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While the mainstream news media are beginning to cover the story of rampant voter fraud perpetrated by liberal organizations such as ACORN, don't expect reporters to provide anymore than a passing interest in preventing illegal aliens -- or even legal immigrants -- from voting.
Reports of ineligible persons registering to vote have raised concerns about state processes for verifying voter registration lists. States usually base voter eligibility on the voter's age, US citizenship, mental competence, and felon status.
Although individual states run elections, Congress has authority to affect the administration of the elections. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) had set a deadline for states to have a statewide voter registration list and list verification procedures.
For example, the methods used in seven selected states to verify voter eligibility and ensure accuracy of voter registration lists were varied and include relying on registrant self attestation, return mailings, and checking against lists of felony convictions or deceased individuals. Some states, for instance, failed to do any more than ask on their application forms if the registrant was a US citizen. The applicant will merely check off the "Yes" box, but there is no action taken to verify the authenticity of that answer.
"The voter registration officials simply take the word of the registrant with no follow-up," said conservative political strategist Michael Baker.
"Some states that require some backup documentation merely ask for a utility bill or a driver's license — neither of which prove citizenship. In other words, legal or illegal aliens can easily register to vote in local and national elections," warns Baker.
According to a Congressional study of voter fraud, other challenges such as identifying duplicate registrations in other states or having insufficient information to match other data sources with voter registration lists may continue to be issues. < http://www,gao.gov/htext/d05478.html >
While federal data sources have the potential to help state election officials identify registrants who may be convicted felons or non-citizens, few states communicate with federal agencies such as the Homeland Security Department's immigration section.
Many government officials — mostly liberals — claim that illegal aliens voting is not a major problem, conservative activists respond that while the potential number identified may be small, an election can be decided by a few votes. In 2000, the presidential race between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush was decided by a few hundred votes in Florida.
"While the news media perpetuated the assertion that Bush and the GOP 'stole' the election, it could very well have been illegal aliens voting in Florida that made the outcome so close," said former NYPD cop, now security firm owner, Sid Francis.
"Bush may have beaten Gore by more votes if illegals were excluded, since immigrants tend to vote for Democrats. Or Gore could have won decisively had there been prior screening before people were allowed into the voting booths," said Det. Francis.
"There was absolutely no mention in the mainstream media regarding suspected voter fraud by illegal or legal aliens. It was much easier for the agenda-driven newspeople to accuse Republicans of stealing the election," added Baker.
"Florida is not unique. Thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in some states, and tens if not hundreds of thousands in total may be present on the voter rolls nationwide. These numbers are significant: Local elections are often decided by only a handful of votes, and even national elections have likely been within the margin of the number of non-citizens illegally registered to vote," said Hans A. von Spakovsky, a researcher at the Heritage Foundation.
"There is no reliable method to determine the number of non-citizens registered or actually voting because most laws to ensure that only citizens vote are ignored, are inadequate, or are systematically undermined by government officials. Those who ignore the implications of non-citizen registration and voting either are willfully blind to the problem or may actually favor this form of illegal voting," said Spakovsky, an expert on the subject of illegal aliens and immigration law, during an interview on Fox News Channel.
As far as felons, US Attorneys are required to notify state election officials of federal felony convictions, but the information is not always easy for election officials to interpret or complete, according to New Jersey GOP strategist Janice Martin.
"Americans would be shocked to discover that hundreds of thousands of general election voters are illegal aliens, green-card immigrants, and criminals who've murdered, raped and robbed US citizens. And guess which political party benefits the most from their votes? The one that's pushing for amnesty and a bag full of free goodies," said Martin.
Dr. von Spakovsky believes many government officials and politicians are complicit in the voter fraud problem.
"To keep non-citizens from diluting citizens' votes, immigration and election officials must cooperate far more effectively than they have to date, and state and federal officials must increase their efforts to enforce the laws against non-citizen voting that are already on the books," he wrote in his Heritage Foundation study on illegal alien voter fraud. < http://www.heritage.org/ >
"While the liberal media and the liberal establishment ignore what is a huge scandal, American voters are having their rights violated. When an illegal alien or felon or other person prohibited by law to vote, their votes cancels out those of American citizens," warns Baker.
"Liberals want illegal aliens and felons to vote. They benefit from such rampant fraud."
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Comments
You cannot have VOTER FRAUD unless you FIRST have VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD and then it is almost impossible to detect.
ACORN, SEIU, TIDES FOUNDATION, all corrupt outfits. AL connected. ALL SUPPORTED by this administration.
Their little paranoid racist smear campaign goose steps on. How do you have "massive fraud" when you have no evidence? Keep cranking out alarmist opinion pieces. These pop up periodically. There is a long ugly history of established power groups making racist voter fraud claims about immigrant groups in America, meanwhile the same groups have engaged in vote denial campaigns; increased barriers to voting that help keep any one with a job away from polls; positing fake cops outside of certain polling places, losing ballots, polling places that never open and et cetera. Acorn a just a bunch of fair-haired idealists that think if everyone voted the world would be a far better place. Setting up Acorn as some kind of secret agent for people that live below the poverty level is ridiculous. "Blame the weak" has worked in the past but the conservatives have impoverished too many decent people while putting themselves on the government teat - no one believes them any more.
