Friday, January 20, 2017

HAIL VICTORY! HAIL TRUMP! HAIL AMERICA FIRST!



(#149)  20 January 2017, Vol.4, No.1 > HAIL VICTORY!  HAIL TRUMP!  HAIL AMERICA FIRST!

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But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2

HAIL VICTORY! 
HAIL TRUMP! 
HAIL AMERICA FIRST

For those of us fortunate enough to have heard President Donald J. Trump deliver his Inauguration Speech today, which he wrote himself without any help from anyone else – then you know the sincerity that Trump has for our Nation!  Keep in mind this is a man who FUNDED HIS OWN CAMPAIGN for less than a hundred-million-dollars compared to Hillary Clinton spending several BILLION-DOLLARS and Trump won 27 States in the Electoral College compared to Clinton only winning 13 States!  And now Trump is receiving only $1 (One-Dollar) per/year as a salary for being president of these United States of America – in addition to turning over all his business activities to his children for the remainder of his Presidency, a step that he DID NOT HAVE TO TAKE since our national laws allow both a serving president and a serving vice-president to continue receiving an income from their respective businesses if they so choose!  Thus in the case of DONALD J. TRUMP – WE TRULY HAVE A ‘PUBLIC SERVANT’ SERVING WE THE PEOPLE – THE NATIONALIST / POPULIST SPEECH BELOW SIMPLY PROVES THAT TO BE THE CASE!  


MAY OUR CREATOR CONTINUE TO BLESS & KEEP DONALD J. TRUMP & MICHAEL R. PENCE SAFE & SECURE IN ALL THEY DO TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Here is the Trump Inauguration Speech:

[*] TRUMP: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.

(APPLAUSE) We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.

(APPLAUSE)
Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.  We will face challenges, we will confront hardships, but we will get the job done.

Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition.  They have been magnificent.  Thank you.

(APPLAUSE)
Today’s ceremony, however, has very special meaning because today, we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people.

(APPLAUSE)
For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth.  Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.  The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.  

Their victories have not been your victories.  Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.  And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.

(APPLAUSE)
That all changes starting right here and right now because this moment is your moment, it belongs to you.

(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America.  This is your day.  This is your celebration.  And this, the United States of America, is your country.

(APPLAUSE)
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.

(APPLAUSE)
January 20th, 2017 will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.

(APPLAUSE)
The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.

(APPLAUSE)
Everyone is listening to you now.  You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.

(APPLAUSE)
At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction,  that a nation exists to serve its citizens.  Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves.  These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public.

But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

(APPLAUSE) We are one nation and their pain is our pain.  Their dreams are our dreams.  And their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.  The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.

(APPLAUSE)
For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.  We’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own.

(APPLAUSE)
And spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We’ve made other countries rich, while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.

One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.
But that is the past.  And now, we are looking only to the future.

(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital, and in every hall of power.  From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.  From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first, America first.

(APPLAUSE)
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.  
We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.

(APPLAUSE)
Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength.  I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never ever let you down.

(APPLAUSE)
America will start winning again, winning like never before.

(APPLAUSE)
We will bring back our jobs.  We will bring back our borders.  We will bring back our wealth.  And we will bring back our dreams.

(APPLAUSE)
We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation.  We will get our people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.

(APPLAUSE)
We will follow two simple rules; buy American and hire American.

(APPLAUSE)
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.  We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example.  We will shine for everyone to follow.

(APPLAUSE)
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.

(APPLAUSE)
At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America, and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.  When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.

(APPLAUSE)
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.  We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.  When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

(APPLAUSE)
There should be no fear.  We are protected and we will always be protected.  We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement.  And most importantly, we will be protected by God.

(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.  In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.  We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining, but never doing anything about it.

(APPLAUSE)
The time for empty talk is over.  Now arrives the hour of action.

(APPLAUSE)
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.  No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail.  Our country will thrive and prosper again.

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.  A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions.

It’s time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget, that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.

(APPLAUSE)
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms and we all salute the same great American flag.

