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EXCLUSIVE: Election Integrity Watchdog Skewers Michigan Gubernatorial Candidate For Allowing Illegals To Vote

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The Fair Election Fund, an election integrity watchdog organization, is launching a new effort to hold each secretary of state in battleground states accountable in how they oversee elections, starting with Michigan’s Jocelyn Benson, the Daily Caller has learned.

The Fair Election Fund is releasing a new report on Monday about Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson detailing her “performance administering recent elections with a focus on the 2024 campaign,” according to materials obtained by the Caller. The organization writes in its 51-page report, obtained by the Caller, that they are giving Benson a “D” grade, arguing that she undermined “the confidence of voters in Michigan” and even most recently admitted that at least 15 non-citizens voted in the previous election.

“Fair Election Fund’s analysis revealed numerous examples of Secretary Benson failing to enforce existing election laws. These actions resulted in lawsuits brought by election officials, concerned citizens, and a variety of organizations in the lead up to the 2024 election,” the report writes.

“The lawsuits challenging Secretary Benson’s actions routinely resulted in courts finding her actions were unlawful,” the report continues.

The press release on the report notes that the organization’s review comes after Benson and the state of Michigan released its own review of the 2024 election, finding that 15 non-citizens likely voted in November.

“This is a serious issue, one we must address with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer,” Benson, who recently announced a run for governor to succeed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, wrote in a press release.

The Fair Election Fund contrasts Benson’s report with her decision on Thursday to oppose the “the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act” which would require voters to prove that they are a U.S. citizen at the polls using their passport or birth certificate. The House of Representatives voted 220 to 208 in favor of the act on Thursday.

The organization also writes that under Benson’s watch, a Chinese national allegedly voted in the 2024 general election. Michigan officials brought charges against the Chinese national in October.

“Nine days before Election Day 2024, Haoxiang Gao — a 19-year-old Chinese national studying at the University of Michigan — registered to vote using his student ID, signed a document attesting that he was a United States citizen, and cast a ballot at an early voting site in Ann Arbor, Michigan,” the report reads. “Importantly, Gao was caught because he turned himself in by contacting the local clerk and asking for his ballot back — Benson’s voter-fraud defenses clearly failed.”

The watchdog also pointed to a judge’s decision to strike down Benson’s order instructing clerks to initially presume the validity of absentee ballot signatures. The Republican National Committee sued the Michigan secretary of state over the order.

Michigan Court of Claims Judge Christopher Yates struck down the guidance in June, writing that it was “a foul under Michigan law.”

“This was particularly egregious because this is not the first time Secretary Benson had attempted to create a presumption of validity for signatures — it was at minimum her third attempt. In 2020, she attempted to create the presumption by including it in her guidance to clerks, which ultimately resulted in a court ruling her actions were unlawful and violated the Michigan’s administrative procedure act,” the Fair Election Fund wrote in its report.

The Fair Election Fund also pointed to the state’s voter rolls and how they were maintained as a reason for their low grade for Benson.

“Benson admitted that in 2020 the Michigan voter rolls lacked ‘sufficient comprehensive efforts’ to maintain clean voter rolls, but only after she vigorously denied and fought the allegation that voter rolls were bloated,” the organization wrote.

The RNC sued Benson in March 2024, alleging that the state is failing to abide by the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA) requirement that voter rolls must keep “clean and accurate voter registration records.” The suit, however, was tossed out.

“While the RNC’s suit was dismissed on legal technicalities about whether they were ‘injured’ by the out-of-balance voter rolls and whether their claim was properly formatted, a conclusion the RNC is appealing, any objective comparison of Michigan’s voter roll maintenance to that of other states shows that Michigan can — and should — be more diligent in managing its voter rolls,” the Fair Election Fund writes.

“Benson admitted that in 2020 the Michigan voter rolls lacked ‘sufficient comprehensive efforts’ to maintain clean voter rolls, but only after she vigorously denied and fought the allegation that voter rolls were bloated. The court in the RNC’s suit granted her a temporary reprieve, but it remains to be seen whether she will again change her tune, do an about face, and announce that the voter rolls are bloated,” the report continues.

Benson’s office did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House correspondent. Follow Reagan on Twitter.

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EXCLUSIVE: RNC Election Integrity Unit Probes States To Keep Voter Rolls Clean

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The Republican National Committee is requesting all states provide the party information on how it maintains and cleans up its voter rolls, as a part of its latest election integrity initiative, the Daily Caller learned first.

The RNC’s election integrity unit is launching one of its largest ever records requests on Tuesday, sending requests for records to 48 state election officers and the city of Washington, D.C., an official shared with the Caller. The party is requesting that the states share all documents pertaining to how they maintain their voter registration lists, a hot issue that popped up towards the end of the 2024 presidential cycle.

By requesting the information, the RNC is trying to confirm that only eligible voters are registered to vote in their respective states across the country, an official told the Caller. The party is also requesting documents related to how each state removes voters who are no longer eligible, like non-citizens, criminals or those who have died.

“The RNC is once again taking action to make our elections more secure. Voters have a right to know that their states are properly maintaining voter rolls and quickly acting to clean voter registration lists by removing ineligible voters. If states unlawfully block our requests, or if we discover that states have failed to accurately maintain their voter rolls, the RNC stands ready to act,” chairman Michael Whatley told the Caller.

Under the National Voter Registration Act and state specific public records laws, states are required to  maintain and provide records to the public on how they are maintaining accurate lists of registered voters. The party did not request documents from North Dakota, which does not have a formal voter registration process, and Maryland.

During the 2024 election, some states made an effort to clean up their voter rolls but the Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued them to stop. After Secretary of State Wes Allen identified 3,251 registered voters on Alabama’s voter rolls that had been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, the DOJ alleged that it was too close to election day for the state to make sure a move. A similar situation occurred in Virginia.

Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the RNC filed more than 100 election integrity lawsuits across 20 states, according to the party’s website. Though it is an off-election year, the RNC is moving forward with its legal efforts, including building its staff and investigating matters that take more time, an official previously told the Caller.

“Just because the election happened and President Trump won doesn’t mean we stopped or we’ve accomplished some sort of goal or that we’ve reached the finish line — because we haven’t,” the official told the Caller.

Having really built up its election integrity department over the last presidential cycle, the party is positioned to make progress leading up to the 2026 midterms. Voter list maintenance is a priority for the party in the off years, the official previously explained.

“As we continue, we’re going to leverage all of those advantages to do more of what we did, which was build an amazing field program around this — which is the volunteer side, which is poll workers and poll watchers … and the volunteer attorneys,” the RNC official told the Caller. “We’re also going to continue our legal efforts. We are looking at new cases too.”

UPDATE (11:59 AM EST):

A previous version of this article stated that Maryland does not have a formal voter registration process. Maryland does have formal voter registration. The article has been updated accordingly.

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Reagan Reese

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Abortion, Mega-Donors, and Election Integrity: What to Know about Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race

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A judicial contest in the Badger State is heating up and drawing national attention. Following President Donald Trump’s sweeping electoral victory in November, the race for a seat on Wisconsin’s state supreme court is shaping up to be the first major test of conservative voter momentum since the presidential election. Already, the race has become the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history, with spending exceeding $59 million so far and expected to reach $100 million. Early voting is underway and will continue until March 30, and the election itself is on April 1.

In comments to The Washington Stand, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter urged Christians and conservatives in Wisconsin to vote in the crucial contest. “Turnout is generally low in these odd-year elections, even below midterm elections, so that’s why it’s important that Christians show up big-time — they can make the difference,” Carpenter said. An FRC Action Alert obtained by TWS and sent to voters in Wisconsin highlighted the significance of the judicial race:

“The decisions made by the Wisconsin Supreme Court have an immense impact on the work of the General Assembly, the integrity of Wisconsin’s elections, the unborn, and more. In 2023, liberal Janet Protasiewicz won an open seat, which created a 4-3 liberal majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This majority has already forced the redrawing of state legislative districts, reversed previous court rulings on unstaffed mail-in drop boxes, and is expected to rule soon on a pre-Roe v. Wade law concerning the protection of unborn lives.”

While the race is officially non-partisan, candidate Susan Crawford, an incumbent Wisconsin Circuit Court judge for Dane County, has aligned herself with the Democratic Party’s agenda, and candidate Brad Schimel, an incumbent Wisconsin Circuit Court judge for Waukesha and the state’s former attorney general, has aligned himself with the GOP’s agenda. So who are Crawford and Schimel, what do they stand for, and who is backing them?

