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Experts: California voter registration system 'highly susceptible' to fraud
Fox News ^ | 02/01/2017 | Malia Zimmerman

Posted on 02/01/2017 7:06:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind

California’s voter registration system is “highly susceptible to being compromised,” because of immigration policies protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants, authorities have told Fox News.

The integrity of elections may be compromised by a lack of oversight of non-citizens registering and voting, said Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and senior legal fellow for the Institute for Constitutional Government at The Heritage Foundation.

“If you are talking about California, the state is apparently relying on the illegal alien to tell the state they shouldn’t be registered. There is still an honor system,” said von Spakovsky, co-author of the book “Who's Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”

The problem with California is there is no separate verification of citizenship on voter registration, said Charles Bell, Jr., a partner with California-based Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, LLP, a law firm that specializes in election law. Applicants can check a box affirming they are citizens, and this is not checked against any other government database such as federal immigration records.

We have an honor system, which is effective for people who are honorable, but is also an opportunity for people who are not honorable,” Bell said. “There is a gap in the system, and we don’t have administrative folks who will be aggressive about looking into that.”

One concern, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Washington D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, is that California issues driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, allowing them to automatically be registered to vote under the federal “motor-voter” laws. Since the AB60 law went into effect in 2015, 806,000 illegal immigrants have received a license.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; bluestates; ca2016; california; cultureofcorruption; fraud; voterfraud; voterregistration
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1 posted on 02/01/2017 7:06:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s encouraged.


2 posted on 02/01/2017 7:07:13 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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3 posted on 02/01/2017 7:07:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind (q)
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To: SeekAndFind
Do these experts not understand that the California voter registration system was designed to be 'highly susceptible' to fraud?
4 posted on 02/01/2017 7:08:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Shocked, I tell you. Nobody could have imagined this would be the case.


5 posted on 02/01/2017 7:08:38 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, duh.

It’s not accidental, either.


6 posted on 02/01/2017 7:08:42 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was designed for fraud.


7 posted on 02/01/2017 7:09:19 PM PST by umgud
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To: SeekAndFind

I can tell you that the figure for Virginia is way low.
Likely low for every other state as well.


8 posted on 02/01/2017 7:10:17 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

It sure would be nice if there were 2.5 million fewer people clogging up the roads and schools and emergency rooms and everywhere else.


9 posted on 02/01/2017 7:10:22 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( More and More Winning! ))))
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To: SeekAndFind

Motor Voter + giving illegals driving licenses = MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD


10 posted on 02/01/2017 7:16:13 PM PST by 2banana (My cng ommon ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine a department store promising “we won’t check to see if you paid!”, and asserting that there’s “zero evidence of theft”.


11 posted on 02/01/2017 7:17:08 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: SeekAndFind

What did they think motor voter was all about?

We saw this coming a mile away.

We were powerless to stop it, but it was a given.

Mission accomplished.

Republicans for the most party were just fine with it too.


12 posted on 02/01/2017 7:19:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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“protecting the Golden State’s 2.4 million illegal immigrants”

hmmm... that number sounds vaguely familiar... what was clinton’s popular vote margin again???


13 posted on 02/01/2017 7:26:49 PM PST by CaptainKip
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, duh!
President Trump is correct!
AND the demonic-rats KNOW it!


14 posted on 02/01/2017 7:29:36 PM PST by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So I wonder who voted multiple times??


15 posted on 02/01/2017 7:34:05 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: CaptainKip

LOL

I hear ya.

Remember, those figures are 2010 figures too.


16 posted on 02/01/2017 7:36:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Today’s NSS Award (No Sh** Sherlock) goes to these “experts”. Captain Obvious will present the award tomorrow morning.


17 posted on 02/01/2017 7:45:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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LOL


18 posted on 02/01/2017 7:53:33 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So what pressure can Trump bring to bear to fix this? This is impacting Federal elections.


19 posted on 02/01/2017 7:54:32 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind

Less than a million illegals in NY and only 1.6M in Texas? I find that hard to believe.


20 posted on 02/01/2017 7:58:45 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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