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Is Rampant Voter Fraud by Illegal Aliens Being Ignored by Government and Media?
Guest Column | By Jim Kouri, CPP | August 12, 2008
A recent
study released by the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation
provides proof that illegal aliens and immigrants with green cards are
committing rampant voter fraud in the United States.
Reports
of ineligible persons registering to vote have raised concerns about
state processes for verifying voter registration lists. States usually
base voter eligibility on the voter's age, U.S. citizenship, mental
competence, and felon status.
Although individual states run
elections, Congress has authority to affect the administration of the
elections. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) had set a deadline
for states to have a statewide voter registration list and list
verification procedures.
For example, the methods used in
seven selected states to verify voter eligibility and ensure accuracy
of voter registration lists were varied and include relying on
registrant self attestation, return mailings, and checking against
lists of felony convictions or deceased individuals. Some states, for
instance, failed to do any more than ask on their application forms if
the registrant was a U.S. citizen. The applicant will merely check off
the "Yes" box, but there is no action to verify the authenticity of
that answer.
"The voter registration officials simply take the
word of the registrant with no follow-up," said conservative political
strategist Michael Baker.
"Some states that require some
backup documentation merely ask for a utility bill or a driver's
license - neither of which prove citizenship. In other words, legal or
illegal aliens can easily register to vote in local and national
elections," warns Baker.
According to a Congressional study of voter fraud, other challenges such as identifying duplicate
registrations in other states or having insufficient information to
match other data sources with voter registration lists may continue to
be issues.
While federal data sources have the potential to
help state election officials identify registrants who may be convicted
felons or non-citizens, few states communicate with federal agencies
such as the Homeland Security Department's immigration section.
Many government officials claim that illegal aliens voting is not a
major problem, and conservative activists respond that while the
potential number identified may be small, an election can be decided by
a few votes. In 2004, the presidential race between Democrat Al Gore
and Republican George W. Bush was decided by a few hundred votes in
Florida.
"While the news media perpetuated the assertion that
Bush and the GOP 'stole' the election, it could very well have been
illegal aliens voting in Florida that made the outcome so close," said
former NYPD cop, now security firm owner, Sid Francis.
"Bush
may have beaten Gore by more votes if illegals were excluded, since
immigrants tend to vote for Democrats. Or Gore could have won
decisively had there been prior screening before people were allowed
into the voting booths," said Det. Francis.
"There was
absolutely no mention in the mainstream media regarding suspected voter
fraud by illegal or legal aliens. It was much easier for the
agenda-driven newspeople to accuse Republicans of stealing the
election," added Baker.
"Florida is not unique. Thousands of
non-citizens are registered to vote in some states, and tens if not
hundreds of thousands in total may be present on the voter rolls
nationwide. These numbers are significant: Local elections are often
decided by only a handful of votes, and even national elections have
likely been within the margin of the number of non-citizens illegally
registered to vote," said Hans A. von Spakovsky, a researcher at the
Heritage Foundation.
"There is no reliable method to determine
the number of non-citizens registered or actually voting because most
laws to ensure that only citizens vote are ignored, are inadequate, or
are systematically undermined by government officials. Those who ignore
the implications of non-citizen registration and voting either are
willfully blind to the problem or may actually favor this form of
illegal voting," said Spakovsky, an expert on the subject of illegal
aliens and immigration law, during an interview on Fox News Channel.
As far as felons, U.S. Attorneys are required to notify state election
officials of federal felony convictions, but the information is not
always easy for election officials to interpret or complete, according
to New Jersey GOP strategist Janice Martin.
"Americans would
be shocked to discover that hundreds of thousands of general election
voters are illegal aliens, green-card immigrants, and criminals who've
murdered, raped and robbed U.S. citizens. And guess which political
party benefits the most from their votes? The one that's pushing for
amnesty and a bag full of free goodies," said Martin.
Dr. von Spakovsky believes many government officials and politicians are complicit in the voter fraud problem.
"To keep non-citizens from diluting citizens' votes, immigration and
election officials must cooperate far more effectively than they have
to date, and state and federal officials must increase their efforts to
enforce the laws against non-citizen voting that are already on the
books," he wrote in his Heritage Foundation study on illegal alien voter fraud.
"While the liberal media and the liberal establishment ignore what is a
huge scandal, American voters are having their rights violated. When an
illegal aliens or felon or other person prohibited by law to vote,
their votes cancels out those of American citizens," warns Baker.
"Liberals want illegal aliens and felons to vote. They benefit from such rampant fraud."
FSM Contributing Editor Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri’s website is located at http://jimkouri.us
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I think public opinion surveys pretty much agree that more than 80% of citizens (apparently including a lot of Democrats, liberals, and Independents) want to see a stop put to illegal immigration and a crack-down on all the additional problems the aliens create.
The Feral Government! That’s funny.
Seriously, Big Money owns the entire country, including both major political parties.
I say let’s vote for Ralph Nader and put him in the White House, finally.
The Democratic Party has shown itself to be as corrupt as the G.O.P.
It deserves to be buried in the scrap heap of history at this point.
I don’t ever find any clear and exact announce from any candidates of the election about this Illegal Aliens. My personal opinion is that its surely needed a mutual solution about this problem. Government should realize the importance of this solution. Because of that some of the political party takes some illegal chance from this illegal aliens.MOT Norwich
August 12 at 9:07 pm | #1 | Link
Rampant fraud committed by the Feral Government is more prevalent. Tis time these alley cats were impounded as the other problems would then tend to themselves.