Susan Crawford

The Democrat-aligned candidate for a seat on Wisconsin’s highest court began her legal career with Iowa’s Department of Justice, before moving to Wisconsin’s, where she worked closely with then-Attorney General Jim Doyle, who would later become the state’s Democratic governor. Under Doyle’s administration, Crawford moved around various state departments, including the Wisconsin Department of Administration and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections before eventually being elevated to the role of Doyle’s chief legal counsel. Following Doyle’s departure from office, Crawford worked as a litigator for various left-wing organizations and causes, particularly focusing on teachers unions and pro-abortion groups, including Planned Parenthood.

Crawford’s litigation history and positions on issues such as abortion have earned her the support of numerous Democrats and left-wing donors. She has so far been endorsed by former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), billionaire activist George Soros, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) President Mini Timmaraju, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin, the pro-abortion EMILY’s List, the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign, the atheist Freedom From Religion Foundation, the Wisconsin Democratic Party, and a host of labor unions. She has also received the tacit endorsement of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D), who has funded much of Crawford’s advertising campaign, alongside Soros.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America affiliate Women Speak Out PAC sent out fliers to Wisconsin voters warning of Crawford’s “extreme” pro-abortion positions. The mailer stated that Crawford “is an extreme abortion activist, not an impartial judge.” Noting the bevy of pro-abortion activists and organizations supporting Crawford’s candidacy, the mailer added, “Thousands of lives are at stake! Don’t let Susan Crawford use Wisconsin’s highest court to impose abortion on demand with no limits!”

Pro-abortion groups aren’t the only ones backing Crawford, though. According to The Federalist, an LGBT nightclub in Madison hosted a “Disney Princess Drag Bingo” fundraiser to benefit Crawford’s campaign. “Right now more than ever we need to make sure to elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court,” said a social media post by Brandon Rounds, a “drag queen” who goes by the stage name Bianca Lynn Breeze. He added, “This [is] the future of Wisconsin and the LGBTQ Community. Come support this cause, and let’s raise some money!”

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) also stomped for Crawford in an event featuring a vulgar, profane singer who identifies as transgender performing a song blaspheming God. A campaign ad aired by Schimel’s team also accuses Crawford of being backed by pro-transgender radicals. The ad warns that Crawford’s donors support allowing adult men who identify as transgender to use girls’ bathrooms at schools, biological boys to compete against girls in sports, and furnishing children with puberty blockers without parental consent. “That’s who Susan Crawford sides with, and I’m not okay with any of it,” the ad’s narrator ends.

Brad Schimel

The conservative Catholic candidate began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in the Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office, where he worked for 16 years before being elected district attorney. He was elected as Wisconsin’s attorney general in 2014 and, in that role, contested pro-abortion laws and court rulings and challenged the Obama-instituted Affordable Care Act. Republican Governor Scott Walker appointed Schimel to the Waukesha County Circuit Court in 2018.

While Crawford has earned the support of numerous Democrats and progressive groups, Schimel has been endorsed by Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), five Wisconsin Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Wisconsin Republican Party, the National Rifle Association (NRA) Political Victory Fund, and several high-profile allies of President Donald Trump, including billionaire Elon Musk, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, and the president’s son, Donald Trump, Jr. Musk has reportedly spent millions of dollars campaigning for Schimel. The Women Speak Out PAC and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America have both supported Schimel’s pro-life record, describing the candidate as someone “who respects life, the Constitution[,] and the rule of law.”

In a televised debate against Crawford last week, Schimel accused his opponent of disingenuously moderating her position on election integrity while campaigning. Schimel noted that a measure to enshrine voter identification requirements into the state constitution is also on the ballot April 1 and that he intends to vote for it, but pointed out that Crawford has challenged the state’s voter identification laws in the past. “Now she backs off from things she was once proud of, campaigning as a judge,” Schimel said.

Carpenter told The Washington Stand, “Wisconsin has some of the best — if not the best — voter I.D. laws in the nation and enshrining them in the state constitution is one way to ensure the state’s supreme court (which has had a liberal majority since Janet Protasiewicz won an open seat in 2023) can’t block them.”

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S.A. McCarthy

S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.

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Election Integrity Going Forward: We’ve made good progress in the last four years but….

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The worst development of the 2024 Presidential election, would be if pro-American citizens believe that we now have the election integrity issue under control, so that we can “rest on our laurels” — i.e., relax and forget about that concern.

THAT WOULD BE A CATASTROPHICALLY BAD CONCLUSION!

There were less (NOT none!) shenanigans in the 2024 election due to an extensive four year effort by thousands of citizens working hard to fix the numerous holes that exist in our election system. My rough estimate is that we’ve done about 40% of the job.

There are still major changes needed to be done by both States and the Federal Government. A primary objective of Federal regulations should be to standardize election requirements. To have 50 sets of rules for Federal elections is absurd.

It is child’s play to advance partisan election requirements. The objective of these recommendations is to bridge the currently expansive gap between Democrat and Republican proposals, as it’s imperative that we negotiate a middle ground that meets the pro-American objectives of both sides.

This list was put together by a team of independent experts, who volunteered their time to advance the cause of US election integrity. To date, they have generated multiple reports on that nationally important subject.

The items on this list are explained in more detail in Part 3 of their Election Integrity Recommendations Report:

  1. Election laws and regulations may not be changed within 120 days prior to that election.
  2. Primary elections will be closed.
  3. All votes, regardless of voting method, will comply with equal standards.
  4. There will be 1+ week advance in-person voting, at convenient locations for every precinct.
  5. Absentee voting will be allowed only in very specialized circumstances.
  6. All absentee ballots must be received by Election Day.
  7. Drop Boxes are prohibited.
  8. Ballot harvesting is prohibited.
  9. It is illegal for the state, county, or precinct to accept third-party election-related funds.
  10. The state will provide appropriate voter assistance where needed.
  11. Some type of legal ID is required when voting.
  12. It is illegal to have any ballot-related equipment accessible from the Internet.
  13. USPS will be fixed so that all ballots are delivered promptly and properly.
  14. Election day voting will end at 7 PM, local time.
  15. All absentee and early-voting ballots will be tabulated, and reported, first.
  16. Legal election observers will be allowed complete access to the election process.
  17. Fixing deficient ballots (or mail-in envelopes) will be restricted and must be fully transparent.
  18. All counties will be required to report their election results in a standardized format (e.g., CSV).
  19. Sample forensic audits will be required.
  20. Chain of custody must be maintained for all ballots for at least 22 months.
  21. Negative vote tabulations (e.g., to Edison) must have detailed transparent supporting data.
  22. All eligible US citizens will be automatically registered to vote.
  23. All states will be required to annually update their election rolls.
  24. Rules prohibiting non-citizens from voting will be tightened.
  25. A website and an 800 number will be set up for citizens to report possible improper election actions.
  26. National uniform requirements for state vote certification will be established.
  27. Citizens and state legislatures will have legal standing to file in-state election-related lawsuits.
  28. States will seriously consider eliminating Electronic Voting Machines.
  29. State recall rules (if and when a recall is allowed) must be consistent with state election rules.
  30. A bi-partisan Federal commission will be created in 2025 to research and issue a public report on the voting rules and regulations of European Countries, Canada, Mexico, and Australia.

The bottom line —

It’s more than disconcerting that there is no continuity in all fifty states, on ANY of the above items! How does that make any sense?

The US House GOP legislators are planning on new election integrity legislation. I will be submitting this to them. Please post any suggestions to improve on any of the above recommendations, in the comments below.

©2024 John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.

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U.N. Election Interference, Abortion Facilities Freak Out, and More: The 4 Stories You Missed This Week

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As the nation reacts to the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and looks forward to how the incoming Trump-Vance administration will shape up, numerous other important stories have slipped under the media’s radar.

On the eve of the 2024 election, the United Nations issued a report suggesting anything the U.N. deems “anti-LGBT rhetoric” — from political candidates and religious believers — be considered “hate speech” and to present LGBT-identifying people “as role models.” A Democratic campaign in the nation’s most significant swing state has sued to count the votes of unregistered voters. And late-term abortion facilities are worried that the 2024 election means they will soon have to close their doors.

1. Foreign Election Interference? U.N. Slams Politicians For ‘Hate Speech’ and ‘Gender Persecution’ on Eve of Election, Threatens Religious Liberty

The Biden administration praised a United Nations report dedicated to portraying the mainstream view of transgenderism as “hate speech” and encouraging social media platforms to silence politicians, and Christian believers, who espouse traditional Christian views of gender. It also asked for election observers dedicated to LGBTQ issues to patrol polling places.

“The human rights related to the electoral participation of LGBT persons may be violated in myriad ways,” including “bias-motivated … hate speech,” says the report.