(APPLAUSE)
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the wind-swept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they will their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator.

(APPLAUSE)
So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words.  You will never be ignored again.

(APPLAUSE) Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

Together, we will make America strong again.  We will make America wealthy again.  We will make America proud again.  We will make America safe again.  And yes, together we will make America great again.

(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.  God bless you.  And God bless America.

(APPLAUSE)
Thank you.

(APPLAUSE)
God bless America.

(APPLAUSE)
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If it all seems confusing as to the way the corporate-media treated Trump during the whole of the campaign season – compared to the media support of Hillary Clinton – and even now after Trump won 27 States to 13 States for Clinton, the so-called corporate-media is still nitpicking everything that Trump says or does even in the face of his successes so far – DON’T BE SURPRISED!   No one can ever understand what HAS HAPPENED to our country or WHAT IS HAPPENING to our country – even now – UNTIL ONE READS ‘THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION’ written 120 years ago just before the turn of the 20th Century!  And here we are more than a hundred-years later and the likes of New York Senator Charles Schumer, minority leader of the Senate, criticizes, condemns and complains about everything Donald Trump suggests for the betterment of America!

Why you might ask?  Because Chuck Schumer is a Khazar-Ashkenazi-Talmudist and ISRAELI-CITIZEN OF THE ZIONIST STATE OCCUPYING PALESTINE – Schumer is a ‘dual-citizen’ holding BOTH a USA-Passport and also an Israeli-Passport, and so is every other Khazar-Ashkenazi in the U.S. Congress – ACTUAL CITIZENS OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT sitting in the legislature of the U.S. House of Representatives & U.S. Senate!

Who do you think Schumer actually represents – Israelis or American-New Yorkers?  Schumer is the most ANTI-GUN PERSON IN CONGRESS who would disarm every American if he could – while at the same time beg for more guns to give to every Israeli so as to kill every Arab-Palestinian!  Schumer would support the death of every American-youth if they were to die for the barbarian-Israelis!  THE REAL TRAGEDY IS THAT MOST AMERICANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ODIOUS-ISRAELIS VERSES THE DESCENDANTS OF THE BIBLICAL-ISREALITES!  That’s something we at THE POCAHONTAS CRIER hope to educate as many as possible about in a new series in the coming weeks! 

BUT FOR NOW – educate yourselves about the plot & scheme devised by those calling themselves ZIONISTS so you too will be able to read between the lines & understand what you hear on the news from the corporate-media which is owned & influenced by the very same ZIONISTS!

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As seen above – DONALD J. TRUMP wants to give the government BACK TO THE PEOPLE – but before he can do that – we first must learn WHO really is in charge of our government and what do they really have in store for the rest of us!  It’s time to take off the blindfold and open our eyes and ears as to what really has happened to our country since WWII.  The future of our children & grand-children depend on it!  Stay tuned for more….!

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Monday, November 21, 2016

VOTER FRAUD...& then some!



(#148) 21 November 2016, Vol.3, No.35 > VOTER FRAUD…& then some!

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‘When the Righteous succeed the people rejoice,
But when the bad govern, men groan!’ – Proverbs 29:2

VOTER FRAUD…& then some!

VOTER FRAUD FROM FOREIGNERS:

The threat to U.S. Elections has never been as bad as recently seen in the 2016 election-cycle whereby FOREIGNERS from every angle have attacked our country – AND VOTED – in order to influence & change our election results so as to TAKE from AMERICAN CITIZENS and GIVE TO THEMSELVES!  Here is a quick analysis of the problem:
1.     Because of DUAL CITIZENSHIP PASSPORTS – ISRAELIS ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE IN OUR ELECTION PROCESS!  Since the Israelis work under a ‘matriarchal’ system, anyone born from an Israeli women becomes an Israeli-citizen AND is permitted to vote in American-elections!  Why not allow Americans to vote in Israeli-elections?  If so, then perhaps we’d all have PEACE IN THE MIDDLE-EAST!
2.   Several other countries are also permitted DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND ALSO VOTE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS!
3.    In U.S. States without VOTER PHOTO ID CARDS, illegal immigrants from Central America have been stealing the identity of Americans for not only ATM machines, but also for VOTING purposes AND also for IDENTITY purposes when required to show Citizenship DOCUMENTATION!

