CUNY) were founding members
of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Cloward died in 2001 but
Piven lives on.
Richard Cloward
In 1966 Cloward and Piven penned an article for
The Nation
magazine titled “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty.”
They posited that if the poor were organized into street armies to
demand all welfare benefits available to them, they could overwhelm and
crash the system.
It became known as the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” and is
credited with expanding welfare rolls 151 percent between 1965 and 1974 and bringing New York City to the brink of bankruptcy in 1975.
The Issue is Never the Issue
The Left’s solution to everything is socialism, although they are
usually careful not to name it, instead identifying issues that
seemingly only their policies can redress. But “the issue is never the
issue. The issue is always the revolution” as David Horowitz has
explained. The “issues” are mere distractions.
Cloward and Piven initially claimed to be agitating for a “guaranteed
national income.” Such a policy is plainly unsustainable; however, it
would
institutionalize their strategy, creating an enormous,
permanent drag on the whole economy precipitating an even larger crash
later on. Cloward and Piven’s true goal was to find any instrument to
institutionalize their orchestrated anarchy, and poor people were the
tool.
Wade Rathke, a veteran of those early efforts, was mentored by
Cloward and Piven. Rathke and other radicals created a new organization,
ACORN,and sought ways to further extend the Strategy.
White
House ACORN photo: Bill Clinton center; Wade Rathke third to his left;
Zach Polett in lower left-hand corner. Courtesy Anita MonCrief
With passage of the 1977
Community Reinvestment Act,
ACORN and other activist groups got in the housing business. They began
pushing banks to offer high-risk mortgage loans to low/no income
borrowers. The Clinton administration aggressively
ramped up
the effort. To encourage lenders and investors, Fannie Mae and Freddie
Mac underwrote the risk. Since its passage, CRA lending has exceeded $6
trillion.
[ii] The mortgage crisis was Cloward-Piven on
steroids.
[2]
Meanwhile, Cloward and Piven had not been idle. In 1982 they
created the Human Service Employees Registration and Voter Education Fund (
Human SERVE)
to build political momentum for a law that would turn state motor
vehicle and welfare agencies into low-income voter registration offices.
National Voter Registration Act
Motor Voter Signing Ceremony - Cloward in light grey suit, Piven in green. Source: the White House
Throughout the 1980s, Human SERVE field-tested legal and political
strategies to promote this plan. The fruits of its labor were finally
realized with “Motor Voter,” the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
(NVRA), signed into law with Cloward and Piven standing directly behind
President Clinton.
The NVRA requires motor vehicle, military recruiting, public
assistance and other state and local offices to offer voter-registration
services.
The NVRA has become a beacon for
vote fraud.
Its minimal verification requirements opened the door to ACORN-style
massive voter registration fraud, and in the confusion provide blanket
opportunities for vote fraud.
Voter ID laws have become critically important. According to a
Pew report,
approximately 24 million or 12.5 percent of voter registrations
nationally are either invalid or inaccurate, including about 1.8 million
deceased individuals, and 2.75 million with multiple-state
registrations.
And while the NRVA has provisions for purging the rolls in
Section 8,
they require a complex, process spanning multiple election cycles. In
some cases, the NRVA replaced better mechanisms already in
use.
Many states have simply not followed these procedures with any
regularity. The Left ignores all this, focusing on enforcing NRVA’s
Section 7.
Section 7 Lawsuits
While capitalizing on the vote fraud swamping strategy enabled by the
NVRA, ACORN, Project Vote and others sue states that don’t aggressively
execute the voter registration activities required by
Section 7
of the law. The narrative is always “voter suppression,” and
settlements have forced state agencies to become de facto low income
voter registration drives.
Not only must states develop, maintain and execute plans for assuring
comprehensive registration, they are forced to report regularly to
ACORN lawyers. A 2009 settlement between ACORN and
Missouri’s Department of Social Services is illustrative. DSS must:
- Create an NVRA State Coordinator position
- Designate an NVRA Site Coordinator for Family Support Division offices
- Keep detailed records of client visits and registration activities
- Immediately send a letter offering registration to any individual who “may not have been given the opportunity to register…”
- Report detailed compliance data to plaintiff lawyers every month.
- State coordinator’s performance measured by NVRA compliance
- ACORN will receive $450,000 in settlement.
In these settlements, ACORN effectively assumes an executive role
over state agencies. Notably, there is no corollary requirement to
ascertain the legality of registrations or to clean up the rolls.
Project Vote has taken recent actions against Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and
New Mexico. They just announced their intention to sue
Pennsylvania.