“Intolerant rhetoric, based on animosity, fear-mongering and hate speech, may be directed at different targets … LGBT persons may be targeted specifically in campaign rhetoric, or hostility may be expressed in more general xenophobic terms,” says the report. “Discrimination and hostility are exacerbated when an LGBT individual is additionally targeted on the basis of other characteristics, such as race or religious beliefs, or as a migrant.”

President-elect Donald Trump leaned hard into advertisements showing that Kamala Harris supported taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for inmates and illegal immigrants. As a presidential hopeful in 2019, then-Senator Harris boasted that she changed the law to offer taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries to prison inmates when she was California attorney general. Former President Bill Clinton reportedly warned the Harris-Walz campaign of their vulnerability on the issue, and the Democratic polling firm Blueprint found no issue so motivated swing state voters as the notion that “Kamala Harris is focused more on cultural issues like transgender issues rather than helping the middle class.” Other candidates picked up the theme, and “Republicans spent $143 million on the transgender campaign to cast Democrats as out-of-touch” in the 2024 election, reported “60 Minutes.”

The U.N. objects when voters democratically make their voices heard on extremist transgender proposals via ballot initiatives. “Referendums, often with provocative or misleading questions, are one mechanism used to radicalize political discourse, or to distract voters from other pressing issues,” it says.

The U.N. seeks to portray all discussion of extreme transgenderism as beyond discussion. It describes even the use of “the term ‘gender ideology’ as ‘part of an anti-rights discourse by political and religious leaders seeking to limit the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse persons.’” The term “‘gender ideology’ has emerged as a dominant catch-all phrase that falsely implies a sinister attempt to undermine the social order by tampering with gender norms. It is used to oppose reproductive rights and the rights of LGBT people,” claims the report.

The U.N. calls on governments and social media companies to crack down on religious objections to radical LGBTQIA+ ideology. “In one submission, it was noted how anti-LGBT rhetoric was sometimes positioned as religious speech protected by freedom of expression and freedom of religion or belief. Profiling LGBT issues in campaigns, in order to generate a negative response and enhance political prospects, is often planned and purposeful.”

Among its 19 recommendations, the report calls on governments to:

  • “Promote the development and refinement of social media company policies on anti-discrimination”
  • “highlight the participation of LGBT persons in politics and to increase their perception as role models”
  • “educate the public on gender and sexual diversity and the human rights of LGBT persons”
  • Engage in “the proactive, prompt and efficient investigation and prosecution of hate crimes”
  • “Repeal laws against consensual same-sex conduct and review disenfranchisement based on criminal convictions”
  • “Adopt laws to guarantee legal recognition of gender identity on the basis of self-declaration”
  • “Develop guidelines and procedures for election day that promote the participation of LGBT persons, especially trans and non-binary persons”
  • “Support the capacity-building of civil society organizations focused on LGBT rights in election observation and advocacy”
  • “Support the capacity-building of international election observers on LGBT rights issues”
  • See “LGBT persons as a key component of international electoral assistance”

These proposals would at least smear all faith-based objections to extreme LGBTQ ideology as a form of hate speech. At worst, they would suppress the traditional, biblical doctrines of sexuality and gender held by nearly all the world’s Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians.

The report — titled “Electoral participation and protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity” and written by U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Graeme Reed — came out on July 15. Yet C-FAM noted that the United Nations insisted on addressing the issue on Monday, November 4, the day before the U.S. presidential election. How did the U.S. administration greet it?

“Your report is very timely, as it comes during the so-called global ‘year of elections’ including in my own country tomorrow,” said Dylan Lang, a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. “Sadly, the United States is not immune from homophobia and transphobia in election campaigns.” He also noted the administration’s record of appointing “[p]eople like Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, the first out Senate-confirmed Cabinet Secretary; Karine Jean-Pierre, the first openly queer White House Press Secretary; and Admiral Rachel Levine and Shawn Skelly, the highest-ranking openly transgender government officials in United States history.”

The timing seems anything but coincidental. Does this constitute foreign election interference?

2. Bob Casey’s Election Denial Would Count Ineligible Voters?

Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who has devolved from a “pro-life Democrat” to just another pro-abortion liberal, lost his reelection campaign to Republican Dave McCormick this year. While the election’s razor-thin margin triggers an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law, it is unlikely to change the state of the race. In some cases, McCormick has actually gained votes. But not winning a majority of legal votes seems to be no reason for Casey to relinquish his vice-grip on power.

As of this writing, Casey — who regularly chided President Trump to accept the outcome of an election in advance — has not only refused to concede; he’s waging a legal battle to count the “votes” of unregistered voters. Several election boards in the state have voted to count mail-in ballots that have no date, in violation of state law and a recent state Supreme Court ruling. That’s not enough for the Casey campaign, which is fighting a court battle against the Republican National Committee to count the “votes” of unregistered voters, unsigned ballots, and those who do not live in the county in which they voted.

The Casey for Senate campaign sent a letter to one board declaring that it “challenges the rejection of provisional ballots based solely on the Board’s staff’s failure to find voters’ names on registered-voter lists.” This is apparently what the Left means when it claims it seeks to defend “Our Democracy.”

“Casey and the Democrats are sore losers. And they’re disrespecting our democracy,” says a 30-second ad crafted by the Fair Election Fund. “Tell Bob Casey it’s time to concede.”

3. University Turns on Democratic Rep, Then Flip-Flops

As online videos of blue-haired TikTok users show, Democrats are not handling the results of the 2024 election well. But some on the Left have at least the good sense not to let their convictions get in the way of receiving vast tranches of taxpayer dollars.

Tufts University threatened to cut all ties with the office of Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) after he dared to question whether the Democratic Party had gone too far in embracing extreme transgender ideology during the 2024 election.

After the results came in, Moulton — who briefly ran as a presidential hopeful in the 2020 Democratic primaries — committed what a U.N. observer might deem “hate speech”: He affirmed biological differences between men and women. “I have two little girls, I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that,” said Moulton.

Tufts University decided not to wait for guidance from the U.N. It cut ties with Moulton’s office within 24 hours. “David Art, a Tufts professor who chairs the political science department, then called Moulton’s office Friday and threatened to block student internships” for students to work in Moulton’s office for credit, “according to internal Slack messages Moulton’s office shared with NBC News,” the outlet noted.

But backlash came swiftly, with calls to tax university endowments or take other legal measures against liberal universities. “We have reached out to Congressman Moulton’s office to clarify that we have not — and will not — limit internship opportunities with his office,” announced the university in a social media post on Tuesday.

“Imagine if one of these Tuft students actually wants to intern in a Republican office!” said Moulton.

4. Abortion Facilities Freak Out, Fear Going Out of Business

Among the constituencies that views itself as hardest hit by the 2024 presidential election is the abortion industry, especially those who carry out late-term abortions. But a fascinating, pre-election article in a liberal news outlet shows independent abortion facilities face their greatest economic squeeze, not from the incoming Trump administration, but from competitors in the abortion industry.

Shortly before the election, The New Republic carried an abortion industry fundraising letter posing as a news story warning that, even if Kamala Harris won the presidency, some abortionists who carry out third-trimester abortions may have to close their doors. Try to suppress your tears as you read:

“There are thought to be seven all-trimester clinics in the entire country. DuPont Clinic, an all-trimester provider in Washington, D.C., said it has lost more than $500,000 since July 1 after national groups put strict caps on patient funding. Karishma Oza, DuPont’s director of care coordination, said if that rate of loss continues and they don’t get support to close the funding gap, the clinic will have to close by the end of the year.

“‘Even though technically the clinic is a for-profit, we were never profitable,’ Oza said of the clinic, which opened in 2017. ‘But now with these cuts, we are going from pay period to pay period.’”

The story reveals what’s actually at play: a long-running turf war inside the abortion industry. Planned Parenthood has long sought to expand its abortion franchise locations, often in the same neighborhoods as non-affiliated abortion facilities.

“These clinics’ financial devastation is an upstream consequence of the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood capping patient funding at 30 percent of their bill instead of 50 percent,” notes the story. The story hopes to keep these abortionists in business at your expense. One of the late-term abortionists — Dr. Diane Horvath of Partners in Abortion Care in College Park, Maryland — “expressed optimism that Maryland lawmakers could increase the amount Medicaid health insurance reimburses providers for abortion.”

The Trump administration should move swiftly to defund all abortionists, including Planned Parenthood. To use the abortion industry’s logic: Taxpayers have no responsibility to carry abortionists before the point of financial viability.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

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Government Accountability Institute Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity

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It will take an act of God for a free and fair election.

We are under siege by a treasonous regime.

