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Over 60,000 registered to vote in both California and Nevada

Yesterday Election Integrity Project CA, along with ten congressional candidates filed a lawsuit demanding an end to fraud and corruption at the polls.  Today they issued a report showing 60,000 people are registered to vote in both California and Nevada—totally illegal.  Worse a number of those folks VOTED in both States.

“More than 60,000 people are currently registered to vote in both California and Nevada, according to Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa). Thousands were mailed ballots by both states for the November 2020 election and more than 3,500 appear to have voted unlawfully in that election.”

What is mystifying is that the California Republican party is responsible to 5 million Republicans and 40 million Californians to fight for honest elections.  Where is their leadership?  Why did it take a private organization to do what the Republican Party is mandated to do?  Leaders Lead—where is the CRP leadership on honest elections?

Over 60,000 registered to vote in both California and Nevada

Nonpartisan watchdog claims thousands voted where they no longer reside and 251 voted in both states in November 2020.

Linda Paine, EIPCa, 1/6/21  www.eip-ca.com

Santa Clarita, Calif. – More than 60,000 people are currently registered to vote in both California and Nevada, according to Election Integrity Project California (EIPCa). Thousands were mailed ballots by both states for the November 2020 election and more than 3,500 appear to have voted unlawfully in that election.

The findings, based on EIPCa’s analysis of California’s official statewide voter database of November 25, 2020 and Nevada’s statewide database of November 24, 2020, matched registrants on first name, middle name (where available), last name and date of birth. This exposed 60,398 high-confidence matches. Of these, 22,810 additionally share the same phone number and/or their California mailing address matches their Nevada registration address. The remaining matches have exceptionally rare names in both states and are therefore unlikely to be coincidences. Because common names are not included in the analysis, EIPCa’s numbers are conservative.

EIPCa’s analysis found 3,544 who– once confirmed as registered in both states– may have voted unlawfully in the November 2020 election. These votes occurred outside the 30-day grace period for voters who move between states:

  • 2,697 voted unlawfully in Nevada despite being subsequently registered to vote in California. The later registration date indicates these voters now reside in California, but they voted in Nevada.
     
  • 596 voted unlawfully in California despite being subsequently registered to vote in Nevada.
     
  •  251 voted in BOTH states. Of these, 141 currently reside in Nevada and 110 reside in California.
     

These findings will be submitted to the California and Nevada Secretaries of State and appropriate U.S. Attorneys. Federal law enforcement will also be alerted.

“Massive numbers of cross-state registrations underscore the chronic voter list maintenance problems plaguing our country, the need to share this data across states, and the dire consequences for election integrity,” said EIPCa President Linda Paine. “We call on the legal system to investigate our findings and prosecute those who voted unlawfully- a felony in federal elections.”

EIPCa is a nonpartisan IRC 501(c)(3) charity. Contributions are tax-deductible.

Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls

Though this happened in February, the legacy media has not covered the story.  The bigger question is how many of the ineligible voters actually voted?  And, will they be indicted for vote fraud?

“Under the agreement, Los Angeles had to send 1.6 million address confirmation notices to voters listed “inactive” on its voter rolls. According to the National Voter Registration Act — which requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls — states and counties must remove from their voting rolls voters who do not respond to such mailers and do not vote in the next two federal elections.

In its most recent progress report for complying with the settlement, Los Angeles told Judicial Watch it had removed a total of 1.2 million ineligible voters from its rolls. Last year, the county revealed that 634,000 of its inactive voters hadn’t voted in the past 10 years.

Also, did any of the 1.2 million vote by absentee—if so, who actually voted their ballots.  Think California has honest elections?

Lawsuit Forces Los Angeles County To Remove 1.2 Million Ineligible Voters From Rolls

BY: VICTORIA MARSHALL, The Federalist,  2/27/23  https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/27/lawsuit-forces-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-2-million-ineligible-voters-from-rolls/

Los Angeles County, California confirmed it had removed 1.2 million ineligible voters from its rolls thanks to a settlement with the conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch, the group announced Friday. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in 2017 on behalf of itself and four registered voters in Los Angeles County. Election Integrity Project California, Inc., another public interest group, was also a part of the lawsuit.

Under the agreement, Los Angeles had to send 1.6 million address confirmation notices to voters listed “inactive” on its voter rolls. According to the National Voter Registration Act — which requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls — states and counties must remove from their voting rolls voters who do not respond to such mailers and do not vote in the next two federal elections.

In its most recent progress report for complying with the settlement, Los Angeles told Judicial Watch it had removed a total of 1.2 million ineligible voters from its rolls. Last year, the county revealed that 634,000 of its inactive voters hadn’t voted in the past 10 years.

Back in 2017 when Judicial Watch first filed its lawsuit, it argued Los Angeles County had more registered voters than residents eligible to register and the “highest number of inactive registrations of any single county in the country.” According to data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission at that time, voter registration for the county was 112 percent of its adult citizen population.

“This long overdue voter roll clean-up of 1.2 million registrations in Los Angeles County is a historic victory and means California elections are less at risk for fraud,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement. “Building on this success, Judicial Watch will continue its lawsuits and activism to clean up voter rolls and to promote and protect cleaner elections.”

This isn’t the first lawsuit of its kind by Judicial Watch. New York City recently removed 441,083 ineligible voters from its voter rolls after reaching a settlement with the conservative advocacy group. North Carolina also removed more than 430,000 ineligible registrants from its rolls due to a similar lawsuit, and Kentucky agreed to do the same in response to a lawsuit.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation is another good government group that has filed lawsuits to compel states including Michigan and Pennsylvania to clean their voter rolls to guard against potential election fraud.

Massive Voter Roll Clean Up in LA!

Why did it take a lawsuit to get the L.A. Registrar of Voters to do his job?  Of course, this is the same guy who years ago, after a Republican won the governorship in the State of Washington, “found” ballot boxes in a river—and then the Democrat became Governor.

“Good news for voters and elections in California. Los Angeles County removed 1,207,613 ineligible voters from its rolls since last year under the terms of a settlement agreement in a federal lawsuit we filed in 2017 (Judical Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)).

We sued on behalf of four lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County and the Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public interest group involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls.”

It only took six years and THREE elections to start the process of making the voting rolls honest!  Think our elections are fair and honest?

Massive Voter Roll Clean Up in LA!

LA County Removes 1.2 million Ineligible Voters in Judicial Watch Lawsuit Settlement

Judicial Watch, 3/4/23 

Good news for voters and elections in California. Los Angeles County removed 1,207,613 ineligible voters from its rolls since last year under the terms of a settlement agreement in a federal lawsuit we filed in 2017 (Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. v. Dean C. Logan, et al. (No. 2:17-cv-08948)).

We sued on behalf of four lawfully registered voters in Los Angeles County and the Election Integrity Project California, Inc., a public interest group involved in monitoring California’s voter rolls.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Los Angeles County sent almost 1.6 million address confirmation notices in 2019 to voters listed as “inactive” on its voter rolls. Under the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), voters who do not respond to the notices and who do not vote in the following two federal elections must be removed from the voter rolls. The settlement also required an update to the state’s online NVRA manual to make it clear that ineligible names must be removed and to notify each California county that they are obliged to do this.

In the most recent of a series of progress reports to us, Los Angeles County confirmed that 1,207,613 ineligible and inactive voters were recently removed from the rolls. Los Angeles County confirmed last year that more than 634,000 of its inactive voters hadn’t voted in at least 10 years.

We previously detailed that Los Angeles County had allowed more than 20% of its registered voters to become inactive without removing them from the voter list.

This long overdue voter roll clean-up is a historic victory and means California elections are less at risk for fraud. Building on this success, we will continue our lawsuits and activism to clean up voter rolls and to promote and protect cleaner elections.

We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. We have assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who have stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements.

We recently settled a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and promised to take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter registration lists.

Kentucky also removed hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.

In February 2022, we settled a voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties after North Carolina removed over 430,000 inactive registrations from its voter rolls.

In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor of our challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme” congressional gerrymander.

In May 2022, we sued Illinois on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered Illinois voters to stop state election officials from extending Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.

Robert Popper, Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads our election law program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements in dozens of states.

Judicial Watch Sues DHS for Records on Election Censorship

We’re back in court in our continuing quest to unearth the federal government’s election-related censorship. The more we learn, the more concerning it becomes.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records of communication related to the work of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) that could detail coordinated censorship activities (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:23-cv-00384)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), a component of the Department of Homeland Security, failed to comply with an October 27, 2022, FOIA request for:

  • All emails, direct messages, task management alerts, or other records of communication related to the work of the Election Integrity Partnership sent via the Atlassian Jira platform between any official or employee of the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency and any member, officer, employee, or representative of any of the following:
  • The Election Integrity Partnership
  • The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public
  • Stanford University’s Internet Observatory
  • The Center for Internet Security
  • The Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center
  • The National Association of Secretaries of State
  • The National Association of State Election Directors
  • Graphika
  • The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Laboratory
  • Any social media company
  • All memoranda of understanding, guidelines, or similar records related to the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency’s use of the Atlassian Jira platform for work related to the Election Integrity Partnership.

Based on representations from the Election Integrity Partnership (see here and here), the federal government, social media companies, the EIP, the Center for Internet Security (a non-profit organization funded partly by DHS and the Defense Department) and numerous other leftist groups communicated privately via the Atlassian software platform called Jira.

In a February 8, 2023, hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) revealed informationabout federal agencies, social media companies, nonprofits and other organizations communicating “their version of misinformation using Jira.” Luna pointed out to Yoel Roth, then-Twitter’s head of trust and safety who helped suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story:

On this chart, I want to annotate that the Department of Homeland Security, which has a following branches, cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency, also known as CISA Countering Foreign Intelligence Task Force … [were] used against the American people. The Election Partnership Institute or Election Integrity Partnership, EIP, which includes the following, Stanford Internet Observatory, University of Washington Center for Informed Public, Graphika and Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. And potentially according to what we found on the final report by EIP, the DNC, the Center for Internet Security, CISA- a nonprofit funded by DHS, the National Association of Secretaries of State, also known as NASS and the National Association of State Election Directors, NASED.

And in this case, because there are other social media companies involved, Twitter, what do all of these groups though, have in common? And I’m going to refresh your memory. They were all communicating on a private cloud server known as Jira. Now, the screenshot behind screenshot behind me, which is an example of one of thousands shows on November 3rd, 2020, that you, Mr. Roth, a Twitter employee, were exchanging communications on Jira, a private cloud server with CISA, NASS, NASED, and Alex Stamos, who now works at Stanford and is a former security of security officer at Facebook to remove a posting. Do you now remember communicating on a private cloud server to remove a posting? Yes or no?

San Joaquin Sheriff Discloses Massive Voter Roll Anomalies in California County

This may be one of the biggest election scandals in the State.  Yet, it had been known for years.  The GOP Chair of San Joaquin County, Dwight Williams has done and said nothing about this.  The CRP Chair, Jessica Patterson, even with the evidence, acts like Joe Biden and says we have “fair and honest elections.  Randy Berholtz, Chair of the CRP Election Integrity Committee has few meetings and no recommendations for lawsuits to stop these corrupt voting rolls and the absentee ballots sent out to the dead and those living for years in other States.

“Towards the end of the press conference, before taking questions from the media, Captain Hardy addresses some discrepancies in the voter rolls they discovered during their investigation:

  • 93 people registered w/ birthdate of 1850
  • 232 registered at local prisons
  • 4,144 voters registered over the age of 90 (there’s only 10.3k residents over 80 in that county…this number would drop off significantly at 90)
  • 125 registered to a non-profit, NGO or business
  • ~300 voters with no first name
  • 110 potential double voters – same name, DOB, and address but different Voter ID numbers
  • people registered at various homeless shelters  https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1627760425839337472?s=20
  • and one voter registered named… “Jesus Christ” 
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  • Oh, and this does not count the DEAD voters getting absentee ballots in the County.

Why did it take a local sheriff, investigation the illegal actions of a Democrat Lodi city councilman to discover this?  For years we have been talking about all these problems—yet the California Republican Party has approved of these corrupt actions and told the public, “nothing to see here.”  Until people in power like Williams, Patterson and Berholtz due their duty, it will be impossible to have an honest government.  You would think that the GOP Chair of the County, Dwight Williams, would be demanding the CRP sue to fix the voting rolls.  But he has been as silent as a church mouse.  Oh, all three want to be elected as officers of the CRP for the “great” job they have done.

San Joaquin Sheriff Discloses Massive Voter Roll Anomalies in California County

By Brian Lupo, The Gateway Pundit,  2/20/23  

Last week, The Gateway Pundit reported on a press conference about the arrest of a Lodi city councilmember named Shakir Khan.  The San Joaquin Sheriff discovered the election crimes while serving a search warrant for non-election related findings regarding Khan’s businesses in the city.

KCRA reported:

[Khan] is accused of stashing 41 ballots at his home. Investigators also say he registered 23 people to vote at his home and that his email and phone number were used to register 47 others. Body camera footage showed voters telling detectives how Khan allegedly pressured them to vote for him and how he allegedly falsified voter registration documents.

Towards the end of the press conference, before taking questions from the media, Captain Hardy addresses some discrepancies in the voter rolls they discovered during their investigation:

  • 93 people registered w/ birthdate of 1850
  • 232 registered at local prisons
  • 4,144 voters registered over the age of 90 (there’s only 10.3k residents over 80 in that county…this number would drop off significantly at 90)
  • 125 registered to a non-profit, NGO or business
  • ~300 voters with no first name
  • 110 potential double voters – same name, DOB, and address but different Voter ID numbers
  • people registered at various homeless shelters  https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1627760425839337472?s=20
  • and one voter registered named… “Jesus Christ”

Two of these issues have been scrutinized when found in other jurisdictions across the country:  the 1850 birthdate (various other birthdates used) and the 90+ voter population.

This is the San Joaquin Sheriff conducting this investigation and disclosing this information to the public, so if there were an explanation for the 1850 birthdate relating to privacy protection, protected individuals, etc., it is likely they would have found this during their investigation.  They did claim at the end they are working with the local registrar of voters.

As for the 90+ population, San Joaquin, according to the 2020 census, there are 751,615 people living in San Joaquin.  In the 2010 Census, out of 308M Americans, 1.9M were over 90, or .6% of the population.  Using that average for San Joaquin, it would mean there are approximately 4500 90+ citizens in the county.  This is on track with the 4,144 registered to vote, however, this is assuming a near 100% registration rate among the age group.  It also means that all of those individuals are eligible to vote.

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman discovered massive fraud and deception involving nursing home residents who are physically incapable of casting ballots but managed to cast them anyways in the 2020 election.

Many concerned Americans have taken these types of voter roll analysis into their own hands and made incredible discoveries similar to the ones disclosed above.  California, however, only releases its voter rolls to candidates and political parties.  Disclosing the data to outsiders can lead to prosecution.

ADAMS: When Will California Realize Its Vote By Mail System Is A Total Disaster?

California has not had an honest election in more than a decade.  Vote by Mail has allowed dead people to vote.  It has allowed people who left California years ago to vote.  Most Counties refuse to abide by the law and allow observers—now they even tear up you ballot and in secret “re-voter it”. You have no idea if you ballot got accounted and if so, counted accurately.

“An analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows over 226,000 mail ballots were rejected by election officials. That’s a quarter million citizens who thought their ballot would count, but it didn’t.

The number one reason for rejection was the ballot arrived too late. That’s what happens when you put the post office in charge. The United States Postal Service has a 94% success rate for timely delivery of political mail.

Put another way, they aspire for only 6% failure, 6% of voters disenfranchised.

Other reasons the data show rejection include the voter forgot to sign the ballot. This is a simple error that is easily caught and fixed in person at a polling place.”

In Alameda County they actually arrest citizens for wanting to observe the count.  They are arrested, go to jail for a day or two, then NO charges are pressed.  The goal has been achieved—citizens are not allowed to watch the remaking of ballots or the disqualification of ballots.  Sound like a Putin election, but held in Alameda County.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: When Will California Realize Its Vote By Mail System Is A Total Disaster?

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CHRISTIAN ADAMS, Daily Caller,  2/4/23 

The California Secretary of State just issued data that show the 2022 election was a mess.

Why? Because of vote by mail.

Indeed, this was California’s first election that relied on the United States Postal Service to get the mission accomplished. In September of 2021, Sacramento passed new legislation that said everyone registered to vote — dead or alive — is automatically sent a ballot in the mail, every election. 

 That might sound good, but the new data prove that mass vote by mail should have remained a pandemic experiment.

An analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows over 226,000 mail ballots were rejected by election officials. That’s a quarter million citizens who thought their ballot would count, but it didn’t.

The number one reason for rejection was the ballot arrived too late. That’s what happens when you put the post office in charge. The United States Postal Service has a 94% success rate for timely delivery of political mail.

Put another way, they aspire for only 6% failure, 6% of voters disenfranchised.

Other reasons the data show rejection include the voter forgot to sign the ballot. This is a simple error that is easily caught and fixed in person at a polling place.

Automatic vote by mail elections also need near-perfect voter rolls. Otherwise, deceased registrants are mailed ballots and people registered more than once are mailed multiple ballots.

This massive failure of California’s automatic vote by mail election process shouldn’t be a surprise. It failed everywhere it was tried in 2020. According to federal data, in 2020, over 560,000 mail ballots were rejected. Over half a million citizens did not get to have their voice heard because of vote by mail.

Unfortunately, many states, like California, have now passed laws institutionalizing these pandemic mail voting policies. Along with California, seven other states have enacted the automatic mailing of ballots to every registered voter.

These states have essentially put the U.S. Post Office in charge of their elections. The post office excels at one thing – delivering me my neighbor’s mail.  We shouldn’t be trusting them with electing our leaders.

States need to add safeguards to its vote by mail system.

Lawmakers should change their laws to require mail ballots be accompanied with a driver’s license, voter registration number or social security number. Signature matching is an inefficient and inconsistent system.

Finally, states must not allow vote by mail to cause delay in election results. Some states allow the counting of mail ballots that arrive up to fourteen days after Election Day.

It’s supposed to be Election Day, not Election Week. All 50 states should require all ballots to arrive by Election Day.

Top election officials and lawmakers need to step up and enact these common sense reforms before the 2024 elections.

J. Christian Adams is the President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a former Justice Department attorney, and current commissioner on the United States Commission for Civil Rights.

Florida/Pennsylvania GOP Big Winners in Registration/California GOP Biggest LOSER in Voter Registration

In Florida, the Republican Party is registering NINE GOP’ers for every ONE Democrat.

In Pennsylvania this is the result of a registration effort: “The data show that while Democrats have gained about 21,000 former Republican voters and almost 27,000 other voters, the Republicans have gained about 57,000 former Democratic voters and almost 30,000 other voters in 2022.

That bodes well for the Grand Old Party, continuing a long-running trend.

Last year, about 30,000 Republicans switched to Democrat and 14,000 other voters, compared to 37,000 Democrats switching to the Republicans along with 18,000 other voters. Republicans have gained more Democratic voters than Democrats have gained Republicans since 2008, according to the oldest data available.”

From the Secretary of State web site:  The percentage of voters registered with the Democratic Party increased from 43.75% to 46.89%. • The percentage of voters registered with the Republican Party decreased from 24.50% to 23.88%, this is for 2018 vs. 2022.  All of this under the leadership of Jessica Patterson who does not believe in voter registration.  This explains why Pennsylvania has the chance of electing a Republican Senator and our candidate does not have money for any TV ads.

September 9, 2022 10,261,998 46.89% 5,225,578 23.88%

September 7, 2018 8,349,565 43.75% 4,676,247 24.50%

September 3, 2010 7,531,986 44.32% 5,257,669 30.94%

So while the Pennsylvania GOP has out numbered the registration of Democrats since 2008, the California Republican Party now has 32,000 FEWER Republicans and the Democrats have 2,730,000 MORE registrants.  Even in the last four years the CRP has gained 550,000 new GOP’ers while the Democrats  gained 1.92 million, almost four times as much.

Democrats switching voter registrations to GOP in Pennsylvania

Democrats have gained about 21,000 former Republican voters, while the Republicans have gained about 57,000 former Democrats.

By Anthony Hennen, Center Square,   11/2/22

Pennsylvania’s registered voter numbers are up and Democrats hold an advantage, but Republicans are gaining former Democrats.

Early voting is underway and Election Day is Tuesday.

As of Monday, the commonwealth had 8.87 million registered voters, according to the Department of State. Slightly more than 4 million voters registered as Democrats, almost 3.5 million voters are Republican, and 954,000 voters are independent. Another 374,000 voters are registered with a third party.

While the registered numbers give Democrats a significant lead, not all registered voters will vote in the election, and Republicans have made some gains at the expense of Democratic registrations.

The data show that while Democrats have gained about 21,000 former Republican voters and almost 27,000 other voters, the Republicans have gained about 57,000 former Democratic voters and almost 30,000 other voters in 2022.

That bodes well for the Grand Old Party, continuing a long-running trend.

Last year, about 30,000 Republicans switched to Democrat and 14,000 other voters, compared to 37,000 Democrats switching to the Republicans along with 18,000 other voters. Republicans have gained more Democratic voters than Democrats have gained Republicans since 2008, according to the oldest data available.

Registered numbers may inflate how many voters are engaged with the electoral process. The Department of State also noted that Democrats have 3.6 million active voters and about 400,000 inactive voters, while Republicans have 3.25 million active voters and about 240,000 inactive voters, a smaller gap than registered numbers alone.

Though turning out the party base to vote will matter to decide whether Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro or Republican Doug Mastriano becomes governor, and whether Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman or Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz becomes U.S. Senator, split-ticket voting and independent voters can sway the outcome. If split-ticket voters emerge, polls suggest Shapiro and Oz benefit.

Statewide races in Pennsylvania remain competitive and neither party dominates across the commonwealth, compared to neighboring states like perennial tossup Ohio, which has become Republican dominated. If trends continue, Republicans could see better odds.

The ONLY Issue in the 2022 Election is Voter Fraud?

Contrary to the views of the Secretary of State, California Democrat Party and California Republican Party Chair Jessica Patterson, California does not have honest elections.  If it did why are the counties refusing to allow an audit of the Dominion voting System?  If there was no problem, they should be eager to prove it.

Why is there a list of 440,000 dead people and people that have moved out of State—yet still get ballots?

If we had an honest election why has the Secretary of State refused to allow an audit to get illegal aliens off the voting rolls—even after the DMV admitted they registered 140,000 illegally—did those names get off the voting rolls.

While the economy, crime, inflation, food and gas prices are top issues, who cares if you know dead people get a ballot, criminals from foreign countries get ballots and the official Democrat and Republican Parties are working together to continue this fraud?

The ONLY Issue in the 2022 Election is Voter Fraud

By Joan Swirsky, 10/8/22 

A friend recently reminded me of an article I had written on October 5, 2020, just before the presidential election that found all TV networks reporting that President Donald Trump was crushing Joe Biden across the board—including in the all-important battleground states—and then that coverage mysteriously stopped cold, disappeared for over three hours, and reappeared to report that the exact opposite was true, that Joe Biden had magically become the Crusher in Chief, ultimately “winning” the 2020 election.

“Remember the title of your article?” my friend asked me. In fact, I did, since it was the only time in decades of writing that I had capitalized a word in the title. It read like this:

The ONLY Issue in the 2020 Election is Voter Fraud.

Well, it’s election time again, and sure enough the same thing is true. And after viewing Dinesh D’Souza’s jaw-dropping “2000 Mules,” which documents the massive fraud that indeed took place in 2020, and after reading dozens of reports about audits that were done in the battleground states and others which uncovered overwhelming voter fraud, including thousands of dead voters, it appears that voter fraud is once again the ONLY issue of concern. Great concern.

The reality factor

When you peel back all the layers of the onion of a human being’s psychology, our species is really not that complicated. Whether man or woman, black or white, rich or poor, from whatever background, religion, or culture, we all have similar if not identical needs.

In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow introduced the concept of a Hierarchy of Needs, which hasn’t changed much since then. They include:

Physiological needs that are vital to survival:

·         Food

·         Water

·         Breathing

·         Homeostasis

·         Shelter

·         Clothing

·         Reproduction

Security and Safety Needs

·         Financial security

·         Health and wellness

·         Safety

·         Finding a job

·         Health insurance and health care

Social needs

·         Friendships

·         Romantic attachments

·         Family relationships

·         Social groups

·         Community groups

·         Churches and religious organizations

Yes, these are needs common to everyone, and yet in the past two years, under the Biden regime, every single one of them has been threatened if not destroyed.

When you destroy basic needs

With the stupefying mismanagement of our national budget—and in spite of the booming economy and high employment he inherited— the Biden inflation factor didn’t take long to set in, followed in short order by the Biden Recession. There went the security most Americans felt in buying food and gas and paying rent. Even reproduction is down as younger people hoping to move out of their parent’s basement have hunkered down for an indefinite stay.

At the same time, there went the country’s security and safety needs. With four-million illegal aliens swarming over Biden’s open southern border, including drug cartels with so much Fentanyl that the deaths of young people have already increased exponentially, and thugs and criminals being bused and flown in the middle of the night to cities and suburbs throughout our country, even a walk in the park or a trip to the supermarket has become a looming threat.

And with liberal legislators all over the country ignoring the massive criminality of thuggish groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, and innocent pedestrians being assaulted—sometimes fatally—and the passing of no-bail laws that put rapists and muggers and even murderers back on the street 20 minutes after they are so-called “booked,” life in America has become a daily and nightly menace.

Biden destroyed our energy independence

And let’s not forget Biden’s pathetic reliance on foreign oil, going hat in hand literally begging for the resources to keep us going, while only two years ago, President Trump had achieved one-hundred percent energy independence—to last us 500 years!

Then there is the war in Ukraine and the billions (going on trillions) we have sent to what is now widely recognized at The Money-Laundering Capital of the World!

A normal person would look at the bleak state of our union and conclude that the powers-that-be—those running the show from the Oval Office—are so woefully inept, have such patronizing contempt for We the People, and such a deep loathing for America the Beautiful, that it would seem to be a given that every Democrat candidate, including those running for the U.S. Senator or the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, November 8, would lose in a landslide.

However…

Over the past many decades—with the advent of electronic voting machines and mail-in ballots—American elections have not been predictable. Why? Because the only thing Democrats have cared about for the past hundred years is winning elections with the goal of inflicting their strangulating socialist/communist and now Islamist style of government on the American people.

Why don’t they want Trump to run again?

In the past two years in particular, they’ve been maniacally obsessed with insuring that President Trump is unable to run again for POTUS, even if the perpetual sore losers of the left have to buy the guns they say they hate to wage a Civil War!

Why? Because citizen-cum President Trump won the 2016 election by exposing:

·         “The Swamp’s” systemic depravity, corruption, and treason.

·         The Democrats’ America-Last policies.

·         The leftist bias of the bought-and-paid-for Media Whores.

·         The Democrat racism that has kept blacks with broken families, mal-educated, imprisoned, and impoverished for decades on end.

·         The craven deals that made our country dependent on foreign oil.

·         The Obama-Biden regimes’ weaponizing of the FBI, CIA, and the FISA Court, et al.

·         The crooked money “arrangements” enjoyed by higher-ups like former VP Joe Biden in securing multimillion-and-billion-dollar windfalls for himself, his son Hunter, and his brother James. Ukraine, anyone? China, anyone?

·         The horrible treaties, including the Iran deal, NAFTA, NATO, et al, that benefitted foreign countries significantly more than the U.S.

·         The interest of the “anti-war” Democrats in keeping wars going endlessly (always follow the money).

·         This is the very very short list.

The method to their madness

Even diehard leftist partisans acknowledge that Democrats have stolen elections over the past many decades by enlisting the votes of illegal aliens, absentee voters who simply don’t exist, cartoon characters, and of course dead voters.

Then there is Ballot Harvesting, a scheme exclusively used by Democrats to, ahem, win elections. According to California political commentator Stephan Frank, anyone—campaign workers, minors, illegals, et al—go door to door to “help” people fill out ballots that strangely favor Democrats and refuse to collect ballots from anyone they suspect of voting the “wrong” way. They even pay them to vote the “right way.”

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, currently 26 states allow this fraudulence, a practice that was aggressively and somewhat successfully challenged by Tom Fitton of electionintegrity@judicialwatch.org.

Not to omit ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), in operation since 1970. But the group was exposed for its criminal activities in 2009 by James O’Keefe, founder of The Veritas Project, resulting in multiple convictions for massive voter fraud in several states, and it closed its doors in 2010, although it is believed that splinter groups formed and are active to this day.

Let me count the ways voter fraud happened

The following is a tiny example of the vote-rigging methods used exclusively by Democrats going into the 2020 election:

·         Project Veritas Exposes Ballot Harvesting Scheme with Alleged Ties to Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.),

·         In a Florida primarymore than 35,000 mail-in ballots rejected, and over 100,000 ballots rejected in California.

·         Here’s a beauty from Doug Ross@JournalIn PennsylvaniaMichiganMinnesota, and WisconsinDemocrat activists dressed in black robes have fundamentally rewritten state election laws. Among them are: Mail-in ballots can be received up to seven days after the election and still be counted. These ballots can be missing postmarks and still be counted. The signature on the ballot doesn’t even have to match with that of the registered voter. As a bonus, they have banned the Green Party from the ballot to prevent erosion of the Biden vote.

·         More than 534,000 mail ballots were rejected during primaries across 23 states in 2020 — nearly a quarter in key battlegrounds for the fall (The Washington Post).

·         In NY, Democrats signed a law giving driver’s licenses to the state’s 725,000 illegal aliens, granting them the ability to vote.

·         FBI Found Discarded Military Mail-in Ballots Cast for Trump.

·         Election Watchdog Found 350,000 Dead Registrants on Voter Rolls in 42 States.

·         Again, California’s Stephan Frank: Trump IS Right: Post Office Is Discarding, Hiding Absentee Ballots! (Well, whaddaya know—Joe Biden received the endorsement of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union!).

An obvious voter fraud source: dead voters still on the rolls

But Democrats don’t stop! This past August, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s tried to dismiss the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s (PILF) lawsuit for her failure to remove 25,975 dead registrants from the state’s voter rolls.

According to PILF:

·         23,663 registrants have been dead for five years or more

·         17,479 registrants have been dead for at least a decade

·         3,956 registrants have been dead for at least 20 years

In August, the United States Western District Court of Michigan

denied Benson’s attempt.

In July, a hearing on the Maricopa, Arizona, 2020 election audit revealed the following:

·         Maricopa County refused to provide their computer’s router, claiming that its data would make private data available. In fact, routers don’t keep such information.

·         Maricopa claimed to have provided images of the mail-in envelopes. In fact, they did not.

·         74,243 ballots that were received and included in the 2020 Election in Maricopa County show no record that they were ever mailed out.

·         11,326 people voted in the election who did not appear on the voter rolls on Nov 7th.

·         3,981 people voted after registering after the October 15, 2020, deadline.

·         On and on and on.

And in Georgia…

In addition, a recent Georgia audit of the 2020 election revealed:

·         A Non-Profit group, called True the Vote provided evidence that as many as 242 voting activists flooded as many as 5,500 drop boxes with fraudulent ballots in the middle of the night.

·         Videos also showed that the activists wore blue rubber gloves when depositing the ballots into the drop boxes. This practice was begun when investigations, in Arizona, over the same crime of ballot harvesting were, successfully, prosecuted, based on fingerprints on the ballots.

Partners in crime

According to a Google whistleblower in Allum Bokhari’s book, #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, when voters find out what Big Tech companies have done to meddle in the upcoming election, they’ll be rightly furious at the attempts of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other tech companies to sway the election in Biden’s favor.

In addition, Democrats Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi are closely aligned with groups like Majority Forward (created in 2015) that funnel millions in secret cash into 2020 elections, according to FreeBeacon.com.

Linda Goudsmit, author of The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with ‘Kindness’, sees the upcoming midterms as yet another “sinister leftist, Islamist, globalist attack on America.” “We are only weeks away from the election,” she said, and “the enemies of America are desperate” and behaving like cornered animals poised for attack. Their survival is at stake because if Republicans take the Congress, they will start the process that President Trump began of taking down the Deep State and exposing them all.

Voter fraud is all the Democrats have left – everything else has failed

It must be incomprehensible to all those liberals/leftists/progressives—with all their prestigious college degrees, high IQs, impeccable credentials, fancy job titles, and positions in the highest reaches of the American government—that every ploy they used against President Trump, every arch machination, every exquisitely formulated plan of action, all resulted in crashing failures, and that everything they’ve done to try to legitimize Joe Biden and enact his deeply anti-American agenda has resulted in equally colossal failures.

But still, there remains ONLY one overriding issue in the 2022 midterm elections, and that issue is Democrat Voter Fraud!

Our Republican and Conservative leaders have had two years to right the egregious wrong of the 2020 election. If that sordid history repeats itself, they only have themselves to blame!

Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.comand she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.

Court Allows Dead People to Vote in Arizona—Elections Totally Corrupt

You can’t make this up.  The Arizona legislature passed a bill demanding that ballots not go to KNOWN dead people and those KNOWN to have moved to other States.  These people, dead and alive, received a ballot in 2020.  Evidence proves several hundred thousand illegal votes in that election.

In Arizona, Democrats want the4 dead to get ballots.  In Michigan, Democrats want the dead to get ballots.  In California both the Democrats and the California Republican Party want the dead to get ballots (if the CRP did not want the dead to get ballots why haven’t they sued to stop this corrupt practice, as the GOP has done in numerous other States?)

A Clinton-appointed federal Judge blocked a new Arizona election integrity law from being enforced in the upcoming 2022 General Election.

HB2247 is meant to clean the voter rolls and remove registrants who are registered in another state and no longer live in Arizona. The new law would add a statement on voter registration forms, specifying that if a registrant permanently moves to another state after registering in this state, their registration will be canceled.

It would also direct the county recorder to cancel a voter registration when they confirm that the registered person is dead, that the person is not an Arizona resident or resident of that County, or that they are not a citizen of the United States.”

Bottom Line;  A Federal Judge demands a corrupt election—just like in any dictatorship.  The judge needs to be Impeached.

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Bars Arizona Officials From Enforcing New Law To Remove Dead Voters, Nonresidents, And Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls

By Jordan Conradson, The Gateway Pundit,  9/10/22 

A Clinton-appointed federal Judge blocked a new Arizona election integrity law from being enforced in the upcoming 2022 General Election.

HB2247 is meant to clean the voter rolls and remove registrants who are registered in another state and no longer live in Arizona. The new law would add a statement on voter registration forms, specifying that if a registrant permanently moves to another state after registering in this state, their registration will be canceled.

It would also direct the county recorder to cancel a voter registration when they confirm that the registered person is dead, that the person is not an Arizona resident or resident of that County, or that they are not a citizen of the United States.

The Gateway Pundit previously discovered during our investigation into the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) that the largest U.S. Counties removed only ZERO to TWO ineligible voters from their voter rolls in the last four years.

ERIC, initially funded by the Soros Open Society Foundation, is essentially a left-wing voter registration drive disguised as a voter roll clean-up system and is used in Arizona and 30 other states.

State Rep. Jake Hoffman, the bill’s main sponsor, told The Gateway Pundit, “Democrats have stooped to a new level of shamefulness and depravity with their latest round of lies about Arizona’s common sense laws to ensure that our elections are accessible, secure, and trustworthy.”

Epoch Times reported,

Arizona officials cannot enforce a new election bill in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a federal judge.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and other officials shall not “take any action to implement or enforce H.B. 2243 in a manner that would remove any voter’s eligibility to vote in the 2022 general election or disqualify any otherwise-valid ballot on the basis of H.B. 2243,” U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in the Sept. 8 order.

The officials and the coalition, which sued over the bill in August, agreed that “the provisions of H.B. 2243 should not operate in a manner that would prevent any voter from (1) voting in the upcoming November 2022 general election or (2) having their vote be counted.” Hobbs and Brnovich also decided that the changes to the state election code shouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2023, because one of the laws the bill is amending is not effective itself until then.

Last month’s filing from Arizona Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander for Equity claims that this bill targets “only certain groups… naturalized voters and voters of color,” which is completely untrue. This law will affect all invalid or illegal voter registrations regardless of the person’s race or naturalization status.

“Democrats’ cries of racism are laughable on their face and serve only to shine a spotlight on the Democrat Party’s long history of institutionalized racism and repeated attempts to disenfranchise millions of Americans throughout the last century and a half,” added Hoffman.

He continued, “make no mistake about it, ensuring clean voter rolls and protecting the sanctity of Arizonans’ votes by prohibiting non-citizens and non-residents from casting illegal ballots benefits every single legal voter regardless of race, gender, income, and party.”

A similar attempt by Democrats to radically change election law by expanding drop boxes, mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, giving voter registration to all regardless of their citizenship status, and banning post-election audits was recently shot down by the Arizona Supreme Court.

The Gateway Pundit also reported extensively on the Arizona 2020 election audit, which discovered massive election law violations and hundreds of thousands of illegal or fraudulent ballots in the 2020 Presidential Election.

This is another attempt by the Democrats to steal elections through dirty voter rolls and mass mail-in ballots.

Unintended Consequences: Vaccine Mandates Are Flipping Voter Registrations And Driving Political Change

It has taken a while, but parents have woken up to the racism taught in government schools.  The grooming of students to be sexualized—and the mental illness of teachers asking boys if they might be girls instead.