Project Vote formed agreements with Colorado in 2008 and 2010. According to Judicial Watch, after Project Vote’s
involvement “the
percentage of invalid voter registration forms from Colorado public
assistance agencies was four times the national average.”
Though largely unnoticed until now, this litigation tactic has been
used since the 1980s, when Human SERVE’s legal allies sued state
authorities for
settlements creating localized versions of Motor Voter.
While capitalizing on the vote swamping strategy enabled by Motor
Voter, ACORN and Project Vote picked up the torch for SERVE, which
closed its doors in 2000. Frances Fox Piven serves today on Project
Vote’s
Board of Directors. Significantly, President Obama has
named the voter registration initiative of his reelection effort “Project Vote.”
Piven also has many other connections to Obama. She was a founding member of
Progressives for Obama. Her Democratic Socialists of America
bragged
that it was responsible for the success of Obama’s “ground game” in
2008. Piven was one of 130 founding members of the radical left Campaign
for America’s Future. Many CAF members also sit on the board of the
Apollo Alliance, the executor of Obama’s “Green” jobs initiative.
DOJ and ACORN Team Up for 2012
Judicial Watch obtained several documents showing
coordination between DOJ, Project Vote and the White House.
[i]
In one email, Project Vote demanded action on NVRA cases. Less than a
month later, DOJ sued Rhode Island for NVRA noncompliance. Similarly,
DOJ’s Louisiana NVRA suit followed Project Vote’s by a few months.
Project Vote is promoting prospective employees for DOJ’s Voting Rights
section.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The VRA outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests for voting. Section 5
requires certain states and other political subdivisions to obtain
“preclearance,” or permission, from either DOJ or the U.S. District
Court in Washington, DC, on any change affecting voting. Currently,
preclearance states covered in whole or in part include: Alabama,
Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Texas and Virginia. Set in 1982 to expire in 2007,
Congress
extended the VRA for another 25 years in 2006.
The VRA has come into sharp focus this year as the Holder
administration has used VRA preclearance requirements to stall or
prevent voter ID laws from being enacted. Non-preclearance states have
faced stiff court challenges from other leftist groups.
Alabama – Alabama’s new photo ID law has a 2014 effective date. Alabama has not yet applied for pre-clearance.
Arizona – 9
th Circuit
upheld ID requirement of new law; struck requirement that voter prove
citizenship.
Mississippi – A
Voter ID amendment was approved by voters with a 62 percent margin in 2011. A bill to implement the amendment
passed April 10, 2012. Requires preclearance. No word yet from Justice.
South Carolina – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law in December 2011. State filed for reconsideration.
Texas – DOJ denied pre-clearance for new ID law. Texas filed suit with three-judge panel seeking pre-clearance; DOJ asked court to
postpone trial.
Wisconsin – State judge ruled Wisconsin’s voter ID law unconstitutional (read the
opinion). State
will appeal.
The Wisconsin case is an example of independent groups working to sabotage reform efforts. In a
suit brought
by the League of Women Voters, the NAACP and others, the judge found ID
laws “unconstitutional to the extent they serve as a condition for
voting at the polls.” This was a bizarre ruling. Wisconsin’s
Constitution clearly allows mechanisms to establish voter eligibility.
Despite the Left’s best efforts, voter ID laws have been proposed this year in 32 states.
A Personal Testimony
J. Christian Adams is a former DOJ election lawyer who worked on the
Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation case. He resigned in
protest of Eric Holder’s race-based application of the law. According to
Adams’ new book,
Injustice,
Eric Holder became directly involved in the Black Panther case. Mr.
Adams agreed to be interviewed for this report. Some highlights:
- DOJ is engaged in a massive campaign to force states to… become aggressive voter registration offices…
- DOJ announced they would not enforce Section 8 because it won’t increase turnout.
- States are infested with dead voters on the rolls.
- Investigations into eight states with widespread voter roll problems… were spiked
- Because of Motor Voter, voter rolls in many states seeing influx of illegal aliens.
- Data show that illegal aliens are participating in American elections.
- DOJ is using [VRA] Sec. 5 to stop voter integrity initiatives.
- Every one of Holder’s 113 new attorney hires is a far-left radical.
Famed civil rights attorney
Bartle Bull
was a poll watcher at that Philadelphia location when the Black
Panthers appeared. He testified in the case, calling it “the most
blatant form of voter intimidation” he had ever seen.
ACORN’s swamping method is now being replicated all over the country,
especially in swing states or those with critical elections like
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s recall vote. Even local communities
are affected. For example, the Wake County (Raleigh/Durham) registrar
described a swamping effort conducted by North Carolina’s Public
Interest Research Group (PIRG).
