No, voter fraud isn't a myth: 10 cases where it's all too real

 No, voter fraud isn't a myth: 10 cases where it's all too real - Washington Times

No, voter fraud isn’t a myth: 10
cases where it’s all too real

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Monday, October 17, 2016
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
As Donald Trump takes on the Republican establishment, Democrats and the
mainstream media, he’s telling supporters they’re 􀃒ghting against a “rigged” system, rife
with voter fraud and those eager to protect the status quo. The left, predictably, says this
type of talk is “dangerous” to the integrity of our electoral system, and then glibly asks for
Mr. Trump to prove his voter fraud allegations.
10/18/2016 No, voter fraud isn't a myth: 10 cases where it's all too real - Washington Times

This is where the left is wrong: The argument isn’t whether voter fraud is real, but how
widespread it is. Here’s 10 examples documenting that voter fraud isn’t a myth and how
Mr. Trump’s claims aren’t just speculation.

1. Dead people voting in Colorado.
A CBS a􀃕liate’s evidence of voter fraud in Colorado in September sparked an immediate
investigation by Secretary of State Wayne Williams. A report in Denver exposed multiple
incidents in recent years where dead Coloradans were still voting. A dead World War II
veteran named John Grosso voted in a 2006 primary election, and a woman named Sara
Sosa who died in 2009 cast ballots in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. Mrs. Sosa’s husband
Miguel died in 2008, but a vote was cast in his name one year later.

2. Illegals found voting in Virginia; only discovered after they self-reported.
A study by the watchdog Public Interest Legal Foundation found in just eight Virginia
counties, 1,046 alien non-citizens successfully registered to vote. These aliens were only
accidentally caught because when they renewed their driver’s license and self-reported,
telling authorities they were a non-citizen. This study doesn’t even include the
metropolises of Fairfax County and Arlington. Moreover, the FBI opened an investigation
in the state after 20 dead people turned in applications to vote.

3. Some Pennsylvania citizens voting twice.
Last year, Pennsylvania’s secretary of state admitted data showed more than 700
Pennsylvania voters might have cast two ballots in recent elections, yet said she’s
powerless to investigate or prosecute double voters.

Nearly 43,000 voters in Pennsylvania had potentially duplicate registrations in either
Pennsylvania or other states, data researcher Voter Registration Data Crosscheck found.

4. Illegal voters uncovered in Philadelphia; half had previously voted.
At least 86 non-citizens have been registered voters in Philadelphia since 2013, and
almost half of them have cast a ballot in a recent election, watchdog Public Interest Legal
Foundation noted this month. The number was only turned up after o􀃕cials received
speci􀃒c requests from the voters themselves to remove their names from the rolls.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” Joseph Vanderhulst, the watchdog’s attorney, told
LifeZette on Oct. 5. “Who knows how many are on and don’t ask to be taken o􀃗?”

5. Voter rigging triggers probe in Texas.
This week, allegations of voter fraud in Tarrant County, Texas, prompted a state
investigation. The suit focuses on mail-in ballots, which allows for people to vote from
their homes without any ID or veri􀃒cation of identity. There’s concern of so-called “voteharvesting”
were political operatives 􀃒ll out and return other people’s ballots, without
their consent.

6. Indiana voter fraud investigation grows to 56 counties.
According to a local NBC report, Indiana State Police are in the midst of a statewide
investigation into possible voter registration fraud.
“Police believe there could be hundreds of fraudulent voter registration records with
di􀃗erent combinations of made up names and addresses with people’s real information,”
NBC 12 reported.
The police encourage victims of suspected voter fraud to report it to Indiana’s secretary
of state.

7. Three under investigation in Oklahoma for voting twice in the presidential
primary.
An investigation is underway into three Comanche County, Oklahoma, residents who
voted twice in last week’s Presidential Preferential Primary, according to the local ABC 7
News station, KSWO.

“All three submitted absentee ballots before showing up to their polling place on March 1
and voted again in person,” the report said. “The Comanche County Sheri􀃗’s Department
is investigating the case and will interview all three of them before handing the case over
to the district attorney.”

8. Election fraud in Kentucky.
A Franklin County grand jury has indicted a Pike County man in June on multiple felony
counts of election fraud in connection with last month’s statewide primary.
Keith Justice, 50, has been charged with four counts of intimidating an election o􀃕cer and
one count of interfering with an election o􀃕cer in Pike County.

9. Underage voters found voting in Wisconsin’s presidential primary.
Brown County election o􀃕cials in April found six cases where underage voters cast a
ballot in the state’s presidential primary. County Clerk Sandy Juno told a local reporter
that six 17-year-old students registered and voted. Despite 􀃒ve of the students
presenting a valid ID, poll workers never looked at the date of birth on them or on the
registration forms they 􀃒lled out, Ms. Juno told local news website wearegreenbay.com. In
one case, the student used a report card as identi􀃒cation.

10. Voter registration cards sent to illegals in Pennsylvania.
In September, the secretary of state’s o􀃕ce in Pennsylvania mailed about 2.5 million
voter registration postcards to people who are not registered voters, but are licensed
drivers. Secretary of State Pedro Cortes admitted to the House of Representatives that
seven people had reported that they received voter registration cards in error, selfreporting.
State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Butler County Republican who chairs the State Government
Committee, said in September testimony that there’s several problem’s with the state’s
voter registration system.
“There’s certainly the potential for hundreds, if not thousands, of foreigners here legally
and illegally to be on our voter rolls, and a certain percentage who are casting ballots,”
Mr. Metchalfe told LifeZette. “We’ve got a lot of integrity issues that need to be
addressed.”

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