This all started when parents realized they were lied to by the unions and the Democrats owned by the unions when schools were closed.  The parents knew the science, masks are worthless, there was no science behind social distancing and the closure of schools was for the benefits of lazy teachers not the education of students.

Now young people with kids are going Republican.  Most Republican questioned the open lies of Fascist Fauci and his crew.  Just as Virginia in November 2021 changed that State—and the voters in Florida threw out dozens of school boards members who hated kids and wanted dangerous drugs forced into kids, Republicans are getting the election day victories.

Unintended Consequences: Vaccine Mandates Are Flipping Voter Registrations And Driving Political Change

‘I thought we ought to do something to fight against these policies and funnel people toward politicians who were freedom-minded.’

ASHLEY BATEMAN, The Federalist, 9/8/22 

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Adevout Christian, father, and African-American, Michael Anderson didn’t feel represented by either party and until Jan. 31 of this year, remained politically unaffiliated. But a series of events has led him to align with and campaign alongside conservatives in one of North Carolina’s most liberal counties.

Anderson is an attorney for a Big Tech company in Charlotte. Headquartered just a few miles across the border in South Carolina, his company claims the fifth largest internet footprint in the United States. Higher-ups have a stated goal of widespread “influence.” They are making good on that goal.

On Nov 18, 2021, the CEO stood before an all-employee meeting at the Charlotte location and declared for the “greater good of humanity” it was no longer enough to segregate the workers who had not received a Covid-19 vaccine. They had to be removed entirely.

The entire company had been working remotely for nearly two years at that point, Anderson said. The announcement came just before the holidays.

“Hundreds of people found out that day they would be fired unless they submitted to the mandate without an approved medical or religious exemption,” Anderson said.

Anderson reached out to co-workers via an internal Slack channel sharing his concerns and received a flood of responses expressing stress and fear.

“I’ve worked in some difficult places with some difficult people and that was the most difficult week of my career,” Anderson said. “I grew up in a single-parent family below the poverty level. Single mothers [were contacting me]. Pregnant women were contacting me to see whether they could receive a medical exemption. There were so many inequities and unjust consequences to this poorly thought out, draconian mandate.”

About 60 employees linked up. “All these people [losing their jobs] are super high-performing, hardworking people, some who have been in the company for 15-16 years,” Anderson said. “I asked the CEO to change the policy, the director of diversity, the General Counsel; I couldn’t change their minds.”

Anderson began using his legal expertise to assist exemption-seekers. Alongside like-minded freedom fighters, he developed a coalition, ByManyOrByFew, to inform, educate and connect voters.

“I thought we ought to do something to fight against these policies and funnel people toward politicians who were freedom-minded,” he said.

But Anderson didn’t stop there. Within weeks of the company announcement, he decided to run for a North Carolina House seat in Mecklenburg, one of the most Democratic counties in the state. Choosing a party affiliation by now was a no-brainer.

In preparation to testify before the South Carolina House and Ways subcommittee on December 7, 2021, for a workplace vaccination bill that could eventually impact the North Carolina arm of the company he works for, Anderson reached out to both political parties. Not one Democrat would respond, but many Republicans fighting for individual rights did. “Forty-four Caucasians were fighting to protect my rights,” he said.

Vaccines historically have a disparate impact on minorities. Anderson references the Tuskegee Experiment, as one horrific example. He saw history repeating itself with the Covid-19 vaccine, led by a Democratic president.

“When you had these vaccine mandates come out, I placed the blame at the feet of President Biden,” Anderson said. “Although his mandates were ultimately unsuccessful, a lot of companies were encouraged and enabled to have their own vaccine mandates and a private company has a lot more flexibility compared to the government. As a result, by their terms, that caused systemic, institutional racism because it has a disparate impact on minorities.”

That is who Anderson specifically wants to champion; and who Democrats continuously fail to support or outright harm with disastrous policies. Even with the CDC’s recently updated vaccine guidelines, Democratic leaders like Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are pursuing policies that hurt miniorities disproportionately, like a vaccine mandate that would bar 40 percent of D.C. black teenagers from in-person learning.

“My district is 60 percent African American, 20 percent Latino,” Anderson said. “The reason why I like that and that’s where I want to be is not only because I am African American, there’s no demographic flipping faster from Democrat to Republican than Latino. And if you look at the vaccine mandates, there is no race that was hurt worse than African Americans.”

Minority voters have been impacted by other far-left policies, and are expressing their discontent at the polls. A recent interview by NPR with political scientist Ruy Teixeira revealed how Democrats are driving minority voters to flip partisanship, especially in the Latino population. 

“…[T]he ultra-progressive wing of the Democratic Party privileging criminal justice reform over public safety,” has become a major concern of minority voters, Teixeira said. “People want to be safe from crime, and that includes a lot of nonwhite voters. It is not a matter for them of choosing between the two, but rather above all, you’ve got to keep our community safe.”

Anderson’s opponent for NC House District 99, Democratic Rep. Nasif Majeed, supported the “ultra-progressive” defunding of the Charlotte police in his previous campaign. Charlotte now has only 1,600 police officers for a city of 1 million people. Three hundred defections or retirements are expected in the near term and salaries start as low as $40,000. A lack of manpower has resulted in unanswered 911 calls and crimes below a felony going entirely unaddressed. “Social justice warriors” are crippling police response, according to local law enforcement.

Democrats’ leftist ideologies ruin cities and Anderson wants to get his town back on track, but he knows reform isn’t possible alongside current Democrats in North Carolina’s House, who hold a majority in the legislature. 

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Anderson grew up below the poverty level in a biracial, single-parent home. Progressive policies pressed during the pandemic are driving inequity that entrap and eliminate those the far-left claim to champion, he said. He feels there is no place for him in the Democratic Party right now.

Through door-to-door campaigning, he’s found that many registered Democrats in Charlotte agree.

“I ask people what issues they need represented and how the system is failing them,” Anderson said. “You have to have conversations with people to know.”

Empowered by a Democrat president, Democrat House, and a coalition of Democrat governors, Covid-19 tyranny has driven a new type of minority leader like Anderson to represent an increasingly diverse Republican party — one that engages in the political battle and fights for the now tenuous freedoms once taken for granted.

Michigan’s Secretary of State Fights to Keep Dead on Voter Rolls

In Michigan a court has ordered that dead people be taken off the voting rolls.  In California, which has a list of 440,000 that have died or moved out of State, continue on the rolls and get absentee ballots.  The State Party has a list of 64,000 people who were duplicated on the voting rolls—32,000 registered twice.