While these organizations are nominally independent, closer
inspection often reveals interlocking directorates and/or shared staff.
Many are supported
directly or indirectly by George Soros foundations. The chart below, compiled by
North Carolina Civitas Institute, includes many organizations that worked with ACORN there.
North Carolina Left/Liberal Organizations
A Textbook Case: Houston Votes
In July 2010, a newly-formed voter registration group named Houston
Votes (HV) announced it intended to register 100,000 Houston, Texas area
voters in a few months. Catherine Engelbrecht, Leader of
True the Vote
(TTV) and King Street Patriots (KSP), was skeptical. Her group checked
about 1,000 HV registrations. The number of erroneous registrations
submitted by HV and
Democracia—a group targeting unregistered Hispanics—was, she said, “off the charts.”
They brought their results to Harris County Registrar, Leo Vasquez,
who reviewed HV registrations. He found that of 25,640 submitted, only
7,193 were “apparently new voters.” On August 24, Vasquez held an
unprecedented press conference,
announcing:
Evidence shows that the Houston Votes and Texans Together
organization is conspiring in a pattern of falsification of government
documents, suborning of perjury and a deliberate effort to over-burden
our processing system with thousands of duplicate and incomplete voter
registration applications.
He raised concerns that HV was, like ACORN, paying employees based on
the number of applications they turned in, and cited specific examples
of problematic registrations:
3,531 No match for SSN or driver’s license number
1,597 Multiple apps for the same person
1,014 Pre-existing voters
1,030 Incomplete apps
25 Non-citizens
325 Minors
129 Ineligible felons
1,133 No ID
1,323 Filed past deadline
Three days later, a massive warehouse fire destroyed Harris County’s
10,000 voting machines. The fire’s timing bred suspicions, fed almost
exclusively by the Left, which sought through innuendo to implicate KSP.
A Huffington Post headline two days later was
typical:
“Possible Arson and the Right’s Texas Voter Suppression Effort.” This
theme was repeated ad nauseam in the liberal media echo chamber. The
Houston Fire Department later cited “an unspecified electrical short” as
the cause, an explanation that satisfied no one.
[iv]
Maria Isabel, One of Houston Votes’ “non-partisan” Leaders
HV held a press conference the day of the fire, calling Vasquez’s
allegations “reckless and false” and “an apparently coordinated,
partisan effort to suppress voter registration and to intimidate
citizens into not voting…” They
demanded the Justice Department investigate.
HV dismissed mistakes with the familiar ACORN refrain, blaming a few
low-level employees who were fired when errors were discovered. However,
Vasquez specifically cited 180 erroneous registrations turned in by
Directors Sean Caddle and Neil Hudelson—more errors than usually
submitted in total by traditional voter registration drives.
HV boasted their group was “non-partisan” but an
attentive blogger quickly proved otherwise. One of the people training volunteers for Houston Votes was
Maria Isabel, an Obama operative made famous by the photo of her office sporting a poster of
Che Guevara.
BarackObama.com advertised HV’s “volunteer” deputy training. Participating groups included,
Atascocita Texas for Obama,
Houston For Obama,
Houston Obama Leadership Team,
Houston Women For Obama, and other similar groups.
HV Directors Hudelson and Caddle were quickly discovered to be
long-time Democratic activists. At last notice they had returned to
Caddle’s home state of New Jersey, working for Democratic Jersey City
Council-at-Large candidate Sue Mack. She lost.
A little more digging revealed Houston Votes to be part of
America Votes, a Soros-funded organization tied to ACORN, SEIU, and a universe of other
leftwing groups.
America Votes specifically targeted Texas in its 2010
Redistricting Control Project.
With 38 electoral votes, Texas is only exceeded by California’s 55.
Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in Texas, not
coincidentally home to the
second largest illegal immigrant population in the U.S.
One
quarter of Texans reside in the Houston metropolitan region and there
are 25 state house seats in Harris County. Prior to the 2010 elections,
Republicans held a slim majority of three seats in the Texas House.
Winning in Houston had the potential to flip the House, giving Democrats
control over redistricting. They wanted to “
turn Texas blue.”
The Advisory Board of HV’s parent organization, Texans Together
Education Fund, included a number of prominent left-wing Democrats. One
was Grande Dame of Texas politics,
Sissy Farenthold, who
worked with the radical left Institute for Policy Studies in the 1980s. Another was Democrat
Kristi Thibaut, a state legislator trying to hold her District 133 seat. She had
worked for ACORN and was
under investigation by the Texas Ethics Commission. Yet another was
Sue Schechter, running for Harris County Clerk. Not only was HV extremely partisan, but plainly the Texas arm of Soros’s project.
