Posted on 01/26/2017 1:35:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Voter fraud is in the news again, with President Trump vowing an investigation and the liberal media assuring us that voter fraud does not exist. My question is always: why are they so confident that there is little or no fraud, when so few efforts are made to look for it?
Here in Minnesota, there is no possible way for anyone to know how much voter fraud occurred last November. Minnesota is a same-day registration state, and more than 500,000 voters register on the day of a presidential election. The Minnesota Voters Alliance explains why that is a problem:
Two quick things that should give you a better understanding of what we are complaining about… When the average folks learn about this, they are shocked!
1. First, here is a short video that [former Secretary of State] Mark Ritchie did a few years ago on Capitol Report, which clearly shows there are EIGHT different databases (however insufficient) that all new Registrants are checked against, either BEFORE, or AFTER, the election:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Notice that he conveniently FAILS TO MENTION that NONE Of these checks are done for persons (about 15% to 20% of the voters) who register on election day. Same day registrants aren’t checked for MONTHS AFTER the election is certified.
Voter Registration Application’s (VRA’s) are not entered and verified until AFTER the election. Statute allows the counties 42 days to enter the data, unless they need even more time. VRA’s have to be entered before they can be checked or compared to any databases!!
2. Here is the other link…on the SOS website showing that Election Day Registrants in presidential election years average OVER 500,000. 2016 is only showing 340,000 because that number is not complete, it will more than likely exceed 550,000 when are ALL finally entered into the Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS). Notice all PRESIDENTIAL election years have exceeded 500,000. (2016 could be closer to 600K due to newly adopted NO EXCUSE Absentee Voting.)
Finally, … the truth is that [Secretary of State] Simon doesn’t know for certain that Hillary won Minnesota because over 500,000 people have NOT BEEN CHECKED AT ALL YET. Seems to me like it’s FAKE NEWS for the SOS to to tell the people of MN that Hillary won the election in MN when he simply does not know, nor could he know.
Voter fraud is concentrated among same-day registrants, and nearly all illegal ballots are cast for Democrats. Hillary Clinton reportedly won Minnesota by around 45,000 votes. This means that if 10% of those who same-day registered also voted illegally (non-citizens, convicted felons, already voted in another state, etc.), Donald Trump probably carried the state. But the result can’t be changed because Minnesota doesn’t have provisional voting. The votes of the 500,000 to 600,000 people who registered on election day have been counted.
Do I think it is likely that Trump carried Minnesota? No. But we probably will never know, and we certainly don’t know now. Trump’s investigation into voter fraud is long overdue.
Minnesota state officials should face severe consequences if the federal investigations uncover evidence of the willful allowing and failing to stop vote fraud.
If the evidence results in a trial conviction, the severe consequences should include the convicted official being a rope tester.
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Bttt.
5.56mm
the federal government audits everything that moves. every day 24/7. except voting. national shame.
I’ve asked how did the Trump wave turn Michigan, Wisconsin and PA red, yet he didn’t win or do better in several other states? Such a trend is usually national.
Who cares? Donald Trump carried America.
I lived much of my life in Wisconsin.....Minnesota has ALWAYS seemed weird to me.....getting worse as years go by !!!
AMEN....although early voting is pretty much just a convenience benefit for people who might be busy/working/on vacation/scheduled for surgery/whatever.
It looks increasingly likely that at least one member of the United States Senate may owe his seat in the world’s greatest deliberative body not to his charisma or the persuasiveness of his message but to voter fraud.
As the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund reports, Minnesota Democrat Al Franken’s narrow, 312-vote victory in 2008 over incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman may have come as the result of people being allowed to vote who, under existing law, shouldn’t have been.
Spot on. I used to 'live' in that sh*thole, and I would see that every four years...parking lots at polling places would fill up with cars with Asschusetts and Maine plates, and you knew the fraud was underway.
Some state needs to be made an example of, so why not Minnesota? By all means, Trump should launch an investigation.
Based on what I’ve read, Nevada and Minnesota should both be in Trump’s EV count. New Hampshire and Colorado, maybe.
As for Virginia — which I still love above all the places I have called home — you have balance McAwful’s freeing of the felon vote against the legitimate, if distasteful, votes of federal employees. On balance, I think Hillary probably won this state, although her tally was plumped up by the felons.
Still, once Trump gets done purging the federal workforce, the Old Dominion may once again become proudly conservative.
I’m hoping the new NH governor will stop that crap.
The center of the fraud is 2 spots. The Indian reservations (zero oversight essentially) in the north, and 5 districts in Minneapolis. I suspect the turnout to these areas was somewhere around 250% of the actual population.
That’s what absentee ballots are for.
The last time I voted in Minnesota, I got the stink eye from the election judge when I showed my ID. This was the year (2010) that the state threatened to arrest anyone wearing a t-shirt saying “Ask for my ID” to the polling place. That was the year that Crazy Eyes Mark Dayton took the governor’s office. In 2011 I moved back to Texas.
Also, I think the overall margin was around 50,000 votes.
So presumably, it would be close...
It’s a bit different in outstate Minnesota, many of the judges are conservative but they still have to follow the loose laws. I registered on the same day just because we moved and I kept putting off registering ahead of time. If the laws were different I would have found the time to register.
We had to show ID and a current utility bill as proof of residence to register on the same day. I think the cheaters get around it by having a registered voter verify that the new voter lives in that district. I’ve heard stories of one person verifying a bus load.
You nailed it.
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