Peter Schweizer: GAI Study Details 50 Threats to Election Integrity

By: Breitbart News

It’s election season in America, and that means early voting, absentee ballots, and making sure your voter registration is current.

It’s also a test of how well each state maintains its voter rolls, its election systems, and the ways each state assures its elections are conducted and counted fairly.

A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) counts at least fifty threats to election integrity. The report, just out this week, categorizes fifty different threats to election integrity according to whether they concern the influence of “dark money,” lawfare operations, voter fraud, or election fraud. ​The report documents examples of each and offers potential solutions.

On the most recent episode of The Drill Down, Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers tackle the many ways elections can be rigged and, more importantly, how to make sure that it doesn’t happen.

Many states have been conscientious about cleaning their voter rolls — removing deceased voters, voters who have left the state, voters who are not U.S. citizens but who were registered through their driver’s license applications, and so forth.

States such as Michigan, however, have not been so fastidious, as the GAI report and the Drill Down hosts explain. “We always talk about this because this continues to be a problem in [battleground] states that are poised to matter,” says co-host Eric Eggers. “In Michigan, we’re seeing the number of counties with voter registration rates over 100 percent.”

Eggers wrote a book in 2018 called FRAUD that detailed many of the different types of election rigging and fixing that have taken place in U.S. history. That book, however, was published two years before the 2020 COVID pandemic, and rule changes made by some states that were ostensibly to make voting safer during the pandemic had the effect of making election security much harder to ensure.

GAI’s report covers how those rule changes, which many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election.

“We’re now seeing 53 counties in Michigan with more than 100% registration, which obviously means there are some names on there that don’t belong there,” Eggers says. He notes this isn’t always the fault of local or state election officials. Technically, it is the voter’s responsibility to call up their previous state’s registrar and ask to be removed from their voter rolls. “The book I wrote in 2018 came about because of a report [GAI] did that focused on duplication in voter rolls. We found more than two thousand instances of double voting in 2016 in Florida alone.” That report from 2017 is available on GAI’s website here.

GAI’s new report explains how those rule changes, which in many states have since been repealed or replaced, may have affected the 2020 outcome and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. The report divides the risks to our elections into five categories:

  • “Dark money” such as “Zuckerbucks” that is used for public election administration.
  • Lawfare operations that use taxpayer resources to “weaponize the justice system against challengers to incumbents.
  • “Get Out the Vote” operations that use nonprofit status to target voters from a preferred political party.
  • Vote Fraud by people who double-vote, fraudulently vote someone else’s ballot, or vote without being eligible to vote.
  • Election Fraud that seeks to fix elections by illegal activities that take place during the counting or collection of ballots.

Continued reading.

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Biden-Harris Admin Sues to Stop States from Removing Noncitizens from Voting Rolls

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The Biden-Harris administration has hauled two Republican states into court to prevent them from removing noncitizens from the voter rolls.

As part of last Friday’s news dump, the administration’s Department of Justice announced on October 11 that it had sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over an order from to purge “noncitizens” from the ballot.

On August 7, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) issued Executive Order 35, which called for the state to assure every registered voter is a legal U.S. citizen. “This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s an American and Virginian issue. Every legal vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes or inaccurate machines. In Virginia, we don’t play games and our model for election security is working,” said Youngkin at the time.

The Biden-Harris administration sued, claiming the action violates the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day Quiet Period Provision, which says states must curtail all such actions 90 days before an election. The DOJ filed a similar lawsuit on September 27 against the state of Alabama, after Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen (R) announced he had instituted a “process to remove noncitizens registered to vote in Alabama,” on August 13.

“Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in U.S. federal elections. That fact is not in dispute, and there is no evidence of widespread noncitizen voting in the United States. But that is not what this case is about,” claims the government’s legal complaint against Virginia.

Yet in announcing the Alabama lawsuit, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, “The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy.”

As this reporter has noted at The Washington Stand:

  • In Pennsylvania, Department of State official Jonathan Marks testified that noncitizens voluntarily told the state they had illegally voted 544 times in elections held between 2000 and 2017 — representing one of every 172,000 votes cast in the swing state.
  • An official review of Georgia’s voting rolls found 1,634 noncitizens had attempted to register to vote in the swing state between 1997 and 2002.
  • Virginia removed 5,556 noncitizens from its voting rolls between 2011 and 2017. Noncitizens had voted 7,474 times between 1988 and 2017, officials found.
  • North Carolina voter rolls showed 1,454 registered voters who “did not appear to be naturalized before Election Day 2014,” according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation, and “89 attempted to vote.”

The action is virtually unprecedented. The Obama administration sued to stop then-Florida Governor Rick Scott from removing noncitizens (at Judicial Watch’s behest) in 2012. Conversely, the Trump and George W. Bush administrations sued states or localities (Kentucky, New York City, Maine, Missouri) for failing to maintain accurate voting lists, including removing noncitizens and the deceased.

A majority of Americans worry that voter fraud will impact the 2024 election, according to a NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released earlier this month. Overall, 58% of Americans shared their concerns about election integrity in next month’s election, although that is driven by an overwhelming concern from Republicans. In all, 86% of Republicans, and 55% of registered Independents, say illegal voting could impact the election, as compared to 33% of Democrats (and just 29% of confirmed Kamala Harris voters).

Once cast, there is no way to differentiate which ballot belongs to a specific person; voter fraud is permanent. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has said the House must pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to address this “clear and very real threat” to election integrity.

“The reason our movement is called election integrity is not just based on policy and procedures, but also on the character of the individuals who comprise it,” said Election Integrity Network Executive Director Kerri Toloczko in a statement emailed to The Washington Stand.

“Thousands of patriotic Americans have given selflessly of their time to become experts on their states’ election codes,” said Toloczko in a separate instance. “They have tirelessly worked in the trenches on all the aspects of the election process, researching state and county voter rolls; finding thousands of ineligible registrations, mistakes, errors, duplicates, and the like; are volunteering to serve as poll workers and observers; and who love this country so much that they are willing to take the abuse leveled at them by the corporate media, the Democratic Party, state governments, and even the federal government.”

Nationwide, 47 close elections, including 29 ties, have already taken place in 2024, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

AUTHOR

Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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EXCLUSIVE: RNC Recruited Hundreds Of Thousands Of Volunteers, Thousands Of Lawyers To Ensure Election Integrity

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The Republican National Committee’s (RNC) director of election integrity and senior advisor for election integrity sent a memo Monday to RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump showing they have recruited hundreds of thousands of volunteers, thousands of attorneys and held thousands of trainings ahead of the November elections, the Daily Caller has first learned.

According to the memo from the RNC’s director of election integrity, Gineen Bresso, and senior advisor for election integrity, Josh Helton, the RNC has “devoted unprecedented resources” to making sure election integrity is in place across the country. The memo explains their achievements and what else they hope to accomplish before the elections. The memo also states that the RNC has hired over 115 paid staff to facilitate volunteer training at the state level.

As of Monday, there have been 219,712 total volunteers recruited, 2004 total trainings held, and 5,077 total attorneys recruited, according to the memo.

The memo also goes on to explain the field program, legal program and communications program in regards to election integrity.

“Our field program is designed to recruit and train poll watchers and recruit poll workers whom we then submit to relevant in-state credentialing authorities. We do this by holding continuous recruitment and training events both in-person and online. Combining these two populations, we are proud to share that we have recruited more than 200,000 volunteers in total nationwide,” the memo reads.

It then says that the field program is divided among 18 states, which are categorized as the following:

  • Presidential Battlegrounds: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
  • Reach States: Minnesota, New Hampshire, Virginia
  • Additional Key Senate States: Florida, Montana, Ohio, Texas
  • Additional Key Congressional States: California, New York
  • CD States (States with congressional districts that have their own electoral votes): Maine, Nebraska

READ THE MEMO HERE: 

(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) — … by Henry Rodgers

The legal program includes links to key ongoing cases across the U.S. as well as key victories. The RNC says they have engaged with 123 lawsuits in 26 states ahead of the election.

“We have a team of full-time lawyers on staff at RNC headquarters, who are in direct and constant contact with our retained in-state counsels across the country. Retaining in-state counsel gives us a key edge in litigation: our field lawyers are barred in their states, familiar with the situation on the ground, and provide tremendous value by managing stakeholders, identifying legal opportunities, and providing key information as legal issues that will decide this election evolve in key states,” the memo continues.

“Thus far in the cycle, we have engaged in 123 lawsuits in 26 states, 82 of which are in battleground states, designed to uphold basic election integrity safeguards and protect the system from Democrats devoted to creating election day chaos.”

