The 5th Circuit had found that since the vast majority of Texas voters could meet the ID requirement, Texas simply had to amend the law to come up with a way for the small number of individuals who couldn’t.
The presence on the rolls of the deceased and duplicate registrations provides fertile ground for would-be vote fraudsters. There’s no reason whatsoever for those registrations to remain on the books. Yet Democrats and self-styled “voting rights” groups are crying foul.
They were voting by absentee ballot in Vermont, deciding who would represent in public offices people who actually live here. That’s vote fraud, right? Wrong! At least according to our Secretary of State’s office.
Automatic voter registration has passed the six-month mark in Vermont, and the secretary of state says the new program has produced “dramatic increases” in voter rolls.
A Connecticut family listed among the defendants in an ongoing voter fraud lawsuit has admitted voting in Vermont elections, according to public court documents. Family members said they got approval to do so from the Vermont Secretary of State’s office.
The report found that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes from people who registered and voted in more than one state.
The tweets weren’t exactly the “we’re working overtime to safeguard our elections” talk one might expect from a chief elections official.
Allowing an ineligible voter to cast a ballot cancels out the vote of a legal voter, effectually erasing that legal voter’s vote. The outcome is the same as if the legal voter had been physically blocked from entering the polling place. This is unacceptable.
The Heritage Foundation released a new edition of its voter fraud database. The database documents 1,071 instances of voter fraud spanning 47 states, including 938 criminal convictions.
Instead of arguing whether voter fraud was real, the commissioners focused on how to prevent voter fraud, verifying voter rolls to ensure only eligible voters are registered, increasing funding for new voting machines, and ways to increase voter participation.
One tool at the commission’s disposal is a database that compiles 1,071 cases of proven instances of voter fraud across the United States, the bulk of them prosecuted since 2000. Of those cases, 938 ended in a criminal conviction.
An elections commission set up by President Donald Trump has garnered opposition from states such as Vermont, but the Democrat founder of a national, nonpartisan elections watchdog group says voter fraud — especially regarding the use of absentee ballots — is a serious problem that needs to be investigated.