Election expert: 'Obama told a whopper of a lie on voter fraud'
White House 'knowingly and intentionally refused' to make states clean up election records
One of the leading election fraud experts says there is virtually no way to determine how many fraudulent votes were cast in 2016, but he is applauding President Trump’s call for an investigation, saying the U.S. is long overdue in taking important steps to ensure more accurate elections.
Trump has said repeatedly that he believes the votes of illegal aliens across the United States are responsible for Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote. The issue flared again, both at a White House press briefing and in a pair of Trump tweets, that announce his call for a formal probe.
Former Federal Elections Commission member Hans von Spakovsky now manages the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation. While not weighing on Trump’s specific assertions, Von Spakovsky told WND and Radio America a thorough federal investigation into voting laws is clearly warranted.
“I think it’s long overdue,” he said. “There’s never been any systematic, organized effort by the federal government to try to improve and check on the election integrity of the United States. I think this is a great idea.”
He said Trump’s call is a radical departure from the Obama administration’s position. “It’s a complete turnaround from the Obama administration, which for the past eight years has done everything it can to try to stop improvements in election integrity: things like Voter ID, things like verifying the citizenship of people who are registered to vote,” von Spakovsky said. “The Obama administration has tried to stop that and has minimized or basically said, ‘There’s no fraud to worry about anywhere.'”
While the media point out that Trump has provided no evidence of his assertions that millions of illegal aliens cast ballots last year, von Spakovsky said the same press corps had no problem with President Obama’s collision with the facts on this same issue earlier in the month.
“President Obama told a whopper of a lie in his last press release, when he said that when he got out of office he would continue to oppose voter ID and other efforts to try to keep people out of the polls and then claimed that we were the only Western democracy that does that, when, in fact, we are one of the only Western democracies that does not require photo ID when you go vote,” he said.
Von Spakovsky said no one knows how much voter fraud occurs, but he said the system is ripe for exploitation for several reasons. Some of the biggest vulnerabilities lie in outdated voter rolls.
“There’s almost three million people who are registered in more than one state,” he said. “How many of those are actually voting in more than one state at the same time, which is, of course, illegal? We don’t know because nobody’s actually checked that out to look at it.”
Also on the rolls are many people who couldn’t possibly show up to vote. “There are almost two million people that are dead who are still on voter rolls across the country,” von Spokovsky said. “How many of those are just an error, and how many are actually still voting because someone’s using their name? Again, we don’t know because there’s never been any systematic check of that.”
He said there is concrete evidence of dead people voting in some locales. “Right before the election, a CBS TV station in Los Angeles actually started checking that. They found several hundred people just in Los Angeles who had been dead for years but had continued to vote in multiple elections,” he said.
The problem, says von Spakovsky, is that proving voter fraud in past elections is very difficult. “It’s very difficult to investigate voter fraud cases. It’s like the cases I just mentioned in California, several hundred people casting ballots after they died. Obviously somebody forged their signature, somebody forged their ballot,” he said. “Trying to find out who that was is going to be pretty difficult."
So what can be done to strengthen election integrity in the future? Von Spakovsky said the first step is to get the most accurate voter rolls possible. “The Justice Department has the ability to file suit because there is a federal law that requires state and local election officials to maintain the accuracy of their voter rolls, to clean them up, to take off people who have died and moved away,” he said. “Many folks haven’t been complying with that law, and the Obama administration knowingly and intentionally refused to enforce that provision."
The next step, he said, is to confirm who is actually eligible to vote. “The Department of Homeland Security needs to start sharing its database on non-citizens in the country with election officials all over the country, so they can check it and find people who shouldn’t be on the rolls because they’re not U.S. citizens,” von Spakovsky said.
He said rooting out ineligible voters should also take place at the time they register. “The other step that has to be taken, because of the fact that illegal aliens are being given driver’s licenses, is that states have to put in requirements that you provide proof of citizenship when you register to vote,” von Spakovsky said.
And he has one more idea.
"Juries are drawn from voter registration lists,” he explained. “One thing that is not done consistently around the country is, when people are excused from jury duty because they’re not a U.S. citizen, that information needs to be given by the local courts to local election officials so they can take those people off the rolls. That’s not being done in many, many states.”
Von Spakovsky would like to see all states adopt provisions requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls, and he would extend that requirement to absentee voters as well, something he said most states with voter ID laws have not done.
And von Spakovsky said Trump could get the ball rolling on almost all of this without running it by Congress.
“A lot of it can be done administratively through the executive branch, which the Trump administration now controls, particularly the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security,” he said.
In addition to contending there isn’t much of a voter fraud problem in the U.S., Democrats also assert that voter ID and other provisions could disenfranchise the most vulnerable citizens, namely minorities and the poor.