America Votes failed in 2010. Republican control of the Texas state
house increased by 44 seats in a nationwide sweep that brought
Republican control to statehouses not seen since
1928. America Votes is
targeting Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2012.
But the Left still
wasn’t finished in Texas. The Texas Democratic Party sued the Harris County Registrar’s office, the Registrar and other employees.
U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee illegally campaigning at Houston poll during early voting in 2010. Credit: Warner Todd Huston
Harris County had settled another
suit with
the Democrats in 2008 stemming from 67,554 rejected applications,
mostly submitted by ACORN. Democrats had charged “voter suppression”
then too, over registrations rejected for incomplete or inaccurate
information—the kind ACORN excels at.
Because Texas is a preclearance state, redistricting maps must be
approved. This year’s maps were challenged in court by Latino groups.
This delayed the primary, neutralizing any impact Texas may have had on
the Republican presidential primary
process.
Voter Intimidation
KSP organized approximately 1,000 poll watchers for the 2010
elections. This outraged the Left, unused to having its inner city
monopoly threatened. Texans Together Education Fund sued the King Street
Patriots, True the Vote, Catherine Engelbrecht and her husband. On the
first day of early voting, the Texas Democrat Party also filed a
suit, a move characterized by KSP’s legal team as a naked effort to intimidate KSP-trained poll watchers.
Throughout the 2010 electoral cycle, the Left hurled accusations of
“voter suppression” and “voter intimidation” at Catherine Engelbrecht,
TTV, KSP and the volunteer poll watchers they trained. This narrative
was promoted uncritically by the local press. Blogger Ann “Babe”
Huggett, writing for EmergingCorruption.com,
reported:
- ABC Channel 13 quoted Democrats suing KSP that KSP leaders could see jail time for voter intimidation. ABC’s own video, however, shows otherwise.
- Channel 26 reporter Isiah Carey asked repeatedly if the King Street Patriots hadn’t created a hostile environment. KSP offered witness testimony that it was “the other side” doing the intimidating.
- New Black Panther leader, Quanell X, threatened that his men would “protect” people from the TTV-trained poll watchers.
- Emails from communist Van Jones’ Color of Change circulated through liberal circles, charging poll-watcher voter intimidation.
- Local radio station Magic 102.1 FM repeated bogus charges about
assaults on black voters… including spitting and physical assault… on
black grandmothers.
But it was actually poll judges, poll workers and Quanell X’s Houston
Black Panther group, who did much of the intimidating. Assistant County
Attorney Douglas Ray
disclosed after
an investigation that Harris County poll workers and election judges
had committed the violations blamed on KSP. He was silent on the
Panthers.
Poll Watchers submitted 763 incident reports, detailing over 3,000
violations, to Harris County. These included intimidation, harassment
and illegal voter assistance conducted by poll judges and workers. To
date there has been no response from the County. Three poll watchers
were willing to be identified by name and spoke to reporters at a KSP
press conference. KSP invited the Justice Department to witness what was happening. Justice never responded.
Independent of KSP, poll judge Carmen Cuneo gave compelling
video testimony
about how the chief judge had her removed and threatened with arrest
after she confronted Quanell X about his group’s activities at the
poll.
True the Vote and the Wisconsin Recall
Union groups used the swarming method earlier this year in a recall
petition of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. They reportedly submitted
one million petitions, needing only 540,208. The Democrat-controlled
Government Accountability Board (GAB), responsible for verifying
petitions, flatly refused to do so.
In an astonishing, heroic effort, True the Vote joined an effort called
Verify the Recall
and developed a method to verify recall petitions online. They built a
nationwide network of 14,000 volunteers almost overnight, who checked 92
percent of the petitions in 22 days. The findings were stunning:
819,233 records (not 1 million)
534,685 verified legitimate (65 percent)
In addition to numerous bogus “Donald Duck” petitions, signers included:
- 29 Wisconsin judges—one who later issued a restraining order against Walker’s Voter ID law.
- A deputy DA, 19 attorneys and dozens of other DA employees.
Some had been working on a heavily criticized “secret” John Doe
investigation of Governor Walker at the time.
- 25 Gannett News journalists
- Several members of WTMJ-4 news staff
- School board members
- Four University of Wisconsin regents and the university’s chief spokesman.
- A Democratic activist charged with seven felony ID theft counts and two of felony vote fraud. He signed up family members and neighbors, including a deceased man, without their knowledge or consent.