As for the communications program, the election integrity team for the RNC believes the “centerpiece” of their communications strategy has been to generate local press coverage by holding “Protect The Vote Tour” events across the country, saying there have been over 20 stops on the tour so far and linking to local outlets covering the events.

“In addition to this local-press driven engagement, you have both conducted hundreds of interviews with national and local press to drive our election integrity messaging into every major media market in America. Specifically, Chairman Whatley and Co-Chair Trump have combined for 446 interviews since early March mentioning election integrity,” the memo states.

“The RNC’s election integrity efforts – both in the field and in the courtroom – are unprecedented. As voting begins, we feel confident in our program’s ability to see, engage, and resolve issues that arise. We have lawyers on call, volunteers trained, and a communications apparatus capable of delivering our message,” it concludes.

Whatley and Trump told the Caller:

“With less than five weeks until Election Day, we are confident in the capacity of President Trump and the RNC’s election integrity program to win court battles and put volunteers in the room as votes are being cast and counted. Our program is designed to deliver fair, accurate, secure, and transparent elections — the American people deserve nothing less.”

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Henry Rodgers

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Republicans Outpacing Dems in Voter Registrations, but Election Integrity Concerns Persist

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A crucial county in the swing state of Pennsylvania is flipping red for the first time in nearly 60 years, following a statewide and nationwide trend. Luzerne County, the most populous county in the Keystone State’s northeastern region, has officially registered more Republican voters than Democrats for the first time since 1970.

According to local WFMZ-TV 69 News, there are 87,415 registered Republicans in Luzerne County, against 87,332 registered Democrats, as of Monday morning. There are also 22,414 unaffiliated voters and 6,160 third-party voters. Luzerne had been a Democrat stronghold for decades, but former President Donald Trump won the county by eight points in 2020 and is poised to do so again by wider margins in November.

In comments to The Washington Stand, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter said, “Pennsylvania is known as the Keystone state, and that moniker could not be more fitting for its role in the 2024 election. Without the state’s 19 electoral college votes, the paths to 270 for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump get much more difficult.” He added, “But, with a closely divided Congress, all eyes are on the state’s contested Senate race and competitive House races as well.”

Carpenter continued, “Luzerne County is probably the swingiest county in arguably the most crucial swing state, and with the news that Republicans outnumber Democrats in this key county for the first time in decades, suddenly the prospect of turning this state red at the presidential level, defeating longtime Democrat Senator Bob Casey, Jr., and Democrat Representative Matt Cartwright, is a real possibility.”

Just 10 years ago in 2014, Democrats held a lead of 47,322 registered voters over Republicans, with 111,233 Democrats registered to vote and only 63,911 Republicans. That lead has increasingly diminished over the past decade and Republicans now lead by 83 registered voters. This trend is not isolated to Luzerne County. According to Early Vote Action founder Scott Presler, Democrats have also lost their lead in Pennsylvania’s Bucks County. In 2020, there were 201,254 Democrats registered in Bucks and 185,672 Republicans, giving the Democrats an advantage of 15,582 registered voters. Now, there are 199,359 Democrats registered and 201,479 Republicans, giving Republicans a lead of 2,120 registered voters. Last year, Pennsylvania’s Beaver County was also flipped red.

Other states, like Virginia, have seen similar shifts away from Democratic Party enthusiasm. According to former state senator Glen Sturtevant (R), early voting has seen a significant uptick from prior years, with roughly 30,000 more ballots having been cast early than the same time in 2020, with a heavy Republican lean. Virginia’s solidly-red Washington County has reportedly seen a 150% early voting increase compared to 2020, Bland County has seen a 200% increase, and Smith County has seen an even greater increase.

While some battleground states are more hotly-contested, Trump has made inroads among Democrats. In Michigan, the Democratic mayor of Hamtramck, the most densely-populated municipality in the state and the nation’s only majority-Muslim city, formally endorsed Trump over Harris. “President Trump and I may not agree on everything, but I know he is a man of principles,” said mayor Ameer Ghalib. “I believe he is the right choice for this critical time. I’ll not regret my decision no matter what the outcome would be, and I’m ready to face the consequences.”

Additionally, a poll of Teamsters Union members showed that Trump is leading among the historically-Democrat-aligned voting bloc, especially in battleground states. Trump is leading Harris among the Teamsters by 18.6 points in Arizona, 15.6 points in Georgia, 33.9 points in Pennsylvania, nearly 30 points in Michigan, and 16.5 points in Wisconsin. This follows the Teamsters Union refusing to endorse Harris — the first time in decades that the union hasn’t endorsed a Democrat — after internal polling revealed that nearly 60% of union members supported Trump’s reelection campaign.

However, the Virginia Project, a voter outreach and election integrity organization, warned that polling data and voter registrations need to be accompanied by election integrity safeguards and lawyers. “Pennsylvania isn’t going to stop a 3AM ballot dump with voter registrations. The longer the question remains open and nobody can proffer a responsible party with a real plan, the more disturbing the situation is and the less likely we will carry that state,” the group warned.

The Virginia Project asked, “When Philly illegally kicks out observers, covers the windows of the polling place, and stuffs the ballot box, who exactly is going to do what exactly to stop it?” Pointing to the election integrity measures used in Virginia elections, the organization explained, “Here’s what would happen in Virginia. An observer would see something improper, and would immediately call the legal hotline. Inside 15 minutes lawyers would strike like a bolt of lightning and put everything on hold until a court can decide.”

AUTHOR

S.A. McCarthy

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Majority of Americans Favor Mass Deportation, but Some Dems Continue to Vote Against It

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Some have estimated as many as 24 million noncitizens are roaming the country. Under the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies, millions upon millions of illegal immigrants have flooded into America. And reportedly, anywhere from 1.5 to 2.7 million of them may be voting in the upcoming presidential election. While Americans are currently divided on many issues, a recent poll helped demonstrate how many citizens are willing to come together on the issue of immigration.

According to the Scripps News/Ipsos survey, in which 1,027 Americans adults were surveyed between September 13 and 15, 54% of the respondents support the GOP’s presidential candidate Donald Trump’s policy of a mass deportation of illegal immigrants. Of this percentage, 86% were Republican, 58% were Independent, and 25% were Democrat — all of whom noted they “somewhat” or “strongly” agree with Trump’s proposal.

At least 39% of the respondents believed immigration was the top issue concerning the upcoming election. And as The Post Millennial reported, “Approximately one-third of Americans say securing the US-Mexico border should be the nation’s top priority, followed by a pathway to citizenship for those who qualify (20 percent), deporting those here illegally (18 percent), and ensuring opportunities remain for those trying to legally enter the country (18 percent).”

The poll also revealed some of why those surveyed agreed with the mass deportation policy. As the data proved, it has much to do with the concern that illegal immigrants serve as a threat to election integrity, with 83% of Republicans, 46% of Independents, and 24% of Democrats feeling this way. Yet, Democratic lawmakers continue to vote against policies that would address these concerns.

For instance, on Wednesday, 158 “House Democrats voted against a bill that would deport illegal immigrants convicted of a sexual offense or conspiracy to commit such a crime.” The Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act ultimately passed 266 to 158 with full Republican support as well as the support from 51 Democrats. But in response to those who voted against the bill, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) asserted, “[W]e’re talking about illegals who are here who are committing domestic violence, rape and murder on women and children — they’ve gotta go. They shouldn’t be allowed into our country.”

But with ongoing turmoil over bills designed to protect U.S. citizens from illegal immigration, where do objections to protective measures lead us? As Family Research Council President Tony Perkins pointed out on Wednesday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” the Biden-Harris administration’s border policies have had “tragic consequences” — some of which include the numerous Americans murdered by illegal immigrants.

In America, Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) insisted on Wednesday’s episode, “[Y]ou are less safe than you were a year ago. You’re … less safe than you were two years ago, and definitely than you were three years ago,” all due to “this administration’s policies.” Perkins agreed, adding, “We really don’t know the number of illegal aliens that are in the country,” with the number ranging “from 12 million to 18 million.” But while “not all of them are violent criminals … there are enough to make Americans” feel “insecure” and that “their safety [is] at risk.”

Brecheen agreed, “[T]hese people have to be removed from this country.” America “has to send a signal to people that you cannot come into this country and break the law and expect that you would be first in line” to receiving American benefits. But because this is happening, Brecheen underscored, “[D]eportation is top and center for many of us.”

“[T]he law is the law,” Perkins emphasized, which he felt leads to a conversation occurring within the church of whether “it’s not really the Christian thing to do to uproot these people who have been here in this country and deport them.” But according to Brecheen, this mindset isn’t based on the Bible. Rather, “taking care of the foreigner and sojourner [is] an individual mandate. But there’s also a mandate that you obey the laws of the land.” And in the case of illegal immigration, “we’ve got people who have broken the laws of the land.”

