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Illegal Alien Voters Could Swing Close Elections to Democrats

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by: KW_88 Active Indicator LED Icon  OP 
~ 9 years ago   Nov 3, '14 4:14pm  
Votes cast by illegal aliens, who are not required to show proof of citizenship prior to voting in 46 states, could give Democrats victories in razor-tight midterm races.
Even if less than 5% of total votes in an election come from illegal
aliens, that’s still enough for Democrats to win close races because
illegals are eight times more likely to label themselves Democrats than Republicans.
“Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes,” reported the Washington Times. “Votes cast by just 0.65% of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin.”
“It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for
Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina; Obama won the state by 14,177
votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult
non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.”

Recently, North Carolina compared a list of voters to an immigration database and discovered that nearly 15% of the voters were likely illegal aliens.
Up to 7% of Maryland’s voters may be illegals as well, which has prompted a lawsuit by an election integrity watchdog group.
Although many states require some form of identification prior to voting, that doesn’t stop illegal immigrants who routinely receive driver’s licenses.
“In terms of a check and balance that would prevent an individual
who is a non-U.S. citizen from registering to vote, that doesn’t
exist,” Neal Kelley, the chairman of the California Association of
Election Officials, told Fox News. “There’s absolutely nothing stopping them.”
Political groups attempting to steal an election routinely rely on illegal aliens, according to Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State of Kansas.
“They’re told falsely that they are eligible to vote and then
they’re coached how to vote, and it’s happening all across the country,”
he said.
Case in point, Project Vertias, a voter fraud watchdog group,
sent an operative to various election events in North Carolina to ask
campaign managers if she could vote as an illegal alien.
Not only did the campaign managers give her advice on how to vote, they actively encouraged her to do so.
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 3, '14 4:21pm  
Are they from Mars or from Venus? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 3, '14 4:48pm  
this is ********. the chicken little pandering to fear mentality for the reality:Out of the 197 million votes cast for federal candidates between 2002
and 2005, only 40 voters were indicted for voter fraud, according to a Department of Justice study
outlined during a 2006 Congressional hearing. Only 26 of those cases,
or about .00000013 percent of the votes cast, resulted in convictions or
guilty pleas.
 





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Illegal immigrant vote-fraud cases rare in Arizona

Records cast doubt on official’s claims





An examination of voter-fraud cases in Maricopa County shows those
involving illegal immigrants are nearly non-existent, and have been
since before the changes to voter-ID requirements were enacted in 2004.
In response to an Arizona Republic records request, the
Maricopa County Attorney’s Office provided a list of 21 criminal cases
since January 2005 in which the suspect was charged with a felony
related to voter fraud. A search of court records found 13 other cases.
Of the 34 Maricopa County cases, two of the suspects were in the
country illegally and 12 were not citizens but living in the U.S.
legally, court records showed. One of the suspect’s legal-residency
status was unclear from the records.
The non-citizens came from around the world — Indonesia, Canada,
Mexico, Yugoslavia, the Philippines and Thailand. Most had been living
legally in the U.S. for decades. Several stated in court documents that
they thought they were permitted to vote because they were legal
permanent residents of the United States.
None was convicted of a felony or given any jail time. A couple of
the cases were dismissed; the other suspects pleaded guilty to
misdemeanors and served a few months of probation.
Eighteen of the cases involved convicted felons who had lost the
right to vote. In several of the cases, the felons told the court no one
had ever explained to them that they no longer could vote even after
serving their time. One said he was sent an early ballot in the mail and
thought he was permitted to vote.
Presented with this information, Horne maintained that voter fraud by illegal immigrants is a problem in Arizona.
“There are thousands of people who were non-citizens who registered to vote, and many of them voted,” he said.
He said he based his statements on court testimony by county
recorders, who said more than 200 people in a single year had stated on a
jury-duty summons that they weren’t citizens. “And jury forms only go
to a small percentage of residents, so you have to multiply that to get
the number of non-citizens who actually registered statewide,” Horne
said.
But Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell said Horne’s numbers aren’t accurate.
She agreed there are a couple of hundred instances each year in which
the county jury commissioner notifies her that someone has stated on a
jury form that he or she is not a citizen. But Purcell said not all of
those are cases involve a person who is illegally registered to vote,
much less one who has illegally cast a ballot.
“The jury summons is a combination of voter registration and driver’s
licenses,” she said, explaining that an individual does not have to be a
registered voter to be summoned for jury duty. “They may go to some
people that have a driver’s license and are not citizens but are legal
aliens.”
If they are registered to vote, Purcell said she immediately removes them from the registration rolls.
If they actually are citizens and lied in order to avoid being
summoned for jury duty — which Purcell said happens regularly — they can
re-register.
If Purcell determines someone has registered and voted illegally, she
forwards the case to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office for
prosecution. She didn’t know the exact numbers of such cases, but said
they amount to a handful each year.
“I don’t see it as a big problem,” she said. “We send very few to the County Attorney’s Office.”
Other county recorders echoed Purcell’s assessment.
Christine Rhodes has been county recorder in Cochise County since 1973.
“Much of our land here is on the border, and I can’t remember ever going to court on any voter-fraud case,” she said.
Horne said the low number of prosecutions doesn’t prove anything.
“A lot of them don’t get prosecuted,” Horne said. “(The county attorneys) have scarce resources and bigger fish to fry.”
According to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, over the past
nine years there were four cases of voter fraud that the office decided
not to prosecute.
Despite the numbers, Horne said he will continue to defend the
voter-approved requirement for proof of identification to register to
vote as it moves through the courts. He said he believes voters agree
that voter fraud by illegal immigrants is a problem in Arizona, and
that’s why they passed the requirements.
“If people believe that their votes are diluted by people voting
illegally, they lose faith in the system and you can get a decline in
participation,” he said.
The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down parts of the
voter-registration law, ruling that Arizona cannot demand proof of
citizenship from people who register using the federal form but can from
those who use the state form.
Horne said he expects the case to end up back before the U.S. Supreme
Court at least once more before the issue is resolved. In the meantime,
voters who registered using the federal form will be allowed to vote
only in federal elections.
Arizona voters in November 2014 may get to decide for themselves whether they think Arizona has a fraud problem.
The ballot will include election-law changes the Legislature approved
earlier this year, partially based on the argument that they were
needed to stop voter fraud.
The legislation tightened procedures for citizen initiatives and
referendums, limited who can return a voter’s ballot to the polls, and
allowed dropping people from the permanent early-voting list if they
fail to vote by mail in consecutive elections.
Opponents, who gathered enough signatures to halt the law and take it
to voters, argue the real motivation behind the law — and the voter-ID
requirements — is to stifle minority voters.
“This is not about voter integrity and fraud, it’s about suppressing
the vote,” said Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix. “It’s about ‘How do we
reduce the number of folks participating in our elections? Because if
you start opening the door to higher voter participation, then we’ll see
more young voters, minority voters, those who tend to be more
centrist.’ And that’s the population they are trying to shut the doors
on.”
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 3, '14 4:49pm  
Cases of voter-ID election fraud found 'virtually non-existent'





