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Heed Jimmy Carter on the Danger of Mail-In Voting ‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.’
‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an election at the last minute into an exclusively mail-in affair. It’s the conclusion of the bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III.
Concerns about vote-buying have a long history in the U.S. They helped drive the move to the secret ballot, which U.S. states adopted between 1888 and 1950. Secret ballots made it harder for vote buyers to monitor which candidates sellers actually voted for. Vote-buying had been pervasive; my research with Larry Kenny at the University of Florida has found that voter turnout fell by about 8% to 12% after states adopted the secret ballot.
You wouldn’t know any of this listening to the media outcry over Mr. Trump’s remarks. “There is a lot of dishonesty going on with mail-in voting,” the president said Tuesday. In response, a CNN “fact check” declares that Mr. Trump “opened a new front in his campaign of lies about voter fraud.” A New York Times headline asserts: “Trump Is Pushing a False Argument on Vote-by-Mail Fraud.” Both claim that voter fraud is essentially nonexistent. The Carter-Baker report found otherwise.
Intimidation and vote buying were key concerns of the commission: “Citizens who vote at home, at nursing homes, at the workplace, or in church are more susceptible to pressure, overt and subtle, or to intimidation. Vote buying schemes are far more difficult to detect when citizens vote by mail.” The report provides examples, such as the 1997 Miami mayoral election that resulted in 36 arrests for absentee-ballot fraud. The election had to be rerun, and the result was reversed.
There are more recent cases, too. In 2017 an investigation of a Dallas City Council election found some 700 fraudulent mail-in ballots signed by the same witness using a fake name. The discovery left two council races in limbo, and the fraud was much larger than the vote differential in one of those races. The case resulted in a criminal conviction.
In a 2018 North Carolina congressional race, Republican Mark Harris edged out Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. Fortunately, the state had relatively complete absentee-ballot records. Election officials became suspicious when they discovered that the Republican received 61% of mail-in votes, even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19% of those who had requested mail-in ballots.
A Republican operative, L. McCrae Dowless Jr., had allegedly requested more than 1,200 absentee ballots on voters’ behalf and then collected the ballots from voters’ homes when they were mailed out. Mr. Dowless’s assistants testified that they were directed to forge voters’ signatures and fill in votes. A new election was required, but Mr. Harris didn’t run. Mr. Dowless faces criminal charges for absentee-ballot fraud in both the 2016 and 2018 elections and has pled not guilty.
It is often claimed that impossibly large numbers of people live at the same address. In 2016, 83 registered voters in San Pedro, Calif., received absentee ballots at the same small two-bedroom apartment. Prosecutors rarely pursue this type of case.
Mail-in voting is a throwback to the dark old days of vote-buying and fraud. Because of this, many countries don’t allow absentee ballots for citizens living in their country, including Norway and Mexico. Americans deserve a more trustworthy system...
San Diego College Republicans President Joins Tucker to Call for End to H-1B, OPT Foreign Worker Programs
Oliver Krvaric broke down the case to place Americans First.
San Diego State College Republicans President Oliver Krvaric called for President Donald Trump to end the H-1B and OPT foreign worker programs during an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tuesday, citing the danger the frequently abused cheap labor programs pose to the economic prospects of American college graduates.
Watch Krvaric’s appearance on Tucker here:
“So essentially this giving a signal to this administration, letting them know that there is an appetite- especially among young likely voters to take care of the egregious H1B and OPT abuse that’s displacing American graduates and professionals across the board.”
Krvaric had joined a coalition of College Republican groups across the country calling for an end to the visa worker programs in the midst of the recession. President Trump already enacted what has been called an immigration moratorium, but a lobbying effort by White House liberal Jared Kushner on behalf of globalist business groups limited Trump’s executive order to...
YouTube Censors Criticism of China
Site automatically deletes terms used by regime critics
YouTube is deleting comments that contain two terms Chinese dissidents use to criticize the government, raising concerns about the tech industry's willingness to censor content to gain favor with the communist regime.
Comments on YouTube videos containing the terms 共匪 (Gòngfěi), meaning "communist bandit," and 五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng), meaning "fifty-cent party," are automatically deleted from the site shortly after they are posted. The latter is a derogatory term referring to Chinese internet censors who are allegedly paid 50 cents for every internet post that they erase.
A YouTube spokeswoman acknowledged to the Washington Free Beacon that the website's algorithm has been deleting any comments containing either of the two terms within seconds of their submission. She blamed "an error in our enforcement mechanism" for the deletions, rather than an effort to stymie criticism of the authoritarian government. The deletions have raised eyebrows among Republican lawmakers, one of whom is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate.
Colleges stonewall feds on China records
- The Department of Education says colleges are blocking attempts to obtain documents pertaining to foreign gifts.
- Among the countries from which the colleges have received money are China, Russia, and Iran.
The U.S. Department of Education launched a federal investigation into Harvard and Yale Universities in February regarding alleged undisclosed foreign gifts, including ones from China, but the department has yet to receive all of the documents it requested from the Ivy League institutions in order to conduct a thorough a complete probe.
In a letter obtained by Campus Reform, Principal Deputy General Counsel Reed Rubinstein writes to eight of the members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that the institutions in question are attempting to stonewall administration in its attempt to obtain what it sees as relevant documents pertaining to the alleged foreign interference in the American higher education system.
Noting that the colleges "claimed Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges to block record production to Congress," the letter says that "the Department has yet to receive critical information needed to confirm the accuracy of previously submitted...reports."
"Certain institutions have yet to produce requested emails, metadata, and other information regarding business relationships with, and faculty funding from, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Russian foreign sources," the letter continues. "The Department is negotiating for this important information and hopes to have access to all relevant records (and witness interviews, if appropriate) in the near term."
However, the department is not ruling out taking legal action against the universities if they do not comply with the requests.
"The Department is evaluating its available statutory and regulatory options if negotiations and compromise fail....[W]e are consulting with the U.S. Department of Justice and others to explore all potential pathways for full and fair disclosure of IHE foreign funding."
Just since February, the Education Department has launched investigations into three major universities - Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas - for their alleged undisclosed foreign ties. The Education Department asked Harvard and Yale in February to disclose any funding they may have received from China, Iran, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Records pertaining to the University of Texas' ties to a Wuhan biolab were requested by the federal government in April, as Campus Reform also reported.
Harvard, Yale, and the University of Texas did not respond to requests for comment in time for publication.
Other elite colleges, such as the University of Maryland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rutgers, Cornell, Texas A&M, and Georgetown University, have also been investigated in the past year alone over their disclosure of...
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