Posted on 06/01/2016 3:38:38 AM PDT by Benny Huang
Who says there's no such thing as life after death? If voting rolls are any indicator, dead people these days are living very active lifestyles. According to an investigative report by CBS2, Los Angeles's CBS affiliate, some dead people continue to vote years after meeting their maker.
The investigation revealed that 265 dead voters across five counties in southern California voted in recent elections, 215 of them in Los Angeles County. Some of the deceased cast ballots in multiple elections. Thirty-two of those deceased voters were found to have voted eight times since kicking the bucket. One woman who died in 1988 managed to vote in 2014.
I can think of only two explanations--either the Zombie Apocalypse is upon us or someone's been cheatin'. I lean toward the latter.
Don't let anyone tell you that voter fraud is a victimless crime. Every ballot illegitimately cast cancels out someone else's vote. It's no different than reaching into the ballot box and removing a ballot. It's a suckerpunch to the democratic process and should be punished severely.
Oddly enough, some people seem to react to voter fraud and voter suppression very differently, as if they're different phenomena meriting different responses. Voter suppression is considered such a heinous crime that no incident of it will be tolerated--unless perpetrated by billy-club wielding black racists, of course--while voter fraud is considered regrettable but ultimately immaterial. After all, what's a few votes here and there? Is it really going to tip an election one way or the other? The answer, in some instances, is yes; though that's not really the point. There's a principle at stake here and the principle applies whether the margin of victory is a handful of votes or a million.
Any attempt to root out corruption in the electoral process is bound to meet stiff resistance from so-called "civil rights" groups that will invariably stir up racial fears. Voter ID laws, the reformers' tool of choice for combating voter fraud, have been painted as an attempt to resurrect Jim Crow. Minority voters lack suitable forms of identification, they say, and making them obtain an ID amounts to an unconstitutional poll tax. It's a weak argument made even weaker by the fact that some states provide IDs for free. Some notable "civil rights" organizations continue to oppose voter ID, grasping at increasingly ephemeral straws to justify their position. Nothing will satisfy them except anarchy at the polling stations--no controls, no verification, and no integrity in the final tally. That's the way they like it.
Cleaning up voter rolls, however, is not the same as voter ID. What objection could there possibly be? You guess it--cleaning up voter rolls is raaaaacist! Or at least that's the contention of the corrupt, disreputable NAACP. A recent attempt by Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, to weed out noncitizens and other people who have no legal right to vote has been challenged by the NAACP and members of the opposition party. Florida House Minority Leader Mark Pattford weighed in: "[Governor Scott] can probably find more reports of UFOs and space aliens in Florida than there are reports of fraudulent voting in the state."
Pattford surely knows that Miami, which is about an hour south of his district in West Palm Beach, was rocked with one of the biggest voter fraud cases in American history less than twenty years ago. The city's Democratic mayor, Xavier Suarez, was removed from office in 1998 when it was discovered that his campaign had won the previous year's primary by tampering with absentee ballots. Among the 895 ballots examined, 197 were found to be suspicious. Some were cast by, you guessed it, dead people.
Homeless people were also paid $10 apiece to vote for Suarez. Witnesses identified a local man named Jeffrey Hoskins as a paymaster. Hoskins, who denied being part of the Suarez scheme, admitted that he had engaged in "two or three" other $10-a-vote operations. He also bragged that he had participated in an unspecified number of $15 to $25 voting buying schemes. "It exists. It always exists," said Hoskins. "You go to Liberty City, Coconut Grove -- everybody knows about the $10. If they say they didn't, they're lying."
So illegal voting in Florida is not nearly as rare as extraterrestrials.
The argument against cleaning up voter rolls seems to be that any attempt to purge ineligible voters will, either by happenstance or design, purge eligible voters too--and minorities disproportionately. So just to be on the safe side, let's not purge any.
Here we are back at the flawed premise that no one is harmed when voter fraud is tolerated. Let's examine for a moment the dead voters discovered in the CBS2 investigation to see just how wrongheaded that notion is. According to their investigation, 32 dead voters voted in at least eight elections; that's 256 illegally cast ballots. We also know that the other 233 dead voters voted at least once. By combining the two we know that 489 ballots were illegally cast and the same number of voters were disenfranchised. Again, that's a minimum. But rather than doing something about it some people prefer not to see a problem and compare the whole affair to UFO sightings.
The states' voting rolls are saturated with names that don't belong there--noncitizens, the deceased, people who have moved away, and in some cases, fictitious people. States such as Iowa and Colorado, both considered swing states, have more registered voters than people over the age of 18. When Indiana was forced to defend its voter ID law before the Supreme Court in 2008, the court found that 41.4 percent of all voter registrations in the state were spurious entries. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this situation?
Maine has its own problems as evidenced by a 2011 report from the Maine Heritage Policy Center. After combing through that state's voter rolls it discovered 1,452 voters who were 211 years old. Why are these people still on the voter rolls? Who could possibly be "disenfranchised" by eliminating them?
States are actually required under section 8 of the 1993 Motor Voter Law to cleanse voter rolls of bad entries. The law, which I despise by the way, represented a compromise between Democrats who wanted to make voter registration easy--by registering people at the DMV, for example--and Republicans who wanted to ensure the integrity of voter rolls. A deal was hammered out requiring states to register voters at several points of contact with their citizens but also mandating measures to purge deadwood voters.
Like most compromises with the Democrats, this one turned out to be a raw deal. Since the rise of Barack Obama no effort has been made to enforce section 8. Nice "compromise." True to form, the Democrats appeared to concede on an issue before reneging on their agreement when they thought no one was paying attention.
In 2009, the former chief of the DOJ's Voting Rights Section, Christopher Coates, testified that Julie Fernandes, an Obama political appointee, instructed him not to pursue any section 8 cases. Coates testified that he had identified eight states that appeared to be in noncompliance and was prepared to bring action against them when the order came to stand down.
I don't actually believe that the feds have any constitutional jurisdiction in this matter but they've nonetheless taken it for themselves. The law, which still stands, is now only partially enforced. The part that Democrats like is upheld while the part they don't like is, for all intents and purposes, dead. This is the stuff of banana republics.
Deadwood voters on our voter rolls are a real problem, as the CBS2 investigation proved. It's too easy to vote in a dead person's name, either by absentee ballot or in person. People who refuse to acknowledge the problem are just shameless. A few of them may be dupes but the majority of them, I believe, are aware that they're enabling electoral shenanigans. They know very well that if they can't cheat they can't win.
Apparently “cleaning the rolls” means something different? There shouldn’t be any voter rolls. It should be “want to vote? Register 30 days beforehand” and show up with your one-use registration ticket.
Democrats were bragging about how they call people to see if they’re planning on voting, and voting FOR anyone that said no. This is blatant theft of an election when it barely takes 5k votes to flip an entire State.
Too many votes and it becomes obvious...
Then they ‘vote the people’ who didn't show up to vote. That's how ‘the dead’ get swept up in the vote. They never show up because they're dead.
Haven't you ever wondered why some precincts don't get their vote in until hours after the polls close? Doesn't that strike you as odd?
The only way to stop voter fraud is by analyzing the ‘dead vote’... and having stiff (no pun) penalties for fraud.
Well, the article I read said that they did indeed call people and ask if they were voting. They bragged about this. All those that said no, voted D because a fraudulently filled out a ballot was cast on their behalf.
You are correct, of course, they do hold the reporting until they know how many votes they need. That is why they can flip a state by manufacturing "just enough."
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