By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carson, News21 | 08/13/12





 


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In Minnesota, there have been 10 total cases of
reported fraud and no cases of voter impersonation reported since 2000.

 
Editor’s note: This report is part of a project on voting rights in America produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 program.A
News21 analysis of 2,068 alleged election-fraud cases since 2000 shows
that while fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person
voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state
legislatures to enact or consider tough voter ID laws, is virtually
non-existent.In an exhaustive public records search, News21
reporters sent thousands of requests to elections officers in all 50
states, asking for every case of fraudulent activity, including
registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, vote buying, false election
counts, campaign fraud, casting an ineligible vote, voting twice, voter
impersonation fraud and intimidation.Analysis of the resulting comprehensive News21 election fraud database
turned up 10 cases of voter impersonation. With 146 million registered
voters in the United States during that time, those 10 cases represent
one out of about every 15 million prospective voters.In Minnesota, there have been 10 total cases of reported fraud and no cases of voter impersonation reported since 2000.“Voter
fraud at the polls is an insignificant aspect of American elections,”
said elections expert David Schultz, professor of public policy at
Hamline University School of Business in St. Paul.Courtesy of Hamline UniversityDavid Schultz“There
is absolutely no evidence that [voter impersonation fraud] has affected
the outcome of any election in the United States, at least any recent
election in the United States,” Schultz said. 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Nov 3, '14 5:02pm  
About Project VeritasProject Veritas was founded by James O’Keefe.
The mission of Project Veritas is to investigate and expose corruption,
dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both
public and private institutions in order to achieve a more ethical and
transparent society.james o'keefe is the person who has made a career of the cut and paste video to 'prove' his foregone conclusions, who was arrested for breaking into mary landreiu's govt offices in louisiana, whose videos were rejected by prosecutors in several cases in california as so editted as to be worthless in any case as evidence ..the secretary of state of kansas was just in the news as an abysmal example of defending the sanctity of the voter rolls because of sloppy and slipshod techniques which expunged voters from the rolls as duplicates based on having the same names even tho the middle names were different,  failed to account for voters with the same names like mary smith but different social security numbers, and various and sundry other glaring errors of judgement. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Nov 21, '14 7:11pm  
YOU THINK? 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Dec 4, '14 8:37pm  
Are they from Mars or from Venus?
 
@notfromhere: No but if they were.. we wouldn't want them voting either.
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~ 9 years ago   Dec 4, '14 8:45pm  
Duh...... Where have you been 4951
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