Fact-check: Did 3 million undocumented immigrants vote in this year's election?


Were there 3 million illegal votes from undocumented immigrants in this year’s presidential election?  Well, that’s what some websites are saying.

"Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens," reads a headline on InfoWars, a conspiracy website run by Alex Jones.  The article has been shared via Facebook more than 48,000 times when we last looked.
Other websites also have touted this report, including Milo, TheNewAmerican and FreedomDaily.

So is there any truth to it?

Well, we don’t know for absolute certain.  But the report is actually a tweet, and the person who authored the tweet won’t explain how he arrived at his figure.  If that isn’t reason enough to be skeptical, independent experts and historical analyses suggest it’s highly suspect.

In other words, don’t buy it.

Where’s the report?

As evidence of its claim, InfoWars’ headline refers to a report from www.VoteFraud.org  and tweets from Gregg Phillips, whose Twitter profile says he’s the founder of VoteStand, a voter fraud reporting app.

There is no report from VoteFraud.org, however, and Phillips told PolitiFact he is not affiliated with that website. The information comes from tweets made by Phillips on Nov. 11 and Nov. 13.

Here they are:

We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens.

We are joining .@TrueTheVote to initiate legal action. #unrigged

— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 13, 2016

Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.

Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million.

Consulting legal team.

— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 11, 2016

Phillips would not provide any additional information when asked by PolitiFact. 

He said he has chosen not to release more information because he is still working on analyzing the data and verifying its accuracy.  Phillips would also not say what the data is or where it came from, or what methodology he used.

Phillips said he would release the information publicly once he is finally finished.

According to his page on LinkedIn, Phillips is a former finance director of the Alabama Republican Party. He also served as executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party and was managing director of a super PAC that supported Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign for president.

Plenty of reason to be skeptical

While we have no idea how Phillips arrived at his claim that 3-million non-citizens voted, people who have made similar claims in the past have cited a 2014 report that claims 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010 midterm congressional elections.

That report was based on data from a Harvard survey of people.  But the data was flawed, which created flaws in the subsequent report.

The authors of the survey say a small percentage of respondents, who are citizens, accidentally misidentified themselves as non-citizens on the survey. This is because the respondents didn’t read the question carefully and accidentally selected the wrong response to the question.

How do researchers know this?  One of the authors of the survey, Brian Schaffner, said people changed their answers later when they were asked about their citizenship.

"When we took out people who changed their answer on the citizenship question and only look at people who answered consistently that they were non-citizens, we found no reported non-citizens who voted," Schaffner told PolitiFact.  Other research contradicts Phillips’ tweet.

News 21, a national investigative reporting project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, found just 56 cases of non-citizens voting between 2000 and 2011.

A report by the liberal Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law found that most cases of non-citizens voting were accidental. "Although there are a few recorded examples in which non-citizens have apparently registered or voted, investigators have concluded that they were likely not aware that doing so was improper," reads the 2007 report.

States that have tried to purge non-citizens from voter rolls, meanwhile, have found even government data lacking.

In 2012, Florida Governor Rick Scott’s administration started an effort trying to crack down on non-citizens voting by comparing driver's license data against voter rolls.

Through this process the Florida Department of State created a list of 182,000 potential non-citizens that had voted. That number was whittled down to 2,700, then to about 200 before the purge was stopped amid criticism that the data was flawed given the number of false positives — including a Brooklyn-born World War II vet.

Ultimately, only 85 people were removed from the voting rolls.  State officials began to pursue a second attempt at a purge in advance of the 2014 election but then abandoned that effort, too.

Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, called Phillips’ claim "fake news."

"There is no credible evidence I have seen to show large numbers of non-citizens voting in U.S. elections anywhere," Hasen said. "The idea that 3 million non-citizens could have illegally voted in our elections without being detected is obscenely ludicrous."

