Election fraud didn’t suddenly disappear during the 2020 presidential election.
Or so observes John Fund, co-author of Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote, in a wide-ranging interview with Jan Jekielek, Wall Street Journal reporter and elections expert.
The list of problems is long. One example is what happened in New York City during the last days of the Bloomberg administration.
Testing the election system, the Department of Investigations sent 63 inspectors to try their hand at fraudulent voting. The inspectors used names of dead people, jailed people, people who had moved out of state. All they had to do to immediately get a ballot was supply a name and address. There was no double-checking.
In almost every case, the inspectors had no problem putting over the fraud. (Fake fraud; they didn’t follow through.)
In one case, an inspector was merely sent from one precinct to another precinct, only a temporary delay.
In another case, an inspector was rebuffed only because he had used the name and address of an imprisoned person who happened to be the son of the poll worker the inspector was trying to con.
In response to an exhaustive and damning report, furious Board of Elections officials demanded that the inspectors be criminally prosecuted for impersonating people. The officials testing the system were so widely savaged for this temerity that they backed off.
We must not back off, though. Ballot fraud is an insidious enemy of democracy.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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4 replies on “Our Elections — How Broken?”
There will never be another free and fair election without Voter ID. It’s that simple.
And the “malarkey” that somehow Voter ID is racist, is absurd as well. People of color know how to obtain Drivers Licenses and bank accounts. I believe the can be a success at a Voter ID
Unfortunately, voter fraud is almost impossible to prove in a timely manner, particularly if you vote by mail. Then they’ll say there’s no proof the identified cases changed the election outcome.
The most egregious violations in the 2020 elections just happened to be in six battleground states that Trump won in 2016, against all odds. Stopping the vote and dismissing the observers and barring even visual access to the vote count only served to lend credence to the fraud claims.
It worries me greatly that the Democratic leadership are making choices that make no sense except on an assumption that they will never again lose control of the Presidency and of both chambers of Congress.
(Example: The insistence that a former President cannot exercise Executive Privilege, coupled with an unwillingness of the current President to exercise such privilege on behalf of the former President. Can anyone imagine that a Republican-held chamber would not go on a fishing expedition when next it has a chance to do so?)
This is nothing new. Did JFK really win in 1960?
There were many questions even back then.