Posted on 08/27/2015 11:02:27 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A public interest law firm is threatening to bring lawsuits against more than 100 counties across the United States that appear to have more registered voters than living residents.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a law firm dedicated to election integrity based in Indiana, recently sent statutory notice letters to election officials in 141 counties putting them on notice of their discoveries. The group says if action is not taken to correct the questionable voter rolls, they will bring lawsuits against every single county on the list.
“Corrupted voter rolls provide the perfect environment for voter fraud,” said J. Christian Adams, president and general counsel of PILF. “Close elections tainted by voter fraud turned control of the United States Senate in 2009. Too much is at stake in 2016 to allow that to happen again.”
The statutory notice letters argue the counties are violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and urge them to correct the issue, claiming their voter rolls contain a substantially high amount of ineligible voters. The group used federally produced data to come to their conclusions.
“Voter rolls across America have been discovered that contain substantial numbers of ineligible voters, resulting in the possible disenfranchisement of legally eligible voters via ballot dilution that threatens to subvert the nation’s electoral process,” a sample letter sent to the counties reads.
“Based on our comparison of publicly available information published by the U.S. Census Bureau and the federal Election Assistance Commission, your county is failing to comply with Section 8 of the NVRA,” it continues. “Federal law requires election officials to conduct a reasonable effort to maintain voter registration lists free of dead voters, ineligible voters and voters who have moved away.”
“In short, your county has significantly more voters on the registration rolls than it has eligible live voters and is thus not reasonably maintaining the rolls.”
According to PILF, the 141 counties targeted for their suspicious voter rolls span across 21 states and include: Michigan (24 counties), Kentucky (18), Illinois (17), Indiana (11), Alabama (10), Colorado (10), Texas (9), Nebraska (7), New Mexico (5), South Dakota (5), Kansas (4), Mississippi (4), Louisiana (3), West Virginia (3), Georgia (2), Iowa (2), Montana (2), and North Carolina (2), as well as Arizona, Missouri, and New York (1 each).
Data provided by the group also shows that some counties have voter registration rates that exceed 150 percent.
Franklin County, located in Illinois, contains the highest voter registration rate of any county on the list at 190 percent. Franklin is followed by Pulaski County, also located in Illinois. Pulaski boasts a 176 percent voter registration rate, according to the group.
Adams said former Attorney General Eric Holder and current AG Loretta Lynch refused to enforce the law because they don’t have a problem with corrupted voter rolls.
“Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch have deliberately refused to enforce this law because they have no problem with corrupted voter rolls,” Christian Adams told the Washington Free Beacon in an email statement. “They don’t like the law, so they don’t enforce it. It’s a pattern that has come to characterize this Justice Department.”
Appeals court strikes down key part of Texas Voter ID law
Supreme Court Allows Wisconsin to Keep Voter ID Law ".... the justices’ refusal to hear objections to the law means that Wisconsin will become the eighth state with a strict photo identification law that allows no exceptions to a government-issued ID. The others are Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
…Oral arguments in the Texas case are scheduled for next month before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Supreme Court lets Wisconsin voter ID law stand,
How many of those counties are heavily Democrat?
Interesting that Franklin county is a rural county almost 100% white.
Nothing will be done about it.
Seriously, if you started to shoot all the dirty public officials and no-show hires, the ranking guy in the state would be a dog catcher out near Galena.
My instant take is that most or all of these counties are rural and white. They don’t want to spend scarce money to purge the voter rolls. These counties would tend to have honest elections. One county had 5000 population.
A lot of counties are very slow in removing people who have died or moved away. There should be a system to remove people who have registered elsewhere. If such a thing exists it does not work well. Also voter rolls should be checked against the Social Security death list.
According to the article Franklin county in Illinois leads with 190% - and surprisingly it’s an almost 100% white rural county.
Thanks. WOW! I goofed.
It is across the board.
Henderson County Illinois 148%
Lowndes county has a population of around 11,000....it’s to the southwest of Montogmery. You can figure that roughly 8,000 are over the age of eighteen. For 2012, it was roughly 7,400 people voting (Romney got 1,754 votes).
My bet is that they’ve got a dead-voter problem, and a transitory problem where people move and register in another county, but the clerk at Lowndes carries them on the register. The county clerk’s job is fairly important and typically, in Alabama, you don’t get the smartest or brightest person in the position. All you need is 300 dead folks on the register for a county of this size....to mess up the numbers.
That’s racist! Obama could never have won without his millions of dead and fictional voters.
The "election" in 2008 stolen.
The "election" in 2012 was rigged and stolen.
There won't be an "election" in 2016. Obama is emperor.
Look at that arrogant prick on the left of that photo. I despise that person (I actually wrote man but decided he is no “man”)
great post!
I grew up in Franklin county. if you wanted a govt(city, county, etc) job...you had to be a democrat....at least that was the way it was when i was there a few decades ago. Still have relatives that live there.
it has been in decline since the coal mines closed many years ago.
I live in Lowndes county. We’ve had a problem with absentee ballots for awhile. This is a very heavily black county. It always goes democrat. Still it is a great place to live.
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