Will the Democrats Rig The Election?

By Douglas V. Gibbs

The pieces are in place for voter fraud, and such activity by the Democrat Party is not something new. From ACORN, to the dead rising on election day in Chicago to vote, there is a concern that the Democrats will resort to fraud to try to stem the bleeding this coming November.

The journey to enabling them to act in such a way has been a slow and incremental evolution of manipulation and the twisting of voting rules.

In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the “Motor Voter” law. Painted as a way to increase voter registration and participation in Federal elections while safeguarding the integrity of the process and ensuring “accurate and clean” registration rolls, Motor Voter has opened up the elections to increased fraud by making it possible for someone to register under several false names, request an absentee ballot for each, and cast multiple votes with little chance of being detected. John Fund reported in his book Stealing Elections that the number of registered voters in Philadelphia increased by 24% from 1995 to 2004, even as the city’s population declined by 13%.

The 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) required those who register by mail to show an ID when casting their first vote, but this did nothing to address invalid registrations already on the books. Also, many states permit first-time registrants to avoid the ID requirement by turning in their forms directly to election officials. A 2009 study estimated that US registration rolls contain more than 16 million invalid voters.

A recent poll found that 82% of Americans think a photo ID should be required to vote. However, only 25 states ask for any form of identification. A photo ID is required by just seven. The liberal left does not approve of showing ID, siding with those that believe illegal aliens should be able to vote in our elections.

Problem is, the process for locating illegal voters does not exist. And when voter fraud is attempted to be dealt with, leftists refuse to cooperate with state election officials seeking to verify the citizenship status of registered voters, and in a case where local officials in several states tried to remove felons and non-citizens from the registration rolls, lawsuits were filed by leftist groups alleging civil rights violations.

According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office up to 3 percent of the 30,000 individuals called for jury duty from voter registration rolls in one U.S. district court were not U.S. citizens.

The use of absentee ballots and early voting has increased, creating delays in deciding elections – delays that offer additional opportunities for fraud. “No excuses” early voting (voting early without having to provide a reason) is now allowed by 36 states, and often begins as early as 45 days before the actual election. Some experts have determined absentee ballots to be the largest single source of fraudulent voting.

Now, the Democrats are pushing for Universal Registration, which is consistent with the Cloward/Piven strategy of manufactured crisis, which seeks to undermine government institutions by overwhelming them with demands for services. The goal is to achieve a socialist state that will redistribute the nation’s wealth. ACORN was specifically created to execute this strategy.

Learn more at True The Vote

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary