Does Voter Fraud Exist?

Donald Trump and other people were indicted a few weeks ago for questioning the 2020 presidential election. Yet, examples of voter fraud continue to appear. This time it is voter registration fraud. Fred Lucas shared in his article in The Daily Signal several examples of how such voter registration fraud happens. 

Lucas first reported on voter fraud charges that were handed down to ten people in Tennessee last week. Their crime: they allegedly registered to vote when they were not legally eligible to do so. The ten residents of Clarksville, Tennessee who were indicted by a grand jury had past felony convictions, making them ineligible to vote in the state. Despite not being eligible to vote, they voted anyway, according to the prosecutors. Lucas explained the law as follows.

As explained in my book “The Myth of Voter Suppression,” federal law requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove” from the official voter rolls “the names of ineligible voters.” This could include convicted felons who lost their voting rights as well as those who died or changed residences.

Lucas then shared an adapted excerpt from his book that “looks at six notable and … comical examples of voter registration scandals” that prove voter fraud does exist.

1. 25,000 Ineligible Voters in California

In 2018, the California state government admitted – after it was sued – that it mistakenly registered about 25,000 ineligible voters….

Then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla said “persistent errors” like these would “undermine public confidence.”

2. Big Apple Sting

In 2013, the New York City Department of Investigations called for the New York City Board of Elections to clean up its voter rolls after a sting operation of sorts.

The 63 city investigators went to the polls signing in with the names of dead people or people who had moved out of the city, or signing in as convicted felons no longer eligible to vote.

Of those, 61 were cleared to vote. However, no illegal votes were cast.

3. Running in Maryland While Voting in Florida?

In Maryland, Wendy Rosen won the Democratic 1^st Congressional District primary by defeating John LaFerla by 57 votes to win the right to challenge Republican Congressman Andy Harris in 2012.

However, she was forced to drop out two months before the November election when some Democrats pointed out that she had voted in both Florida and Maryland in 2006 and 2010.

She had duplicate registrations and double voted. She was fined $5,000 and sentenced to 500 hours of community service.

4. ACORN Scandal

In a 2008 case, Seattle workers with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN, submitted 1,762 fraudulent voter registration forms.

ACORN leader Clifton Mitchell was convicted of false registration and served about three months in jail. Four other ACORN colleagues got jail time as well. Washington state also fined ACORN $25,000 to cover the cost of the investigation.

Then-Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed said, “This is the worst case of voter registration fraud in the history of the state of Washington.”

5. Lone Star Voting Troubles

In 2021, police reported catching Zul Mirza Mohamed – a candidate for mayor of Carrollton, Texas – in the act of stuffing envelopes with Dallas County absentee ballot applications. But his activities allegedly ran even deeper. Investigators determined the candidate forged at least 84 voter registration forms. The Texas Attorney General’s Office charged him with 84 counts of mail ballot fraud.

6. Living in a UPS Store?

In 2021, former Republican Congressman Steve Watkins of Kansas cut a deal to avoid going to trial over voter fraud, saying that he would remain law abiding and pay a $250 fine.

Watkins was charged in 2020 for listing a UPS Store as his voting address and then voting in the wrong Topeka City Council race.

Prosecutors also charged him with interfering with law enforcement and for lying to Shawnee County detectives.

Lucas six examples of voter registration fraud that had been charged and prosecuted – plus the charges in Tennessee. This is proof that voter fraud exists – and Joe Biden continues to prove that that he is an idiot who could not have gotten more legal votes than Barack Obama, the historical first Black president.