Brecheen emphasized that the problem is rooted in instances where people break the law and do not face consequences, because “it creates the atmosphere where lawlessness is compounded.” Given this, “we’ve got to make sure that the rule of law is upheld in the United States.” Perkins noted how the two recent assassination attempts on Trump “speaks to violence, turbulence, an unsettled country, [and] that lawlessness is manifesting itself at every level.”

Brecheen pressed further, warning that “when we don’t have consequences for infractions … we’re inviting more infractions into a greater level, a greater degree.” Especially in the current administration, it’s clear they’re “time and time again deviating from biblical truths.” But the real question, he insisted, is “where does it end?”

Ultimately, Brecheen concluded, “It’s constitutional in regard to illegal immigration that we are to protect this nation … against an invasion.” And given the quantity of those coming into this country, he added, it “is an invasion.”

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

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1.5 to 2.7 Million Illegals Likely to Vote in 2024: Experts

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Do you plan to vote this November? You’re not alone. Experts say somewhere between 1.5 million and 2.7 million illegal immigrants are likely to cast a ballot in the 2024 elections, impacting races from dog catcher to president of the United States.

The historic flood of illegal immigrants during the Biden-Harris administration has also padded voter rolls, thanks to controversial federal legislation from the Clinton administration. If illegal immigrants and other noncitizens vote in the same proportion as in previous U.S. elections, the number will range anywhere from one-and-a-half to nearly three million votes.

“A 2014 academic journal found that 6.4% of noncitizens voted in 2008,” Kerri Toloczko, executive director of Election Integrity Network and senior advisor to the Only Citizens Vote Coalition, told The Washington Stand. “There are about 24 million noncitizens in the U.S. right now. If they voted only at the same rate of 6.4% this year as they did in 2008, they would account for 1.5 million votes.”

That ponderous number of unlawful votes may just be the tip of the iceberg. “Based on the increased noncitizen activity at state DMVs, and the work of left-wing voter registration activists, this 6.4% could be much higher than it was in 2008. We could be looking at over two million unlawful noncitizen votes,” she told TWS.

Her estimate largely dovetails with a previous study showing 2.7 million noncitizens are likely to vote in the 2024 election.

The author of that study — James D. Agresti, the president and cofounder of the think tank and fact-check website Just Facts — confirmed to TWS that “the most comprehensive, transparent, and rigorous study on this matter found that about two to five million noncitizens are illegally registered to vote, and aggressive attempts to debunk the study have completely failed.”

Opponents of election integrity laws minimize the problem by claiming it is already illegal for foreigners to vote in U.S. elections. But, unlike other purported threats, the problem truly holds the power to undermine our democracy, election experts say. “The Left likes to use phrases like, ‘It’s not that widespread,’” Toloczko observed. “But how many does a moral relativist uninterested in upholding the law think is too many?” And “if every unlawful vote cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen voter, how many of those are acceptable?”

Would two million unlawful votes be “enough to possibly make a difference in House and Senate races, and even the presidency?” she asked. “You bet.”

Agresti noted that “the claim that noncitizens rarely vote is based on studies with absurd methodologies. For example, they measure the prevalence of this crime by merely counting convictions for it.”

This is “ridiculous,” Agresti told TWS. He compared the statistic to measuring the number of Americans who illegally use narcotics “based on guilty pleas and verdicts. The same applies to any other law that isn’t strictly enforced, like driving above the speed limit.”

The House of Representatives released a 22-page report in June documenting illegal immigrants voting in the United States. Under current law, 17 cities in California, Maryland, and Vermont as well as the District of Columbia allow noncitizens to vote. While the noncitizens are supposed to vote only in local elections, “mistakes” have been reported.

Toloczko highlighted documented cases of foreigners illegally voting in U.S. elections. “The federal government recently indicted a group of noncitizens from 15 different countries on federal voting charges. Texas recently purged 6,500 noncitizens from its voter rolls — 30% of whom had voting records,” Toloczko told TWS, expressing similar thoughts in The Stream.

Illegal immigration impacts U.S. elections in a second way: Counting noncitizens in the U.S. Census redistributes eight congressional seats and, with them, their Electoral College votes which elect the president, a team of immigration scholars found. America’s teeming illegal immigrant population gives additional congressional seats to California (3), Texas (2), New York, New Jersey, and Florida (one each); and it takes seats away from Alabama, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, Ohio, Rhode Island, and West Virginia (one seat each). Illegal immigrants alone transfer one seat each from Ohio, Alabama, and Minnesota to California, Texas, and New York, the study from the Center for Immigration Studies found.

House Republicans have sought to address the problem by passing a number of border security and election integrity measures, including the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 8281), which would require local election officials to verify someone’s U.S. citizenship status before registering that person to vote. It passed the House of Representatives in July.

“States are prohibited from requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship” thanks to court interpretations of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) told Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria” on Tuesday. “Democrats who vote against that show what they are really up to: that they want noncitizens to vote and rig our elections.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has called the bill’s passage “a generation-defining moment.” Johnson favors attaching the election integrity bill to a must-pass continuing resolution to keep the government funded past the end of the fiscal year on September 30 and avert a government shutdown. Yet Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has declared the bill dead on arrival in the Senate. “What is he afraid of?” asked Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) on Tuesday morning on Fox Business.

The underlying numbers behind the 1.5 to 2.7 million noncitizen vote count may undercount the extent of the problem. Yale University researchers estimated the size of the U.S. illegal immigrant population at 16 to 29 million in 2016, before the Biden-Harris administration enacted border policies that saw record-breaking levels of illegal immigration every year to date. While administration officials channeled illegal immigration into ports of entry and other means such as the CBP One app which reduce the number of entries on paper during this presidential election year, experts say the number of overall immigrants entering the U.S. has remained the same or increased.

Americans have increasingly groaned under the strain of illegal immigration. Video footage has shown members of the Venezuelan transnational criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TdA) rampaging through the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, where they reportedly terrorize and extort residents of multiple apartment buildings.

The Biden-Harris administration has placed roughly 20,000 Haitians in the town of Springfield, Ohio — a town of 58,000 Americans — where they have proceeded to drive up housing costs, underbid American workers for jobs, and engage in a spree of car crashes. The problem has reportedly spread to the nearby town of Tremont. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) recently sent the city millions of dollars and deployed a team of Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers to get the deadly traffic problem under control. Although the legacy media attempted to pin a large reported number of bomb threats against Springfield schools and other institutions on J.D. Vance and other politicians who have highlighted the city’s plight, DeWine verified that officials determined that all 33 threats were “hoaxes” that originated overseas.

Mayors of Aurora and Tremont say they were not consulted about the resettling of these foreigners in their cities.

A Axios/Harris poll released in April showed a majority of Americans support the mass deportation of illegal immigrants back to their countries of origin. Overall, 51% of U.S. citizens back the Trump-endorsed policy of deportations, including about half (46%) of all registered Independents. A surprisingly high 42% of Democrats support mass deportations, likely fueled by the increasing number of African Americans — who have voted as high as nine out of 10 for the Democratic presidential candidate — who see their neighborhoods impacted by a surging illegal immigrant population, especially in sanctuary cities. Their cities’ Democratic leaders often divert taxpayer funds, and deny taxpayer-funded services to U.S. citizens, in favor of illegal immigrants.

As the government funding drama plays out in the U.S. Capitol, America First Legal has filed numerous lawsuits contending that two provisions of federal law — 8 U.S.C. § 1373(c) and 8 U.S.C. § 1644 — already allow state and local officials to obtain information about applicants’ citizenship status before registration.

“The reason why [Democrats have] got that wide-open border is so they can get as many illegals in here and get them to vote, so they can dominate the American vote,” Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) told “Washington Watch” in July. “They want to dominate the House, the Senate, and the White House.”

“They want to get elected by any means necessary,” Ezell said.

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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‘Sorely Needed’: Speaker Johnson May Attach SAVE Act to Government Funding Bill

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Congressional Republicans say House leadership will likely attach a bill to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in U.S. elections — a bill Republicans say is necessary for the “protection of citizenship and our national sovereignty”— to a must-pass government funding bill as a precondition for avoiding a government shutdown.

Multiple sources indicate Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) will add the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to a continuing resolution, or CR, which Congress needs to pass before October 1 to avert a government shutdown.