Our ruling

Reports claim 3 million "illegal aliens" cast votes in this year's election.
The articles point back to tweets from Gregg Phillips, who has worked for the Republican Party and has a voter fraud reporting app.  But Phillips will not provide any evidence to support his claim, which happens to be undermined by publicly available information.

If Phillips does release a more detailed report, we will consider that information.  But for now, this claim is inaccurate.  We rate it False.

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Phillips, the founder of VoteStand, claims that non-citizen votes exceeded 3 million and that they intended on initiating legal action.  However, when asked to provide his sources and data, Phillips claimed that the information would be released in an open forum as to not “allow the media to spin this first.”

A separate article from 100PercentFedUp claims the “illegal aliens” who voted are currently under investigation, after they were told by President Barack Obama that it was “okay.” It continues:


Can you believe it?  Obama told the illegals it was ok to vote and they followed through. This further confirms that legal Americans came out BIG TIME for Trump and thank goodness they did.  It’s been said that the only way to combat voter fraud is with a huge turnout.  This election proved that theory.  You could also say that Trump would have won the popular vote had it not been for the 3 million illegals voting…

The unproven stories have also claimed that Donald Trump won the popular vote “despite widespread vote fraud.”  However, these claims that millions of “illegal aliens” voted and are under investigation are currently unproven.

Social Media Shares Unproven Claim about 3 Million “Illegal Aliens” Voting

3 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS Under Investigation For Voting…After Obama Told Them It Was Ok >

The impact of… https://t.co/NaCyXKWbW9
— Allen West Republic (@AllenWestRepub) November 16, 2016
REPORT: 3 MILLION Votes in Presidential Election Cast by ILLEGAL ALIENS, 
Non-Citizens https://t.co/CUV4vGKdet pic.twitter.com/ARXGVJrV2u
— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) November 15, 2016

THUS HILLARY DID NOT WIN POPULAR VOTE BY A LONG SHOT "3 Million ILLEGAL Votes in POTUS Election #mustread #feedly https://t.co/Mqr4BfF8eb
— TRUMP & AMERICA WON! (@MOVEFORWARDHUGE) November 14, 2016

#HillaryClinton LOST the popular AMERICAN vote! Her numbers reflect 3 Million illegal aliens who voted! They should be deported immediately https://t.co/RiuZmaEPQl
— DEPLORABLE DEVIL DOG (@leatherneck111) November 17, 2016

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Except when we deduct the 3 MILLION Illegal Aliens who voted for her ILLEGALLY, #PresidentElectTrump won the popular vote, too! https://t.co/T9MP8Ax4zt
— Girlygirl (@GirlygirlinMN) November 17, 2016

What do you think of the claim? Sound off in the comments section below!
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

When you click on: www.votefraud.org  it will take you to:
http://electionnightgatekeepers.com/ and then you will see the BIG PICTURE of just how our country is being stolen from us by foreigners flooding across our borders and stealing us blind in jobs, schools & national & natural resources!

Three million votes in the U.S. presidential election were cast by illegal aliens, according to Greg Phillips of the VoteFraud.org organization.

If true, this would mean that Donald Trump still won the contest despite widespread vote fraud and almost certainly won the popular vote.

“We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens,” tweeted Phillips after reporting that the group had completed an analysis of a database of 180 million voter registrations.

We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens.
We are joining .@TrueTheVote to initiate legal action. #unrigged
— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 13, 2016

“Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million. Consulting legal team,” he added.
Completed analysis of database of 180 million voter registrations.
Number of non-citizen votes exceeds 3 million.
Consulting legal team.
— Gregg Phillips (@JumpVote) November 11, 2016

According to current indications, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by around 630,000 votes, although around 7 million ballots remain uncounted.
Virtually all of the votes cast by 3 million illegal immigrants are likely to have been for Hillary Clinton, meaning Trump might have won the popular vote when this number is taken into account.

Vote fraud using ballots cast in the name of dead people and illegal alien voters was a huge concern before the election.

