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For Those Who Say There Is NO Voter Fraud, Evidence Is Mounting That You Are Wrong
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COMMENTARY BY
Commission on Election
Integrity convenes its first
meeting on Wednesday, the
issue of voter fraud in American
elections has become even
more contentious and hyperbolic.
against reform is that voter
fraud simply does not occur.
How liberals arrive at this
conclusion, we cannot say.
analyses point to one
incontrovertible conclusion:
that voter fraud is a real and
pressing issue that deserves
serious solutions, and The
Heritage Foundation has
the evidence to prove it.
Foundation is releasing a
new edition of its voter fraud
database. Featuring well over
100 new cases, the database
documents 1,071 instances
of voter fraud spanning 47
states, including 938
criminal convictions.
database separates cases by
type of disposition, allowing
readers to easily distinguish
not only what type of fraud
occurred but the outcome of
the case—criminal convictions,
pre-trial diversion programs,
and other types of adjudication
used in various states and
counties across the United
States.
egregious examples recently
added to the database.
James Madison University
student, pleaded guilty to a
charge stemming from his
false submission of 18 voter
registration forms during the
summer of 2016.
Harrisonburg VOTES, a voter
registration organization
affiliated with the Democratic
Party, and used false birth
dates and Social Security
numbers to register deceased
persons to vote. Spieles was
given prison time for his crime.
hundreds of cases in the
database where individuals
illegally registered dead
people, names out of the
phone book, or others to vote.
before votes could be cast
on behalf of those falsely
registered individuals, there
have been many other cases
in which ballots were
successfully cast in the name
of deceased people.
concluded that 1.8 million
voters remained on the rolls
after their passing—a grave
vulnerability to the integrity of
our elections.
illegal alien living in Baltimore,
was convicted of numerous
charges in 2014. He was
residing illegally in the United
States, collecting Medicare
and Social Security benefits,
and voting in U.S. elections.
the United States illegally since
his temporary work visa
expired in 1969. He was
convicted of child abuse in
2004, was a registered sex
offender, and yet he continued
to vote numerous times despite
being ineligible.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and he was
sentenced to three months’
imprisonment, one year’s
supervised release, and was
ordered to pay $48,928 in
restitution.
database included a dozen
cases of illegal voting by
noncitizens. This is a particularly
important issue to address, as
each ballot cast by a noncitizen
effectively nullifies the ballot of
an eligible voter, effectively
disenfranchising American
citizens.
pleaded guilty (Case No. 12 CR 005249)
to illegal voting in 2013. She had registered
to vote, requested absentee ballots, and
submitted those ballots under two names—
Debbie Tingler and Deborah Tingler.
120 days’ imprisonment, and she was
ordered to pay a $200 fine and court costs.
There are dozens of cases in the database
where individuals voted multiple times in
the same election.
policies and procedures in place to detect
and deter fraud—and prosecutors seldom
prioritize these cases—it is likely that far
more double voters, absentee-ballot
fraudsters, and ineligible voters get away
scot-free than are ever brought to justice.
database is by no means comprehensive,
but its 1,071 proven instances of fraud,
which took place across all manner of
elections and in nearly every state,
highlight the importance—and the urgency—
of the work of the Election Integrity
Commission.
analysis aimed at determining, among other
things, whether the nation’s voter registration
records are accurate or riddled with errors.
includes Heritage’s own Hans von Spakovsky,
senior legal fellow and one of the nation’s foremost
election law experts—will seek to gather this
information.
public voter records have been met with
hyperbolic rhetoric and stonewalling in some states.
as liberals say, and if state protections against it
are as robust as we are told, why withhold data
that would prove these claims?
fact, say the opposite.
this newest release of The Heritage Foundation’s
voter fraud database, the evidence is clear and
incontrovertible: Voter fraud is real, and we
ignore it at our own peril.