Election Integrity Maryland and True the Vote
Following revelations of rampant vote fraud by ACORN and similar groups, voter ID laws have been passed in numerous states, and vote watchdog groups have sprung up all over America. The most well-known and effective of these is True the Vote. TTV has conducted poll watcher training nationwide and developed a proprietary database for checking voter registrations. It has had astonishing successes, especially in the Wisconsin recall, where TTV affiliates reviewed almost one million petitions in one month.
But the activities of TTV and the many independent state organizations that have undergone TTV training now pose a direct threat to vote fraud activities that previously passed unnoticed, and the Left has gone nuts over it. In a strategy developed over a number of years, all of the far-left voting organizations have built a narrative around “voter suppression,” to blunt the effectiveness of TTV and groups like them, and provide pretext for legal challenges, when questionable voting activities come to light.
After Election Integrity Maryland (EIM) received TTV training this year, they began checking voter rolls. Of 35,000 registrations reviewed so far, they have found problems with 11,000, including 1,566 dead voters. These voter registration “challenges” were submitted to local election boards and the Maryland Board of Elections. Despite repeated queries about the status of these challenges, neither the local boards nor the MBE have responded in any meaningful way.
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But Elijah Cummings did. Late on October 4, 2012, he fired off a threatening letter to TTV, accusing them of illegal activity, threatening an investigation and demanding that they turn over scads of documents. This was part of a coordinated assault against TTV by leftist groups nationwide. But even the liberal Baltimore Sun observed that Cummings had no legal right to demand anything.
Cummings claimed that Election Integrity Maryland had been “empowered” by TTV, as though there was something wrong with that. He also played dirty games, appearing on Soledad O’Brien’s show on CNN the following morning, before TTV had a chance to respond, and falsely claimed they were under investigation.
TTV responded the following day, and offered to meet with Cummings to discuss the issue, but reminded him that he had no legal authority to make demands.
Cummings waited to respond until October 18, and then in a repeat of his earlier tactic, took to MSNBC’s Ed Show, claiming disingenuously that TTV had not responded to his first letter and accusing them of engaging in illegal activities to “suppress” the minority vote.
Not a group to accept such accusations, TTV repeated its willingness to discuss the vote fraud issue with Cummings, but in a strongly worded letter, demanded a retraction of his statements, implicitly threatening a lawsuit should he not comply. Meanwhile J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department voting rights lawyer who now advises TTV, responded on CNN, calling Cummings and other critics, “ liars… and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Leftists like Cummings claim that vote fraud is not a problem. Yet the statistics prove otherwise:
To date, 46 states have prosecuted or convicted cases of voter fraud.More than 24 million voter registrations are invalid, yet remain on the rolls nationwide.There are over 1.8 million dead voters still eligible on the rolls across the country.More than 2.75 million Americans are registered to vote in more than one state.True The Vote recently found 99 cases of potential felony interstate voter fraud.Maryland affiliates of True the Vote uncovered cases of people registering and voting after their respective deaths.This year, True the Vote uncovered more than 348,000 dead people on the rolls in 27 states.California: 49,000Florida: 30,000Texas: 28,500Michigan: 25,000Illinois: 24,00012 Indiana counties have more registered voters than residents.The Ohio Secretary of State admitted that multiple Ohio counties have more registered voters than residents.Federal records showed 160 counties in 19 states have over 100 percent voter registration.The Florida New Majority Education Fund, Democratic Party of Florida and the National Council of La Raza are currently under investigation for alleged voter registration fraud.This excludes the years of massive vote fraud conducted by ACORN and Project Vote prior to their exposure. More recently, Democrats have been caught willingly engaging in vote fraud in our neighborhood:
Patrick Moran, son of Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.), resigned after being caught on tape telling an undercover reporter how to forge documents to fraudulently vote in others’ names. A Texas DNC staffer assisted an undercover reporter in voting in two statesMaryland Democrat Congressional candidate Wendy Rosen resignedfollowing allegations she voted both in Florida and Maryland in 2006 and 2008.And despite the vilification from Democrats and leftwing activist groups, even the liberal Huffington Post ridicules the myth of vote watcher vote suppression. They’ve provided a handy mythbuster’s guide titled “Reporters Beware: Election Observer Myths Are Easy to Spread, But Still False.”
Democrats claim to represent minorities and increasingly “immigrants” in their efforts to stop groups like EIM and TTV. But this is a false assertion. Black citizens are not served by a system vulnerable to vote fraud. Such systems keep entrenched political machines, and the corruption they foster, in place. The poor city services, high crime and disrepair of inner city Baltimore is but one glaring example. Detroit is another.
Blacks are outraged at the special deals given illegal aliens at their expense. High rates of black unemployment can be directly tied to illegal aliens undercutting American workers. Thirty percent of DREAM Act referendum petition signers were Democrats. Eighty percent of the petition signers from Baltimore City were Democrats.
Legal immigrants don’t appreciate it either. According to a Pew Research Center report, 71 percent of Hispanics support voter photo ID laws, almost the same proportion as the general public (77 percent). As is broadly recognized by everyone except leftists, Hispanics identify much more closely with the common sense values of the Republican Party, but like blacks, vote overwhelmingly Democratic because of the false perception leftist Democrats have been able to foment, that Republicans don’t like minorities.
The truth is exactly the opposite. Both Hispanics and blacks share the conservative values of mainstream America. Democrats have gained support because they shamelessly promote taxpayer-funded giveaways to favored groups, and attack anyone who questions them.
The DREAM Act survived the November 6 referendum by a margin of 58.3% to 41.7% according to Ballotopedia. These results can only be due to the deceptive, heavily funded, relentlessly advertised effort on the part of CASA de Maryland and its Maryland allies, against a poorly organized opposition with little financial support.
This unfortunately has brought us to where we are in Maryland today, with its corrupt, spendthrift government, trampling citizens’ rights in their unethical, illegal and self-serving efforts to coddle illegals. This situation will only change when enough people come to recognize this fact and decide enough is enough. |