On the morning of the election there were 4 million dead people on U.S. voter rolls.

Although some states require some form of ID before voting, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C. all require no identification before voting.


"Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."
in articles on the internet – Monday, November 14, 2016

About this statement:

Published: Friday, November 18th, 2016 at 10:58 a.m.
Researched by: Allison Graves, Amy Sherman
Edited by: Angie Drobnic Holan
Subjects: Elections, Immigration

Sources:

Email interview with Rick Hasen, UC-Irvine School of Law political science professor, Nov. 17

Email interview with Adam Cox, law professor at New York University, Nov. 17
Interview, Gregg Phillips, Nov. 17

News 21, "Comprehensive Database of U.S. Voter Fraud Uncovers No Evidence That Photo ID Is Needed," Aug. 12, 2012

Brennan Center for Justice, "The Truth About Voter Fraud," 2007

InfoWars, "REPORT: THREE MILLION VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAST BY ILLEGAL ALIENS," Nov. 14, 2016

Milo, "REPORT: ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS CAST MORE THAN 3 MILLION VOTES IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," Nov. 14, 2016

TheNewAmerican, "Vote Fraud Monitoring Group Says Three Million Noncitizens Voted in Presidential Election," Nov. 14, 2016

Freedom Daily, "3 Million Illegal Immigrants Being Investigated For Voting After Obama Told Them It Was Safe To Do So…" no date

Gregg Phillips, Twitter

The Washington Post, "Florida’s voter purge explained," June 18, 2012

Tampa Bay Times, "Florida Gov. Rick Scott's 2012 voter purge violated federal law, court rules," April 1, 2014

PolitiFact, "Donald Trump wrongly says 14 percent of noncitizens are registered to vote," Oct. 24

PolitiFact, "U.S. Rep. Hastings says Florida's noncitizen voter purge is a "backdoor poll tax." June 7

The Washington Post, "Could non-citizens decide the November election?" Oct. 24, 2014

 

VOTER FRAUD DOMESTICALLY:

Voter Fraud Is Real. Here’s The Proof

By John Gibbs, 13O 2016

Data suggests millions of voter registrations are fraudulent or invalid.  That’s enough to tip an election, easily.

This week, liberals have been repeating their frequent claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist. A recent Salon article argues that “voter fraud just isn’t a problem in Pennsylvania,” despite evidence to the contrary.  Another article argues that voter fraud is entirely in the imagination of those who use voter ID laws to deny minorities the right to vote.

Yet as the election approaches, more and more cases of voter fraud are beginning to surface.  In Colorado, multiple instances were found of dead people attempting to vote.  Stunningly, “a woman named Sara Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.” In Virginia, it was found that nearly 20 voter applications were turned in under the names of dead people.

In Texas, authorities are investigating criminals who are using the technique of “vote harvesting” to illegally procure votes for their candidates.  “Harvesting” is the practice of illegally obtaining the signatures of valid voters in order to vote in their name without their consent for the candidate(s) the criminal supports.

These are just some instances of voter fraud we know about.  It would be silly to assume cases that have been discovered are the only cases of fraud.  Indeed according to a Pew Charitable Trust report from February 2012, one in eight voter registrations are “significantly inaccurate or no longer valid.” Since there are 146 million Americans registered to vote, this translates to a stunning 18 million invalid voter registrations on the books.  Further, “More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters, and approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.” Numbers of this scale obviously provide ripe opportunity for fraud.

Don’t Let Data Contradict My Narrative

Yet in spite of all this, a report by the Brennan Center at New York University claims voter fraud is a myth.  It argues that North Carolina, which passed comprehensive measures to prevent voter fraud, “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.” However, this faulty reasoning does not point to the lack of in-person voter fraud, but rather to lack of enforcement mechanisms to identify and prosecute in-person voter fraud.