The GAB refused to consider VTR’s work and certified 900,000
petitions, but it was clear that Walker opponents had committed
extensive vote fraud. The fraud would have gone undetected if not for the work of TTV.”
Leftwing “Reform” Efforts
Universal Voter Registration (UVR)
Cloward and Piven saw the NVRA as an
intermediate goal. They
made that clear in their book. The flurry of lawsuits and systemic
fraud generated by the NVRA all build momentum to find a permanent
solution. And the Left had the answer before they started: Universal
Voter Registration.
UVR calls for automatically registering voters listed on various state and federal databases. Leftist groups argue it will
solve all voter registration problems, but the left created most of them. UVR would create more:
- UVR undermines the Constitution.
- UVR facilitates illegal alien voting
- Homeowners with more than one property create duplicates.
- The many state & federal lists will create duplicates
- Because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected.
UVR would institutionalize the crisis strategy, and provide countless opportunities for vote fraud.
National Popular Vote
The
National Popular Vote
bill seeks to effectively abolish the Electoral College by enacting
state laws that give all electors from those states that have passed the
bill to the winner of the national popular vote. Direct elections would
become universal when enough state legislatures have passed legislation
to make up a majority of the electoral vote (270 of 538). Eight states
and the District of Columbus, totaling 132 electoral votes, have passed
NPV laws. The Electoral College was created to ensure that less populous
states would not be overlooked in presidential elections. If
successful, this effort will make vast swaths of our nation completely
irrelevant to presidential candidates, as they would then focus all
their efforts on large population centers.
Felon Voting
Project Vote disingenuously argues that rights should be restored to
former felons.
Almost every state has provisions to restore voting rights to former felons. ProCon.org claims about
5.2 million felons are “disenfranchised.” But only current prisoners
have no recourse—about 1.4 million. They exaggerate the problem for unclear reasons. The “wise Latina,” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
favors felon voting.
Same Day Voting
Same-day voter registration in Ohio led to ACORN’s permanent
expulsion from that state. Then-Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, an
alumna of George Soros’s Secretary of State Project (see below),
announced a “Golden Week” for same day registration and voting.
ACORN submitted thousands of bogus registrations, including the notorious case where one man was paid to register 73 times.
Former
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold
proposed a nationwide same-day voting law in 2009, but his state’s
experience with it has been disastrous. An investigation into the 2004
elections by the Milwaukee Police concluded the only way to
prevent widespread fraud is to discontinue same-day voting. A
2011 study found errors in one-third of same-day voter registrations in Milwaukee County.
Nine states currently have same day voting laws.
Secretary of State Project
The Soros funded Secretary of State Project seeks to elect leftist
Democrats to that critical post. SoS Project-backed Minnesota Secretary
of State Mark Ritchie demonstrated the value of this program when
comedian Al Franken eked out a victory in his 2008
U.S. Senate race amidst numerous, well-documented allegations of vote fraud.
The SoS Project did poorly in 2010, however. Ritchie was one of only
two SoS-backed candidates to survive the Republican tidal wave.
The project’s website, secstateproject.org, is no longer operational. There is a Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/secstateproject.
It does not appear to get much traffic. This may reflect a temporary
lull in activity, or Soros and his minions have moved to more promising
initiatives.
What Is To Be Done?
The 2012 election may be the most important election in American
history. American citizens acting in the best interest of our country
must be the bulwark against fraud. There are many things people can do,
suitable to their time and resource constraints. Here is a list of
options:
- Volunteer with True the Vote (www.truethevote.org) and join your state’s affiliate. True the Vote is conducting training all over the country. Find your state affiliate.
- Bookmark Protect Your Vote! (www.protectyourvote.us).
This website provides state-by-state information about voting laws,
vote fraud risk, and updated information about voter ID efforts.
- Judicial Watch has done more than any other organization to expose
the activities of this corrupt administration and Justice Department
under Eric Holder. Sign up for email alerts at www.judicialwatch.org.
- Read, print and distribute the Patriot’s Handbook. This free resource contains a wealth of information on how people can participate at any level.
The National Voter Registration Act was crafted specifically to bring
calculated chaos to our elections, open the door to vote fraud and
force states to become de facto voter registration drives heavily
favorable to one political party. Similarly, Attorney General Eric
Holder and his allies have abused the Voting Rights Act, turning
preclearance into a political weapon to sabotage voter integrity
efforts. The results are a voting system vulnerable to systemic fraud.
Our most fundamental right as Americans, to determine the size, scope
and indeed the very nature of our nation, is being threatened. This
must not stand.
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