Yet, while in Michigan the dead are off the voting rolls, the California Republican Party seems to have the same philosophy as the California Democrat Party—‘THE DEAD HAVE A CONTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE.”  Until the CRP takes action it is wasting money on candidates—they are by their silence consenting to corrupt elections.  When the Chair Jessica Patterson says there is no vote fraud in California, she knows she is not telling the truth—and the people of California pay for her acceptance of vote fraud

“The Public Interest Legal Foundation had conducted a very detailed matching program to ensure the list it provided to Benson was accurate. As federal Judge Jane Beckering, an appointee of President Joe Biden, pointed out in her order, the legal foundation had compared the names of registered voters with the Social Security Administration’s Death Index and “matched full names, full dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, and credit address history information.”

Yet Benson refused to take any action to verify this information and to remove those dead voters from the rolls. She was obligated to do so under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which according to Beckering, requires election officials to remove “registrants from the voter registration roll because of the death of the registrant or a change in the residence of the registrant.”

Michigan’s Secretary of State Fights to Keep Dead on Voter Rolls

Hans von Spakovsky, Daily Signal,   8/31/22     https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/30/why-wont-michigans-secretary-of-state-purge-dead-from-voter-rolls/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGGlFygo-j5gXAvyZ1kiRADuRS7JIa3WdzGOOSZjt34wp2Hhqyk7QDTriwOakfGYnxMDwtgnjmAewAGazHzUMIqx394fYUYJs9-rHKTr-iY_JjYBQ

Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

In an order that illustrates the bizarre views of controversial Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a federal court has turned down Benson’s motion to throw out a lawsuit filed against her for refusing to remove almost 26,000 dead voters from Michigan voters rolls. 

In mid-September 2020, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (of which I am a board member) sent Benson a list of all of the deceased registrants who remained on the state’s voter rolls less than two months before the presidential election.

Of those nearly 26,000 Michigan residents, 23,663 had been dead for at least five years, 17,479 had been dead for at least a decade and, astonishingly, 3,956 had been dead for at least two decades, yet they were still listed as registered voters in the state.

That shows just how inadequate Michigan’s procedures are for safeguarding the accuracy of its voter list. 

The Public Interest Legal Foundation had conducted a very detailed matching program to ensure the list it provided to Benson was accurate. As federal Judge Jane Beckering, an appointee of President Joe Biden, pointed out in her order, the legal foundation had compared the names of registered voters with the Social Security Administration’s Death Index and “matched full names, full dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, and credit address history information.”

Yet Benson refused to take any action to verify this information and to remove those dead voters from the rolls. She was obligated to do so under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which according to Beckering, requires election officials to remove “registrants from the voter registration roll because of the death of the registrant or a change in the residence of the registrant.”

The law also requires transparency. Election officials must make available for public inspection and copying all records “concerning the implementation” of its voter registration activities and, in particular, its procedures for maintaining the accuracy of the lists, such as removing deceased voters. 

Yet when the Public Interest Legal Foundation  requested that Benson allow “public inspection or provide copies” of its records regarding the removal of dead voters, she responded that no such inspection would be allowed and no copies would be provided because her “offices were closed to the public due to the pandemic.” 

According to the judge, the legal foundation sent multiple letters to Benson trying to get those records before it finally was forced to file suit because Benson not only refused to comply with the law, but also refused to take any action to use the detailed information provided by the foundation to clean up the state’s voter rolls. 

Her only response was that Michigan already had a general program in place that makes “reasonable efforts” to removed deceased voters from the rolls.  She apparently doesn’t care that her “reasonable efforts” are obviously not working. 

Instead of simply settling the lawsuit and agreeing to finally remove the dead voters, Benson filed a motion to dismiss the case, while her spokeswoman called the lawsuit an attempt to “undermine American democracy.” 

Apparently, Michigan’s secretary of state thinks that trying to prevent someone from using a deceased voter’s registration to fraudulently vote “undermines” democracy.

Nothing could be further from the truth, of course. The voter registration list is an essential election integrity document because it tells election officials who is eligible to vote. Accurate voter rolls reduce the opportunity for fraud and give voters confidence in the honesty of their elections.

In her motion to dismiss, Benson made the meritless claim that the Public Interest Legal Foundation had not fulfilled the notice requirement of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires that election officials be given written notice of a potential violation of the law prior to a lawsuit being filed. 

Given the numerous letters that legal foundation had sent to Benson, which included a detailed list of the dead voters as well as a complete description of the methodology used to create the list, the court refused to dismiss the lawsuit. 

The judge held that the legal foundation had more than satisfied the notice requirement since it had not only “set forth the manner in which Secretary Benson has purportedly failed to comply with the NVRA’s list maintenance requirements,” but also “clearly communicated that it would commence litigation if the purported violation was not timely addressed.”

In fact, the National Voter Registration Act requires notice 90 days before you are allowed to file suit. The legal foundation had waited 411 days, giving Benson more than enough time to act. But instead of trying to fix the problem, Benson failed to do anything about it and continues to spend taxpayer dollars and resources on fighting the lawsuit and defending the state’s inadequate list-maintenance program.

Of course, this isn’t the end of the case. But it is an initial win for election integrity in Michigan since the case will go forward, and Benson will have to defend her refusal to comply with federal law.

It should be alarming to Michigan residents that their secretary of state is fighting to prevent the removal of deceased individuals who are still registered to vote. Maintaining accurate, clean voter rolls is an important part of her job, and election officials should not have to be sued to force them to fulfill such a basic job requirement.

Hopefully, this lawsuit will be successful in finally getting Benson to remove the nearly 26,000 deceased registrants who shouldn’t be on Michigan’s voter rolls.

In 2021, a similar lawsuit was filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation in Pennsylvania and ultimately the commonwealth agreed to settle the case and remove the deceased registrants from its voter rolls.  But as in Michigan, organizations like the legal foundation should not have to file a lawsuit to get a state to do what it should have been doing all along.

Michigan is a battleground state that often has very close elections. In 2016, Donald Trump won the state by a little more than 11,000 votes. Local elections in Michigan are often decided by a handful of votes.

We should all be able to agree that we do not want deceased individuals on the voter rolls, providing the opportunity for someone to cast illegal ballots in their name.

That should not be a partisan issue. One illegal vote is too many.

The good news is that because of this court ruling, Michigan might be one step closer to fixing this problem, whether Benson wants to or not.