The science of criminal justice tells us that many crimes go unreported, and the more “victimless” the crime, the more this happens.  The fact is, a person attempting to commit voter fraud is very unlikely to be caught, which increases the incentive to commit the crime.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is a sophisticated, comprehensive effort to catalog “the number and types of crimes not reported to law enforcement authorities.” However, it tends to deal mostly in violent crimes.  As complex as the NCVS is, gathering accurate data for unreported victimless crimes such as voter fraud is even harder, since (1) outside of the criminal, no one may know a crime has taken place, and (2) there is no direct victim to report the crime in the first place.  Yet we are expected to believe that, unlike violent crime, voter fraud is limited only to the cases that are actually reported and prosecuted?  This is a senseless position.

Further, the Brennan Center report argues that because prosecutor Kris Kobach’s review of 84 million votes cast in 22 states found only 14 instances of fraud referred for prosecution (which amounts to a 0.00000017 percent fraud rate), voter fraud is so statistically small that it’s a non-issue.  Let’s follow this logic.  Does the fact that 109 people were cited for jaywalking in Seattle in 2009 mean that only 109 people jaywalked in Seattle that year?  Does the fact that 103,733 people were cited for driving without a seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015 mean that only that many people were driving without seatbelt in Tennessee in 2015?

Absolutely not.  This can be proven easily because in 2014, the previous year, only 29,470 people were cited.  The disparity is largely due to increased enforcement efforts in 2015.  In other words, increasing enforcement of the crime revealed a much larger number of people committing the crime.

The exact same is true for voter fraud.  We have no reason to believe that the low number of prosecutions means only that exact amount of voter fraud is happening.  Rather, it could mean a lack of enforcement is failing to reveal the bulk of the violations that are occurring.  Thus, as with many types of crimes, especially victimless crimes, the real number of cases is likely significantly higher than the number reported.

How to Effectively Target Voter Fraud

So now that we know voter fraud is a serious issue, what are some solutions to this problem?  States like Michigan have Poll Challenger programs, where observers from both parties may be present at voter check-in tables at precincts.  They check each voter’s ID against a database of registered voters for that precinct to ensure the person attempting to vote is actually legally qualified to vote in that precinct.  If there’s a discrepancy, the poll challenger may officially challenge the ballot.  Other states should implement similar programs.

States should sponsor initiatives to remove dead voters and correct the registrations of people registered in multiple states (make them choose just one state).  Since many local jurisdictions are reluctant to clean their voter rolls, federal or state oversight with teeth may be necessary.

Further, voter ID laws, such as the one implemented by North Carolina, but (wrongly) struck down by three liberal judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit— one appointed by Bill Clinton and the other two appointed by President Obama—are needed to ensure there’s no cheating with votes. States should continue to press the issue regardless of recent setbacks by liberal activist judges.

Finally, some have claimed that strong voter ID laws are racist, because they disproportionately impact minorities and would prevent minorities from voting.  As a black person, I’m naturally interested in this claim.  Thankfully, it turns out to be false.  The Heritage Foundation has shown that black voter turnout actually increased after North Carolina passed its voter ID law.

Not only was the claimed negative outcome false, but the reasoning was faulty as well.  The fact that the law disproportionately impacts minorities does not mean that it is discriminatory.  It means, unfortunately, that fewer minorities are in compliance with common-sense safeguards to protect the integrity of our elections (i.e., having a driver’s license or photo ID).

To mitigate this concern, states can offer a service that will take people without valid ID to their local government office to apply for proper ID, free of charge.  Users could schedule the pickup with their smartphone or a phone call.  That way there will be as few barriers as possible to those who want to vote and are capable of obtaining a valid ID, but cannot due to transportation concerns (a reason often given by those who claim voter ID laws hurt minorities).

So let us not believe false claims that voter fraud doesn’t exist. It’s real, and we must work to stop it, while making sure those who are eligible to vote but without proper ID are accommodated fairly.

An earlier version of this article cited Pew Research instead of Pew Charitable Trusts for a report the latter has published.

[John Gibbs (@realJohnGibbs) is a regular contributor to The Federalist and RealClearPolitics. He’s worked at Apple as an engineer on the iPhone, and has used his fluency in Japanese to teach technology to churches in Japan.  John holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a master in public administration from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.]


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