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April 13, 2020-
A political debate is raging as the nation wrestles with the coronavirus pandemic – whether to continue with in-person voting or to switch to mail-in balloting.
Democrats and many members of the media are calling for a major change in how votes are cast in the 2020 election. They say they want to change to a vote-by-mail system to alleviate transmission of COVID-19.
However, Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the White House coronavirus task force, said just three days ago America could return to a “degree of normality” by the election.
But what’s really behind the vote-by-mail idea? It’s an election power grab and an assault on the 1787 intent of our Constitution’s framers.
In general, it’s watchdogs and Republicans, who are vehemently opposed to vote-by-mail, citing the potential of massive fraud.
Proponents claim there’s never been any evidence of voter fraud.
A 2005 report by the Commission on Federal Election Reform drew a different conclusion.
“Absentee ballots remain the largest single source of potential voter fraud,” concluded former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican.
Countless examples of voter fraud
The reality is that America has been riddled with voter-fraud, and it’s bipartisan.
Yes, voters from both parties nationwide have been guilty of voter fraud, according to a think tank’s state-by-state data base of voter fraud cases.
In 2012, according to a Pew study, one of every eight voter registrations showed inaccuracies – 2.8 million people were registered in two or more states.
Hundreds of counties in the U.S. have fewer people than they have in registered voters.
Following enforcement of a lawsuit against California’s election officials by Judicial Watch, you might recall 5-million inactive registrations were deleted.
A major court case is currently brewing in New Mexico.
On April 8, 2020 the Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a court brief stating New Mexico has countless ineligible voters – including 1,681 deceased residents who died in 2018 or before – on the rolls and are set to get mail-in ballots.
Additional mind-boggling details: More than 1,500 of them are more than 100 years old; 64 are 120 years old; and 3,168 voter registrations are duplicates.
Question of a motive
Skeptics believe politics is the motive behind the controversial proposal to dilute voting procedures.
Democrats cannot pass their extreme political agenda under the status quo of our sacred electoral system because they don’t have public support.
President Trump is increasingly getting high marks in recent polls over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
TV ratings of his daytime coronavirus briefings are higher than before. This prompted biased commentators at CNN and MSNBC to publicly lobby their employers to stop broadcasting the daily briefings. On some days the cable channels have even boycotted coverage.
Meantime, the media pundits demand President Trump stop his daily coronavirus news briefings; calling them nothing more than infomercials for his re-election campaign.
The economy is in the tank, but the stock market is still roaring as investors enthusiastically await a solution to the epidemic. It soared again immediately after the demise of socialist Bernie Sanders.
Pundits have been nervous about Mr. Trump’s success in managing the economy. That included the 3+ percent average increases in worker wages; historically low employment rates for women, Hispanics, African Americans and Asians; and more than $10 trillion dollars added to the stock market by investors resulting in massive increases to 401(k) retirement savings plans.
In 2016, his Electoral College victory by 304 to 227 over front-runner Hillary Clinton is still a major concern for Democrats.
Judging by support on social media and the massive turnout of many thousands of voters at Mr. Trump’s rallies, his supporters seem more intensely enthusiastic than ever. Conversely, there’s an enthusiasm gap as indicated by the weak turnout of supporters at Democrat events.
Democrats failed to get traction in the endless debunked Russia-gate investigations. Now, House Democrats have announced an investigation into the president’s handling of the pandemic. It’s nothing more than an exploitation of the epidemic to hinder his re-election bid.
Only if Mr. Trump fails to successfully lead the nation against the pandemic would his re-election would be in-question.
Election power grab
So, now the gimmick is to change the voting system. Democrats want to undermine the states’ ballot security.
This past week, the U.S. Supreme Court over-ruled a federal court in trying to change Wisconsin’s election laws that would have allowed acceptance of ballots without any postmarks nearly a week after the election.
In addition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against Democrat Governor Tony Evers, who wanted to suspend in-person voting.
Democrat leaders are actively trying to insert a requirement of vote-by-mail in the phase 4 coronavirus stimulus package. But that’s contrary to what Americans want – they want Congress to combat the pandemic and take positive steps for America’s economic recovery.
Former Vice President and Democrat candidate for president Joe Biden claims “all the experts” advocate vote-by-mail.
Here are two other outspoken vote-by-mail proponents:
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, wants to force states to allow voting by mail, demands automatic and same-day voter registration, ending ID requirements and requiring states to have 15 days of early voting. All of this by the November presidential election.
- Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather has also attacked proponents of voter-ID laws. He implies they’re racially motivated and claims voter-fraud fears are merely an excuse, not a valid reason.
“Let me translate for you. ‘Widespread voter fraud’ really means a lot of ‘those kinds of people’ voting,” Mr. Rather tweeted April 8, 2020.
But the two outspoken proponents are disingenuous and habitually lacking in veracity.
You might recall Ms. Warren has been largely discredited for several false victim-hood claims and that she had a Cherokee heritage. A DNA test in 2018 showed she might only be 1/1,024th American Indian.
(As a card-carrying member of the Cherokee Nation, her false claim of Cherokee heritage is particularly repugnant to me.)
Mr. Rather is, of course, famous for his debacle in 2004 that eventually got him fired. He was forced to resign in disgrace from CBS News in 2006. His team, reportedly in collusion with the John Kerry Democrat presidential campaign, broadcast falsehoods about George W. Bush’s National Guard service.
Constitutional concerns
Liberal pundits conveniently forget this is a nation of laws. They’re advocating a dangerous precedent to federalize elections.
Plus, the idea is totally impractical. Each of the 50 states has different technological systems, infrastructures and procedures.
It would be massively chaotic for each state to manage mail-in ballot systems, not to mention failing to avoid widespread voter fraud.
There is no time to investigate and debate the issue. In our era of volatile partisan politics, such a proposal would create huge problems in addition to the voter fraud such as an increase in voter disenfranchisement.
For 60 years, Democrats have been trying to weaken the integrity of elections. Leftists have pushed for an Article V convention to install their own version of the Constitution.
Such a major change and federalizing elections would make the small states, which incidentally comprise the majority, vulnerable to the preferences of voters in the big states on both coasts.
That’s not what the framers of the Constitution wanted.
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