“I suspect you’re going to see a CR with the SAVE Act coming up in the next two to three weeks,” predicted Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) on “Washington Watch” Wednesday. “What the Speaker has discussed with us is a six-month continuing resolution. You and I both don’t love that,” Perry told the program’s guest host, former Congressman Jody Hice, “but that gets us into the Trump administration, God willing, if he were to prevail. But included with that would be attaching to that the SAVE Act, which requires states then to verify citizenship of every one of their voters. And that’s something that is sorely needed.”

Congressional Republicans see the bill as necessary to fix a loophole in federal law that may incentivize illegal immigrants to vote in U.S. elections. The SAVE Act amends the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (sometimes called the “Motor-Voter Law”), which stipulates that anyone who applies for a driver’s license must be offered the opportunity to register to vote. The form asks applicants to certify they are U.S. citizens, but a court ruling prevents officials from taking any steps to verify the applicant’s citizenship. The SAVE Act would require officials to assure the would-be voter’s U.S. citizenship before an illegal ballot gets cast.

Democrats object to the law as unnecessary and redundant, saying existing laws already bar non-citizens from voting. But Republicans say the current landscape does nothing to prevent illegal immigrants from voting. “Of course, it’s already illegal for people that are here illegally to vote, but that’s not to say it doesn’t happen, because no one is enforcing it,” explained Perry. “This would require states to actually enforce the law.” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) wrote in an op-ed for Breitbart that Congress finds itself “in the historically unique position” of being able to leverage government funding for election security.

“Asking for proof of citizenship should not bother anyone. That’s the only way that we can protect the integrity of citizenship and the integrity of our elections,” Ken Blackwell, senior fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at Family Research Council, told Hice later in the show. “This is a situation that cries out for more … protection of citizenship and our national sovereignty.”

With just two months before the 2024 presidential election, Republicans see the election integrity bill, which has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, as pivotal. Speaker Johnson called the bill “a generation-defining moment” in U.S. civic history. “We see it as a potential game changer,” said Perry. “We just want our elections to be fair, but determined by American citizens. And the fact that the Democrats oppose that should tell you everything you need to know.” The bill has the support of conservatives in both houses of Congress. “This is where the House Freedom Caucus and I stand: While we oppose passing any CR, if it’s forced upon us, we will fight to ensure the SAVE Act is part of the deal. It’s time to hold the line and demand accountability, because secure elections should be non-negotiable,” said Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) in a statement emailed to The Washington Stand.

As concerns over illegal voting take center stage in Washington, the issue is winding its way through the nation’s courts, as well. On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) sued Bexar County after its commissioners pressed forward with a plan to send mail-in ballots to all county residents, regardless of their eligibility or citizenship status. “This program is completely unlawful and potentially invites election fraud,” said Paxton. The move comes after Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) removed more than 1.1 million ineligible registrants — including 7,000 non-citizens — from the state’s voting rolls.

In neighboring Arizona, America First Legal sued all 15 county recorders for failing to remove illegal and ineligible voters from the system ahead of November’s election. The lawsuit contends that two provisions of federal law — 8 U.S.C. § 1373(c) and 8 U.S.C. § 1644 — allow state and local officials to obtain information about applicants’ citizenship, an authority which they have failed to use. “America First Legal will do everything in its power to fight mass illegal alien voting and foreign interference in our democracy,” said Stephen Miller, a former Trump aide.

The road ahead at the federal level is not without obstacles. Some in Washington oppose attaching the SAVE Act to the CR, and many House conservatives have expressed displeasure that the House must pass a CR rather than legislating discreet bills for each area of government. Two congressmen — Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) — have announced they will vote against the bill. Perry said the speaker’s solution is the most practical response. “We’re going to be left with a couple options: a continuing resolution, which keeps spending the same amount of money [and the] same policy until the deal is worked out, or an omnibus, which would be terribly written in Chuck Schumer’s office by his staff, spending wildly” and codifying “terrible policy,” said Perry.

Democrats in both chambers have gone all-out to oppose the measure. A meager five House Democrats voted for the SAVE Act in July, with 198 opposed. (The Democrats who voted in favor were Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez Jr. of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington.)

Polls show the American people believe the Republicans have the better part of the argument. A whopping 87% of Americans support the bill’s goal of assuring only Americans vote in American elections. “I’m for those wanting a better life to get the opportunity to become a citizen the right way. But if you’re not American, you shouldn’t be voting. Simple as that,” said NFL great Brett Favre.

Despite overwhelming public support, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has pronounced any funding measure including the SAVE Act “dead on arrival.” And Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) called the bill’s election integrity measures “outrageous partisan poison pills.”

“Chuck Schumer might say it’s dead on arrival,” but if the House passes the election integrity bill as part of the must-pass bill, the Democrat is “going to have no choice to either accept that, or he will be responsible for shutting down the government,” Perry told Hice. “If the government shuts down over the Democrats’ unholy obsession with noncitizen voting, that’s on Chuck Schumer,” said Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) in a social media post. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) made similar comments Wednesday during comments to the Republican Jewish Coalition.

“Sure would be a strange reason to shut down the U.S. government,” noted Elon Musk, who became a legal immigrant to the United States in 2002.

But Blackwell does not believe the bill will cause a stand-off in Congress. “By actually shining some spotlight on this challenge, I think that we can we can pull the curtain down on this illegal action,” said Blackwell, who oversaw Ohio’s elections as Secretary of State (1999-2007).

Nothing is more important to American political life than safeguarding the integrity of the ballot, he said. “Every vote counts. And so protecting the integrity of the system by making sure that there’s no illegal vote that cancels out a legal ballot is prudent. We cannot sit on the sidelines. Each citizen of the United States has to demand this integrity, has to demand this sort of transparency, has to get involved. And we must continue to make sure that we have as many people as observers and workers at the polling places as possible at the precinct level.”

“We should not have a polling place in America that is not covered by two sets of eyes, bipartisan sets of eyes, so that we have transparency. So, make sure you go to your local party, go to your local county office, and ask how you can become involved as a worker or an observer,” he exhorted.

“We cannot let darkness prevail in this election,” Blackwell concluded.

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Ben Johnson

Ben Johnson is senior reporter and editor at The Washington Stand.

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Democrat Party Sues Georgia Election Board to Block Election Integrity Measures

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The Democrats cannot win in free and fair elections. Hence….

DNC, Ga. Democratic Party Sue State Election Board

By Jim Thomas, Newsmax, 26 August 2024 09:29 PM EDT

The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia have sued the Republican-led Georgia State Election Board.

Kyle Griffin, executive producer of MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” posted on X: “The DNC and the Democratic Party of Georgia has sued the Republican-controlled Georgia State Election Board to prevent [former President Donald] Trump’s allies on the Board from blocking the certification of the 2024 election.

“The DNC says the lawsuit is to ensure that Georgia’s State Election Board ‘doesn’t turn a straightforward and mandatory act of certification into a broad license for any county board member to try and delay or block the certification of election results and the will of Georgia voters.’”

Georgia’s State Election Board recently adopted a new rule that will allow county election boards to request additional information and conduct inquiries before certifying election results, CNN reported.

The change, which took effect 91 days before the 2024 presidential election, has raised concerns among critics, including the board’s only Democrat, Sara Tindall Ghazal, who argue the rule could lead to delays in certifying results in the upcoming general election.

Georgia’s board, which has no direct role in determining election results, writes rules to ensure that elections run smoothly and hears complaints about alleged violations. Democrats and voting rights groups fear that a recently cemented majority of Republican partisans on the board could push the limits of state law with rules hindering the effective administration of elections and the swift certification of results.

Democrats made important gains in the 2020 election cycle in Georgia, winning two key U.S. Senate seats in addition to President Joe Biden’s narrow victory. However, state government remains dominated by Republicans — with a significant faction loyal to Trump.

The DNC lawsuit underscores the deep distrust between the two parties over election integrity and the certification process.

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Election Skepticism Rises as Immigrants Obtain Citizenship at ‘Fastest Pace in Decades’

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“[J]ust three years ago,” Fox News’s Michael Lee reported, “it took roughly 11.5 months for authorities to process a naturalization application.” Today, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USIS) is averaging around 4.9 months, which Lee noted is the “fastest [processing] pace in decades.” And experts are pointing to President Joe Biden as the reason.

Under this White House, over 3.3 million immigrants have been able to obtain U.S. citizenship. There are many factors, as a report by The New York Times pointed out, that help explain these numbers. To start, the Biden administration shortened the naturalization application, reducing it from 20 pages to 14. And although the president raised the application fee from $640 to $710, he “made it easier for low-income applicants to qualify for a discount.” In fact, there are numerous ways the current administration alleviated the process to gaining American citizenship. But the major concern for countless experts, lawmakers, and citizens is how this may affect the upcoming presidential election.