Von Spakovsky said it’s exactly the opposite. “The victims (who have their votes stolen) in these cases often are the poor and minorities. An individual who was convicted of voter fraud up in Try, New York, just a couple of years ago was asked specifically why they were targeting poor minority neighborhoods. He said, ‘They’re the people least likely to notice or complain that their vote’s been stolen,'” von Spakovsky said. He added, “This effort will actually help the poor. It will help racial minorities and ensure their vote doesn’t get stolen.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/election-expert-obama-told-a-whopper-of-a-lie-on-voter-fraud/
Trump has said repeatedly that he believes the votes of illegal aliens across the United States are responsible for Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote. The issue flared again, both at a White House press briefing and in a pair of Trump tweets, that announce his call for a formal probe.
Former Federal Elections Commission member Hans von Spakovsky now manages the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation. While not weighing on Trump’s specific assertions, Von Spakovsky told WND and Radio America a thorough federal investigation into voting laws is clearly warranted.
“I think it’s long overdue,” he said. “There’s never been any systematic, organized effort by the federal government to try to improve and check on the election integrity of the United States. I think this is a great idea.”
He said Trump’s call is a radical departure from the Obama administration’s position. “It’s a complete turnaround from the Obama administration, which for the past eight years has done everything it can to try to stop improvements in election integrity: things like Voter ID, things like verifying the citizenship of people who are registered to vote,” von Spakovsky said. “The Obama administration has tried to stop that and has minimized or basically said, ‘There’s no fraud to worry about anywhere.'”
While the media point out that Trump has provided no evidence of his assertions that millions of illegal aliens cast ballots last year, von Spakovsky said the same press corps had no problem with President Obama’s collision with the facts on this same issue earlier in the month.
“President Obama told a whopper of a lie in his last press release, when he said that when he got out of office he would continue to oppose voter ID and other efforts to try to keep people out of the polls and then claimed that we were the only Western democracy that does that, when, in fact, we are one of the only Western democracies that does not require photo ID when you go vote,” he said.
Von Spakovsky said no one knows how much voter fraud occurs, but he said the system is ripe for exploitation for several reasons. Some of the biggest vulnerabilities lie in outdated voter rolls.
“There’s almost three million people who are registered in more than one state,” he said. “How many of those are actually voting in more than one state at the same time, which is, of course, illegal? We don’t know because nobody’s actually checked that out to look at it.”
Also on the rolls are many people who couldn’t possibly show up to vote. “There are almost two million people that are dead who are still on voter rolls across the country,” von Spokovsky said. “How many of those are just an error, and how many are actually still voting because someone’s using their name? Again, we don’t know because there’s never been any systematic check of that.”
He said there is concrete evidence of dead people voting in some locales. “Right before the election, a CBS TV station in Los Angeles actually started checking that. They found several hundred people just in Los Angeles who had been dead for years but had continued to vote in multiple elections,” he said.
The problem, says von Spakovsky, is that proving voter fraud in past elections is very difficult. “It’s very difficult to investigate voter fraud cases. It’s like the cases I just mentioned in California, several hundred people casting ballots after they died. Obviously somebody forged their signature, somebody forged their ballot,” he said. “Trying to find out who that was is going to be pretty difficult."
So what can be done to strengthen election integrity in the future? Von Spakovsky said the first step is to get the most accurate voter rolls possible. “The Justice Department has the ability to file suit because there is a federal law that requires state and local election officials to maintain the accuracy of their voter rolls, to clean them up, to take off people who have died and moved away,” he said. “Many folks haven’t been complying with that law, and the Obama administration knowingly and intentionally refused to enforce that provision."
The next step, he said, is to confirm who is actually eligible to vote. “The Department of Homeland Security needs to start sharing its database on non-citizens in the country with election officials all over the country, so they can check it and find people who shouldn’t be on the rolls because they’re not U.S. citizens,” von Spakovsky said.
He said rooting out ineligible voters should also take place at the time they register. “The other step that has to be taken, because of the fact that illegal aliens are being given driver’s licenses, is that states have to put in requirements that you provide proof of citizenship when you register to vote,” von Spakovsky said.
And he has one more idea.
"Juries are drawn from voter registration lists,” he explained. “One thing that is not done consistently around the country is, when people are excused from jury duty because they’re not a U.S. citizen, that information needs to be given by the local courts to local election officials so they can take those people off the rolls. That’s not being done in many, many states.”
Von Spakovsky would like to see all states adopt provisions requiring voters to present a photo ID at the polls, and he would extend that requirement to absentee voters as well, something he said most states with voter ID laws have not done.
And von Spakovsky said Trump could get the ball rolling on almost all of this without running it by Congress.
“A lot of it can be done administratively through the executive branch, which the Trump administration now controls, particularly the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security,” he said.
