Fla. lawsuit adds more proof to Trump’s claim that voter fraud is probably rampant

(National Sentinel) Elections: For months after President Donald J. Trump claimed he likely would have also won the popular vote in November had it not been for “millions” of illegal ballots being cast, Democrats and far-Left media mouthpieces have ridiculed him repeatedly, claiming the evidence for his claims doesn’t exist.

And yet, after he formed his voter fraud commission to get to the bottom of whether or not it exists and to what extent, Democrats and Democrat-aligned groups have gone out of their way to thwart the effort, calling it nothing but a scheme to suppress votes.

But as time passes it is becoming more and more evident that the president is onto something, as a lawsuit filed in federal court this week in Florida further demonstrates.

As reported by Lifezette, the chief Broward County elections official appeared in court in Miami as a defendant, “where she will have to explain why” the county “has more registered voters than citizens of voting age — a voter registration rate of 103 percent,” the site noted.

Further, the official will also likely be asked to explain how it’s possible the county — with the state’s highest concentration of Democrats — has thousands of “registered voters” over the age of 100, with some being as old as 130.

Yeah.

The suit was filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), on behalf of the American Civil Rights Union, or ACRU. Logan Churchwell, the organization’s lead researcher, told Lifezette he counted “thousands” of people who were 100 or more on the country’s voter data rolls that were submitted to the federal Election Assistance Commission after the 2014 election.

“It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re dead, but if you’re 130 years old, either find a gravestone or call Guinness,” he said, referring to the famous book of records.

Lifezette noted further:

The case illustrates the very real problem with so many voter rolls in the country, where elected supervisors have often neglected, or even refused, to take steps to ensure that the roll is an accurate list of eligible registered voters.

For his part, Trump has often said the voter fraud problem lies with outdated, inaccurate registration lists. Many people are registered in multiple states and vote, he has said, adding that dead people vote and illegal aliens are able to cast ballots as well. (Related: Voter fraud investigation: Trump criticizes Left-wing states over failure to comply with voter commission’s information requests.)

In Broward County, meanwhile, Churchwell testified in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida regarding the failure of Brenda Snipes, the supervisor of elections, to maintain an up-to-date voter registration list.

The ACRU says that the roll contains the names of perhaps tens of thousands of people who are ineligible to vote or who are no longer alive.

The suit has been brought on behalf of Andrea Bellitto, of Broward County, who contends that her vote, along with thousands of other county residents, either was or could be canceled out by thousands of illegal or improper votes.

Anytime researchers have seriously sought to investigate voter fraud, they have turned up substantial evidence that it exists:

— Trump himself has cited a 2012 study by the Pew Research Center on the States that found the process of voter registration “inaccurate, costly and inefficient,” noting that researchers found “evidence that America’s voter registration system needs an upgrade.” The report noted: “Voter registration in the United States largely reflects its 19th-century origins and has not kept pace with advancing technology and a mobile society. States’ systems must be brought into the 21st century to be more accurate, cost-effective, and efficient.”

— In June NewsTarget reported that a just-released independent study estimated that as many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election, a figure that, if accurate, was no doubt much higher eight years later, taking into consideration the Democrats’ never-ending legal battle against any and all efforts to ensure the accuracy of voter registration lists.

This story originally appeared at NewsTarget.com.

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Trump signs order creating panel to investigate voter fraud

(National Sentinel) Elections: Fulfilling another campaign promise, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a White House committee to look into voter fraud.

Naturally, the Marxist Left went into full meltdown – again – describing the order in usual terms, calling it “racist” and “bigoted” and etc.

Also, interwoven into most Washington establishment reporting on the order is the narrative that voter fraud is a “myth” (Sen. Bernie Sanders’ description) that doesn’t really exist, and all of Trump’s prior claims that it does are “unproven” and “unsubstantiated.”

The Associated Press:

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday launching a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression, building upon his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

[…]

Trump has alleged, without evidence, that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in his 2016 election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Yes, well, the AP and the rest of the establishment press doesn’t want you to know that there have been numerous incidents of voter fraud that, when taken in sum, very well could wind up being “millions” of people across a nation with hundreds of millions of people on voter registration lists, many of them outdated.

Project Veritas has done yeoman’s work on exposing voter fraud, as the following two videos show:

It’s becoming well-known that the only political party universally opposed to 1) investigating voter fraud and; 2) strengthening voter ID laws so we can ensure those who  do vote have a right to – is the Democratic Party and its allied Left-wing groups.

What does that tell you?

On that note, the AP did mention way down in its story that the vote fraud commission Trump has empaneled is bipartisan – there are Republicans and Democrats on board, which was smart given that voter fraud isn’t a partisan issue, it’s an American issue.

States pile on Ohio lawsuit seeking to restore integrity to voter registration lists

(NationalSentinel) Elections: Democrats have long discovered that one way to give their party a boost on election day is to attack voter identification and integrity laws that were designed to ensure free and fair balloting. But the state of Ohio – along with 15 other states – are now challenging a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that somehow found scrubbing voter registration lists of outdated information, dead people and other discrepancies – even in accordance with federal law – is unconstitutional.

As reported by Lifezette, 15 states have joined Ohio’s suit and 14 filed an amicus brief on Monday in support of Ohio’s challenge.

“Keeping the state’s voter registry up to date is crucial to ensuring the integrity of our elections,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, whose state joined the amicus brief, said in a prepared statement released Monday.

“The process used in West Virginia and Ohio is important to that effort and fully consistent with federal law,” Morrisey continued. “We support this effort to make sure our secretary of state has the tools he needs to maintain free and fair elections.”

Lifezette:

Election integrity watchdogs say the 6th District ruling flies in the face of clear federal law and previous decisions from other courts upholding the scrubbing of voter rolls as constitutional.

“We originally filed an amicus brief in favor of Ohio at the district court level,” Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told LifeZette. “At the time, and still today, we argue that the state is certainly justified in its actions and pursuing the case to [the Supreme Court] for [two] reasons,” he said.

First, “federal law expressly allows officials to consider voter inactivity when performing list maintenance actions.” Secondly, “other federal judges have confirmed that processes identical to Ohio’s are lawful.”

In September, the 6th Circuit Court disagreed with an Ohio court’s ruling that scrubbing voter registration roles to ensure accuracy and timeliness was an unconstitutional violation of the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA). The court came to this goofy decision after Left-wing activist groups argued that the scrubbing unfairly disadvantages ethnic minorities, poor people, and the homeless, which is complete nonsense.

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Yet, this is a fight that is worth having, and it now appears headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats pay lip service to the “free and fair voting” mantra, but what they’re really trying to do is make voter ID and confirmation so difficult or even non-existent that people who aren’t permitted legally to vote – illegal immigrants, felons, non-registrants – will be able to cast ballots like everyone else who complies with voting requirements.

The question for the high court is this: Do we want to be able to verify that citizens are who they say they are and are in compliance with voting requirements or not?