As some have pointed out, the vast number of “newly minted American citizens” could play a major role in potentially “helping sway the result of November’s election.” Chief executive of the company Boundless, Xiao Wang, shared with the NYT, “The surge in naturalization efficiency isn’t just about clearing backlogs; it’s potentially reshaping the electorate, merely months before a pivotal election.” He added, “Every citizenship application could be a vote that decides Senate seats or even the presidency.”

IA group of Republican attorneys general share this concern. In an attempt to secure election integrity, The Washington Times wrote that a “41-page complaint was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas,” where “Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, Mississippi, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma joined Montana in bringing the lawsuit.” The complaint is centered on Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which “directs agencies to facilitate voting registration and aid voters in learning how to vote by mail, among other ways to cast ballots.”

The lawsuit also accuses the Department of Justice of “registering imprisoned felons to vote.” As Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) stated, “Fair elections are an essential part of our country’s Republic. … I will not stand by while the Biden-Harris administration attempts to shamelessly garner votes by employing its own agencies to register voters and disregard states’ own voter registration systems, putting the integrity of our elections at risk.”

The states explained in more detail:

“Through Executive Order 14019 … President Biden has sought to convert the federal bureaucracy into a voter registration organization and to turn every interaction between a federal bureaucrat and a member of the public into a voter registration pitch. That exceeds any authority executive entities have under federal law, violates the Constitution, threatens States’ attempt to regulate voter registration, and thus ultimately undermines the voter registration systems set up by the States.”

Matt Carpenter, director of Family Research Council Action, explained to The Washington Stand that “unfortunately, with the 2024 presidential election just 80 days away, there are incentives for the Biden-Harris administration to pad voter rolls with as many friendly voters to their campaign as possible.” As such, he added, “There is good reason for Republican attorneys general to investigate the Biden-Harris admin’s implementation of EO 14019.”

Ultimately, Carpenter asserted, “Federal funds are not to be used for partisan electioneering.” But it seems “there are suspicions that the administration has partnered with partisan nongovernment organizations to do just that.” In his analysis, Carpenter explained how “it sure looks as though we have a cynical administration that cares more about clinging to power than it does about avoiding the appearance of impropriety as it relates to the misuse of federal funds for electioneering.” Even so, Carpenter believes there is a proper biblical response.

“Christians should avoid the temptation to similarly fall into cynicism, even if you think the elections won’t be entirely fair,” he said. So what can we do? As Carpenter put it, we can vote. “Tell your like-minded family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, small group members, whoever, to vote.” He urged, “This is a crucial election in so many ways. Future generations are depending on us to leave no stone unturned.” No matter what the other side does this election season, “We cannot give into cynicism or complacency.”

Instead, he insisted, “You can sign up to be a poll worker, you can knock on doors and make calls, you can donate, there is so much you can do” to aid in the outcome of the election. “But as believers,” he concluded, “we know, above all else, that the Lord will hear our prayers, forgive our sin, and heal our land, when we humble ourselves, seek the Lord, and pray.”

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Sarah Holliday

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DMV Loophole Could Lead to Millions of Illegal Votes, Expert Warns

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In the aftermath of an Arizona federal appeals court ruling last week that will allow individuals to vote without proof of citizenship, an election integrity expert is raising the alarm over the possibility of millions of illegal votes being cast due to a loophole in how individuals are registered to vote at their local DMV with the presidential election just three months away.

On Monday, Cleta Mitchell, founder of the Election Integrity Network, joined “Washington Watch” to analyze problems with verifying the citizenship of registered voters, starting with the Arizona court ruling.

“[P]oor Arizona, they’ve been trying for 20 years to be able to get documentary proof of citizenship in order to be able to register to vote in that state, literally starting in the early 2000s,” she lamented. “There is a statute in Arizona that you have to provide proof of citizenship when you register to vote. And they asked the Election Assistance Commission about a decade ago to add that to the federal form for use in Arizona, because Congress … 31 years ago passed what we call the ‘Motor Voter’ bill that requires every state to accept and use this federal form for voter registration. Arizona wanted to make sure that the form was consistent with its state law requiring documentary proof of citizenship.”

“However,” Mitchell continued, “the Supreme Court of the United States said that the Election Assistance Commission didn’t have the authority to do that because Congress didn’t put it in the language of the statute. So what the Supreme Court ordered as a remedy 11 years ago was for Arizona to be able to have two separate voter rolls. If you want to vote in state elections, you have to provide documentary proof of citizenship. But if you don’t have documentary proof of citizenship, guess what? You can register to vote on the federal only list, which means if you don’t prove citizenship, you can get a ballot for president, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House.”

Despite the appeals court setback, Mitchell expressed hope that the Arizona legislature will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court due to gravity of the situation. “I hope that they’ll move for emergency consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. And I wish that the Trump campaign would also weigh in, and a lot of people would weigh in and ask the court to keep Arizona from sending ballots to people who are not confirmed to be U.S. citizens. If you want to pick the number one thing I’m worried about for 2024, that’s it. And it’s not just in Arizona. It’s everywhere.”

In response to Democratic lawmakers who say that illegal voting is “not happening,” Mitchell detailed how non-citizens have gained access to ballots over the last two decades.

“[W]e know that it’s an issue because we know that there are non-citizens on the voter rolls,” she pointed out. “[We] have to remember that this has happened gradually. And the laws regarding the Help America Vote Act passed in 2002 says that every state … must verify identity and residency of a voter before adding that person to the voter rolls. What’s missing from that list? Citizenship, because nobody could envision a time when we would have massive disregard of our immigration laws by the existing administration. And so what we have is this massive number of illegals coming across the border. We have laws on the books against that. They’re here illegally. But somehow we’re supposed to imagine that the same people who came across the border illegally are somehow going to say, ‘Oh, but it’s illegal for me to register and vote?’”

Mitchell further emphasized how easy it is for illegal immigrants and non-citizens to get registered to vote.

“The two things that the federal law requires is confirming identity and residency for [voter] registration,” she explained. “Well, guess what? You know how you do that under this federal law? Driver’s license number and social security number. Every state issues driver’s licenses to non-citizens [living in the U.S. legally]. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia issue driver’s licenses to illegals. So what does that verify? [It] doesn’t verify citizenship. And the Social Security Administration issues Social Security numbers to non-citizens because they are supposed to be working with work permits if they’re here illegally. … That’s where they’re going to get their driver’s licenses and ID cards … and then they are getting registered to vote. And once they get on those rolls, you have no way of knowing whether they’re voting.”

“They know,” remarked guest host and former Congressman Jody Hice. “That’s why the borders have been wide open for the last three and a half years.” “They do know,” Mitchell nodded in agreement. One recent study found that up to 2.7 million non-citizens are likely to cast illegal votes in the November elections.

Mitchell pointed to the Only Citizens Vote Coalition as a way for the public to combat illegal voter registration. “We have formed the Only Citizens Vote Coalition. … We send out a weekly newsletter. We’ve created a national working group on Only Citizens Vote that meets by Zoom every Thursday at 11 a.m. EST. It’s free. We’re trying to get people activated. We’ve created toolkits and resources, and we’re going to have a national week in September to shine a bright light on the national online Only Citizens Vote Week. … We have got to create essentially a national citizens watch at our local DMV.”

Mitchell went on to put into perspective the outsize influence that non-citizens could have in the November elections.

“[T]here is a website called Justfacts.com [which] says on a very conservative basis that 10 to 12% of those who are in this country are non-citizens, and that includes both people here legally and illegally, because we have many, many people who are here legally [student visas, work visas, permanent residents with green cards], plus all these illegals. … The Department of Homeland Security says they don’t know how many there are, but [some] estimate 22 million. If 10% of those 22 million actually register and vote … how many does it take to flip Utah, which has mainly mail-in voting? How many does it take to flip North Dakota, which doesn’t have voter registration? People just show up and vote. And how are they supposed to deal with that?”

Mitchell concluded by encouraging conservatives to get involved at the local level by serving as poll watchers and election volunteers and turning out friends and family to vote in large numbers.

“[W]e have so many people around the country who’ve worked so hard on trying to clean voter rolls,” she highlighted. “I do urge people to sign up and be a poll observer and sign up to be an election worker. … I really do believe that it is going to take all of us getting everyone we know to vote. … I think [Trump] has to win by such big margins that they can’t manipulate the outcome. [T]he closer it is, the harder it is for us to overcome the shenanigans. But number one … let’s all work hard at getting our friends and neighbors and family members to register, to vote, and to look around and basically create a national neighborhood watch. Do we see pockets of illegals registering at driver’s license agencies? Raise the stink about it in your local communities.”

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Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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