Lyle Delp, will you join in and demand ACORN and their financing arm Citizen’s Consulting,Inc. OPEN THEIR BOOKS to an independent audit?
Why are these people demanding it? What do they have to gain?
www.acorn-8.net
ACORN National Louisiana
1024 Elysian Fields Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70117
www.citizensconsulting.org/
Note the address of BOTH are the exact same.
Lyle Delp says: "Setting up Acorn as some kind of secret agent for people that live below the poverty level is ridiculous."
There is nothing SECRET about it. It is right on their own website! DUHHH!
"Mission Statement
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) aims to organize a majority consituency of low- to moderate-income people across the United States."
ACORN stared as the National Welfare Rights Organization. Demanding welfare for all. Wade Rathke came from NWRO and started ACORN and later went on to create the SEIU union.
Get educated Lyle.
What planet do you live on L
I don't doubt voter fraud has been shamefully ignored by government and media, but even worse and far more dangerous is the government and media failing to question Obama/Soetoro/Obama's eligibility since he has failed to prove he is a natural born citizen.
The SSA estimates 7.5 million illegal aliens are committing identity fraud, with stolen SSNs, to work at jobs requiring an I-9, W-4, etc. They purchase fraudulent documents such as counterfeit Social Security cards, forged drivers licenses, fake “green cards,” and phony birth certificates.
Children are prime targets. In Arizona, it is estimated that over one million children are victims of identity theft. In Utah, 1,626 companies were found to be paying wages to the SSNs of children on public assistance under the age of 13. These individuals suffer very real and very serious consequences in their lives.
Illegal immigration and high levels of identity theft go hand-in-hand. States with the most illegal immigration also have high levels of job-related identity theft. In Arizona, 33 percent or all identity theft is job-related (as opposed to identity theft motivated simply by profit). In Texas it is 27 percent; in New Mexico, 23 percent; in Colorado, 22 percent; California, 20 perc
Nice spin, Lyle. It sounds like you're the spokesperson for ACORN.
Fraud is perpetrated in California constantly. The Loretta Sanchez election was fraud, in which illegal aliens had votes counted. Where is Jimmy Carter anyway. Instead of constantly worrying about monitoring the elections of third world nations, Mr. Carter should be monitoring elections in California and other U.S. States. These leaders and ex-leaders we have are a BIG JOKE. A BIG JOKE.
We have been aware for a long long time what has been going on. In our town folks have been called for Jury duty and they said they couldn't serve because they were not legal citizens. Their service was called off the voters register. Don't mess with the american vote it will come up to strike you HARD!!!
We had an illegal woman deported out of Seattle, WA who had an active voter registration card in her possession. 5 years ago we had a Governors race that was decided by a little over 300 votes. Washington State does the motor-voter thing...no verification of citizenship is done for the registration to vote. If nay of you think illegal aliens aren't voting, you have rocks in your head.
And, yes, it CAN cause someone to be put in office that shouldn't be.
Voting is useless as some illegal alien will cancel out your vote. Now BO has taken over the census with ACORN as a major player to ensure democratic party dominance.
The elections in Iran are more honest than the elections here, where anyone can vote without ID.
Future "elections" will be decided by assasination.
Lyle Delp, yet another clueless American?
70 thousand Somalis in Minnesota equals al frankenstein. 50 thousand Somalis in Maine can you say "rock the vote" or rob the vote from whitie
There has to be some kind of benefit to being an American citizen. This was always to right to vote. We have to pay for the illegals who need special services because of the language barriers, and subsidize their incomes. We shouldn't have to worry about them being allowed to vote in our countries elections. If they want to vote, then they should have to become citizens. We don't have to tolerate this. This should be a deportable offense even to the people who register them. What is the point of being a citizen if the law only makes sure that we pay taxes or else, but we don't demand that this to be expected from illegals and now they could possible be voting and not paying taxes. What is the point of being a citizen if there is no benefit to it. I don't want to pay taxes either but I have to. I have to prove I am who I say I am, but they don't have to. Now we have people who are ensuring their right to vote! Not fair.
So you're saying the Democrats aren't upholding the Constitution? Imagine that.
The democrats haven't won an election (incl. BO's) legally in decades. They NEED the criminal immigrants illegal vote to get elected. This says it all folks ... "Democrat Francine Busby, Busby told a room full of illegal aliens that they didn't need "papers" — meaning identification — to vote. Thank goodness it was recorded and played on talk radio shows across the nation. Busby lost because she got caught saying what many other Democrats may tell illegal aliens." The dem party is the criminal party.
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