In the wake of the 2016 election, I got into a spat with friends over the issue of voter fraud in our elections. Many dismissed the gravity of the problem in their zeal to hype Hillary’s almost 3 million popular vote margin over Trump. I maintained: Not so fast. The Dems run up the score in the few deep blue states (Actually, the Dems deserve red.). And what about that score? Is the popular vote pristine, meaning one-man-one-vote? Does each ballot represent a vote by an eligible voter? Or, conversely, is the vote total polluted with a lot of noise in the form of ballots emanating from dead people, identity theft, or serial instances of multiple voting. You can’t know the extent the problem till you look.
When we look, we find it. The Heritage Foundation website maintains a log of voter fraud cases. Take a look here.
Last night, Tucker Carlson played a clip of rampant voter fraud in Ilhan Omar’s district (D, Minn. 5th congressional dist.). If the clip wasn’t doctored to tell a lie, then the pictures won’t. If nothing else, they probably pull back the covers on a black market in votes like the one for drugs, sex, porn, or murder-for-hire. See below.
Check fraud is easy if no one checks for ID; likewise in the black market of votes. The fraud is facilitated if voter rolls are infrequently cleaned of the deadwood, as in California in both its forests and voter registration rolls. Add same-day registration and widespread vote-by-mail and the integrity of the popular vote becomes a meaningless talking point.
One antidote is the Electoral College. The Electoral College dilutes the influence of the popular manias in deep blue states as well as malfeasance with the franchise. Like the fact that smartness isn’t evenly distributed in the population, so with corrupted voting in the states. It demands of the winner that he or she have a broader appeal than the corrupted vote totals in a few highly populous states. Now there’s a civics lesson long forgotten.
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RogerG
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