The United States law that mandates election fraud

Yes, there is a Federal law that supports most of the election fraud we have seen in recent years. It was enacted with the best of intentions, proving once again that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That law is the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Like so many bad laws, it is lengthy and over specifies how voter registrations are to be processed.

When a law is over specified, it does two bad things, it clearly defines what things must be avoided or gotten around by those who would abuse it, and it precludes later correction and improvement when its flaws are uncovered. Both those situations exist with regard to this law. The summary alone on the DoJ website runs to nearly 20 pages of text.

Good intentions gone bad

On the Department of Justice website, we find:

Congress enacted the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (also known as the "NVRA" and the "Motor Voter Act"), to enhance voting opportunities for every American. The Act has made it easier for all Americans to register to vote and to maintain their registration.

That sounds good enough on its face, but as with so many other fine sounding documents, the devil is in the details. And a devilish batch of details there are. Some of the key requirements are:

• driver license applications must also include provision for voter registration in the same form (motor-voter law) Sec. 5
• states must provide for voter registration by mail. They may also provide for registration online. Sec. 6
• registrants who will be voting for the first time in an election involving candidates for federal offices must provide identification according to HAVA (Help America Vote Act) Sec. 303(b)
• once entered in the voter rolls, there are only a very limited number of ways they can be removed. Sec. 7

What could possibly go wrong?

Each of those requirements provide little or no protection against fraudulent registration. As we shall see, the ability to add fraudulent registrations to voter rolls is a key element of systematic election fraud such as we have observed in recent elections.

Take the motor-voter registration for example. One might think that someone who shows up in person to get a driver's license would be easy to check. One of the few hard requirements for voter registration is that they must be a citizen. There is a checkbox on every application that must be checked to indicate they are a citizen entitled to vote.

Few jurisdictions, though, will make any effort to determine if a person is actually a citizen. "Proof" can consist of a birth certificate which can easily be forged and often is for illegal immigrants. There are entire organizations that will provide fake birth certificates, social security ID, and other documents to illegals for a modest fee.

Registering by mail or online is even easier. The applicant doesn't even have to show up in person. Required proof can be provided as a photocopy along with the mailed in registration or with a ballot when one has registered by mail. The HAVA law prescribes thirty different forms of acceptable ID, that include such definitive identification as a health club membership card, a utility bill, a credit or debit card, an employer ID, and even a copy of the address page of an election document the state might send prior to an election. Our election officials take great care to ensure that only legal voters can register to vote—just ask them.

The immortality of voter registrations

Once in the voter rolls of a state, the law only allows a very limited number of ways that a registration can be removed. These reasons include:

• the state is presented with acceptable evidence the voter has died;
• the voter requests that they be removed from the voter rolls;
• the state receives evidence the voter has moved out of the jurisdiction;
• in some states, if the voter is guilty of a felony or if they have been declared mentally incompetent.

Note there is no provision for removing an entry if it is found to be fraudulent or fictional. Those can live in the rolls forever so long as someone returns a postcard every few years requesting the registration be retained as active.

Even if someone registers but never votes, the NVRA law specifies they cannot be removed unless one of the other valid reasons applies.

In most cases, the process for removal will take at least eight years, during which time a registration can be reactivated by returning a postcard, by voting, or even by a phone call. Reactivation starts the eight year clock ticking again. 

Election fraud in theory and practice

So what does it matter, one might ask? In recent years, we have seen large numbers of unaccountable votes turn up in various elections. One candidate appears to be winning until the last minute when a sudden surge of votes for their opponent appears and overturns the results. Where did all those opposition votes originate? How did Senile Joe end up with 81 million votes? Enter the ghost brigade of entries in the voter rolls for whom no valid citizen voter exists.

A recent arrest of a city council member in Lodi, California for election fraud illustrates the mechanism. It appears that the accused used the ability to create online registrations for a variety of "voters" some of whom were real people and others that were made up. Because these entries were now in the voter rolls, they were mailed ballots. In an interesting twist on circular logic, the fact that these "voters" were mailed ballots was sufficient proof that they were legitimate voters. These ballots sent to non-existent voters were filled out and returned by mail for counting.

No real barriers to fraud

The signature verification process that was originally intended to catch fraudulent ballots had been watered down over the years to the point where any signature on the ballot envelope would be accepted. Thus, once a fraudulent ballot was created, it would be virtually guaranteed to be counted.

This was simply a small scale example of what has been happening on a national scale. The individual involved won their election by a few hundred votes, and was caught because they were involved in some other illegal activities. The fact that creating false registrations and false ballots were felonies was no deterrent as the chances of being caught were almost zero. In fact, were it not for the other illegal activities, they probably would have gotten away with it.

The ghosts in the machine

So how does all this apply to the NVRA provisions? From the California case, we can see how the weaknesses of registration by mail, online, and through driver's license applications can facilitate the introduction of fake voter registrations into the voter rolls.

Lack of meaningful provisions for removal of identified fake entries means that fake registrations can accumulate in voter rolls over a period of years to the point where they become a significant portion of the rolls. These fake registrations form an army of "ghost voters" that can be mobilized in an election to produce votes for select candidates according to the wishes of the ghost masters and not the citizens. As was proven, the numbers of ghost ballots can be sufficient to change the outcome of an election.

Recently it was reported that Los Angeles county in California had twenty-five percent of its voter rolls identified as invalid. Supposedly, these identified entries were removed. However, even if the county locally removed them, their authority to do so would be questionable under the NVRA. Further, California synchronizes voter rolls across the state every two years, so that even if the local copies were removed, they would likely be restored when the are resynchronised.

A national problem

The problem is not restricted to California. There are reports across the country that voter rolls are contaminated with millions of invalid entries that cannot be legally removed. The NVRA mandates that these entries be preserved and available for use by those who would commit election fraud. That may not have been the intent, but it clearly is the consequence.

What do we do now?

It is a matter of national priority that the NVRA be repealed, or at minimum amended to allow identified fraudulent entries in voter rolls to be deleted as soon as they are identified. One approach would be to allow citizen challenges of voter roll entries so that they could be investigated through canvassing or cross checking other data sources. If, after reasonable investigation, they were found to be invalid, they should immediately be permanently removed.

We need to contact our Representatives and Senators and request their immediate attention to addressing the problem. Those who are resistant, or who offer excuses of higher priorities or difficulty should be considered suspect as possible beneficiaries of election fraud and investigated.

Such suspicion does not violate the principle of "innocent until proven guilty" since suspicion is simply a basis for investigation. It is not necessary to find someone guilty of a crime before they can be investigated.

Time for the write stuff

Whether the problem is a result of oversight or of deliberate intent doesn't matter. Until the law can be corrected, we cannot have a trustworthy election. Enough ghosts can be rallied to overcome almost any group of legal voters. It is time to shine some light in and dispel the mists that sustain the ghosts. This is how we regain our Republic.