In addition to contending there isn’t much of a voter fraud problem in the U.S., Democrats also assert that voter ID and other provisions could disenfranchise the most vulnerable citizens, namely minorities and the poor.
Von Spakovsky said it’s exactly the opposite. “The victims (who have their votes stolen) in these cases often are the poor and minorities. An individual who was convicted of voter fraud up in Try, New York, just a couple of years ago was asked specifically why they were targeting poor minority neighborhoods. He said, ‘They’re the people least likely to notice or complain that their vote’s been stolen,'” von Spakovsky said. He added, “This effort will actually help the poor. It will help racial minorities and ensure their vote doesn’t get stolen.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/election-expert-obama-told-a-whopper-of-a-lie-on-voter-fraud/
5 comments:
Can we move on and ignore this muslim pos?
In BC Canada I worked years ago when the Federal government updated the registered Federal voter's lists. I had to go door to door and have everyone fill out a registration card and they had to show me a driver's license with their current address for our voting area on it matching the household address and confirm with either a birth certificate or passport that they were Canadian and eligible to vote. We actually have many US citizens living hear with Canadian spouses but no citizenship that can't be registered to vote. And we actually have many people with summer homes on our little coastal island only a 15 minute ferry ride from the large Vancouver districts that can't be registered to vote because they live full-time in another district and each voter name with birth date is given a unique no preventing double registrations.
If you fail to register you won't recieve a voting card in the mail, but can still register on voting day. But your voting day registrations requires not only Photo Id with your fulltime resident home address on it but also a current utility bill for that home address with your name on it. These last minute registrations are vetted after the election to ensure no voter has voted twice in two districts. I was paid for each voter registration $.75 and earned $700 to register around 900 of our 3500 permanent fulltime adult voting age residents, and others were assigned to register the other parts of the Island. That was approximately 20 years ago but that voter's list that cost very little to establish is maintained and it is each voter's obligation to update there current registration or they simply don't get to vote because even if you are registered you must show photo ID matching your current permanent address on voting day.
While it will likely cost at least $2-$3 per voter registration to establish a new country wide updated US voter list at today's costs with stricter registration rules and verification for duplicates before the registation is added to the formal final nation wide list, once the formal voter's list is done and completed with unique ID # assigned to each eligible voter that can't be duplicated the US voter fraud problem can be prevented in the future.
There is so much financial government waste already, there is no reason the US can't afford to put housewives like I was at the time I did voter registration to work to establish a new National voter registration list together and vet those registrations before the next elections.
Just saying.........
I am an American National in one of the Union States. I do not have a SSN and cannot legally obtain one according to the Code of Federal Regulations as I am not a Federal or State employee and the Courts have agreed! I do not have a birth certificate or a passport and the State department refuses to give me one even though I was born here, as were my parents and their parents and their parents. I looked up the definition of U.S. citizen throughout the USC and I am not a U.S. Citizen. Registering to vote gives them ownership over you and everything you own. My family has chosen to be self governing under God's law and we do not vote in foreign corporate elections or participate in their voluntary income tax system. Yes we are below poverty level and cannot do a lot of things, like travel freely, as we are considered enemies of the U.S. by definition. Maybe Trump should consider how the U.S. classifies those that are considered sovereign by the Courts. It's unfortunate that Americans have to live in financial hardship because we have read their laws and are in compliance with them as we watch everyone else reap the rewards of operating in ignorance as they have taken the Mark of the beast. It would be nice not to have to be armed to the teeth to protect ourselves from the corporate service providers, the corrupt private corporate cops and the unlawful Court system. President Trump: End the civil war, give us our freedom and re-establish a Constitutional court and a tax system that does not punish you exponentially harder because of the harder you work. This Communist police State we currently live in is completely deplorable to God's people and spiritual and economic growth. The original settlers knew this as communism was the first tried and failed government that was established. Every plank of the Communist manifesto has been implemented in this country to the detriment of hard working Americans like myself who get nothing from the government but have had to choose not to participate in the corporate work force so as to not contribute to the growing delinquent deadbeat U.S. citizens that expect the rest of us to give them everything while they sit on their dead arses and enjoy their lives at the expense of ours. I believe these people are mostly called democrats, Hillary and Sanders supporters, etc. A person is judged by their actions. May God be with you President Trump, give us the freedom to make America great!!!
"like travel freely"
You may not be able to travel freely from state to state, yet you can still travel anywhere you need to via automobile. What else would anyone truly be expecting?
When Trump abolishes a lot of those regulations including nearly the entirety of the Department of Transportation code, that will be a breath of fresh air. But it isn't required as state nationals can still assert all their rights outside the overcrowded busy states.
"I believe these people are mostly called democrats" Yet you in an earlier topic suggested that you look up to Bernie Sanders....Are you brainwashed for some reason and are you from New Jersey!?
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