President Trump's Goal of Eliminating Voter Fraud Will not 'Suppress' Voter Rights as Progressives Charge, It Will Make the Vote of Every American Citizen Count

TODAY'S GOOD NEWS IS ABOUT REAL VOTES FOR TRUMP AND FRAUDULENT VOTES FOR HILLARY. • President Trump was probably right when he said he would have won the popular vote if there had been no voting fraud. • • • Last week, WND reported that it has been discovered that more than 6,000 people used out-of-state driver’s licenses to vote in New Hampshire last November, supporting Trump’s claim he lost the state because thousands of Massachusetts residents went to New Hampshire to vote. Trump claimed in February that out-of-state voters tipped the New Hampshire election against him and incumbent Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte. The Boston Globe at the time called his allegation “groundless.” But, the Washington Times reports that since November, the vast majority of the 6,000 voters have neither obtained an in-state New Hampshire license nor registered a motor vehicle, citing the results of an inquiry by Republican Speaker of the New Hampshire House Shawn Jasper. Hillary Clinton defeated Trump in New Hampshire by 2,736 votes, while Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan defeated Ayotte by 1,017 votes. Without the 6,000 likely fraudulent votes cast in new Hampshire, Trump and Ayotte probably would have won in the state. • The Washington Times cited records from the NH Department of State that oversees elections, and the Department of Safety that issues driver licenses, showing 6,540 people using out-of-state licenses to vote. But as of August 30, only 1014, about 15%, had been issued New Hampshire driver’s licenses. Of the remaining 5,526, only 3.3% had registered a motor vehicle in New Hampshire. • • • THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON VOTER INTEGRITY. In May, President Trump signed an executive order tasking Vice President Mike Pence to lead an investigation of vote fraud. Several independent groups are conducting their own probes. The presidential investigation includes a review of outdated voter lists with names of dead people and multiple registrants. WND reported in June about a study concluding that as many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election won by Barack Obama, giving credence to Trump’s much-maligned claim that more than 3 million illegal-alien voters cost him the nationwide popular vote last November. The Washington Times reported that the New Jersey research group "Just Facts," announced it found, after examining post-election polling data, that the number of noncitizens voting illegally in US elections is likely far greater than previous estimates. And WND reported in March that many election experts agree with the President that widespread vote fraud exists, including illegal-alien voting. But they think it’s unwise to make any estimates of the number of illegal voters, because there's no hard data at the moment. That likely will change with access now to records that were kept out of public view by the Obama administration. • • • EVIDENCE OF NONCITIZEN VOTING. There is other evidence of noncitizen voting. WND reported that J. Christian Adams, who worked in the Justice Department’s Voting Rights Section under President George W. Bush and now heads the nonprofit Public Interest Law Foundation, obtained voter-registration records from eight of Virginia’s 133 cities and counties and discovered 1,046 illegal aliens illegally registered to vote. He’s also forced several counties to clean up their voter rolls in states such as Mississippi and Texas. • John Fund, author of several books on election fraud, told WND in March the Obama administration created an environment for vote fraud to thrive : “When it comes to illegal votes, we need to end the Obama administration’s consistent refusal to cooperate with states on allowing access to records of legal foreigners, illegal aliens and the Justice Department’s refusal to require states to maintain clear voter lists if they accept federal funds for voting purposes." • Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the Houston-based vote-monitoring nonprofit True the Vote, told WND “no one knows how many noncitizens are voting, because under the Obama administration, attempts to find answers were blocked at every turn.” Engelbrecht noted that states attempting to pass voter ID legislation or ask for proof of citizenship were sued by the Obama DOJ. True the Vote itself, she said, “was targeted [in the IRS Lois Lerner harassment scheme] for takedown by the administration because of the work we do : researching illegal votes, calling out election fraud, empowering citizens. We were asking questions they didn’t want answered. Now, with the leadership of the Trump administration, we finally have an opportunity to stop guessing at how big the problem is." She told WND that True the Vote is engaged in a “forensic audit” of the 2016 election to uncover illegal votes, election fraud and process deficiencies. The investigation “will be comparing data from state voter registries with data from scores of other available databases, including certain state agencies, national change of address, Social Security death index, and results from hundreds of FOIA requests.” In addition, in March, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced that his office has identified an additional 385 noncitizens registered to vote in Ohio, 82 of whom have been identified as having voted in at least one election. It brings the total number of noncitizens on Ohio’s voter rolls Husted has been able to identify using available resources to 821, with 126 having actually cast ballots. • Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State for Kansas, and Vice Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, who spearheaded a voter ID law for Kansas, continues to seek state voter data, despite the fact that 44 states have refused to cooperate fully with the Commission. Kobach's initiative has been portrayed by the MSM as overwhelmingly negative. CNN said : "Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have refused to provide certain types of voter information to the Trump administration's election integrity Commission, according to a CNN inquiry to all 50 states. State leaders and voting boards across the country have responded to the letter with varying degrees of cooperation -- from altogether rejecting the request to expressing eagerness to supply information that is public." Kobach responded that the 44-state figure is “patently false, more ‘fake news’” and said 14 states and DC had done so, while 36 others “either agreed or are considering participating,” with 20 of those agreeing outright." • • • PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION GOES TO NEW HAMPSHIRE. Reuters reported on Tuesday that a Democrat member of President Trump’s bipartisan Commission to investigate possible voter fraud after the 2016 US presidential election is charging that its mission is being threatened by “extreme partisanship” -- the partisanship seems to be coming from Democrats, and that's no surprise. As dozens of protesters gathered near the Commission’s second meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire, where it is investigating reports of voter fraud, New Hampshire’s four-person, all-Democrat congressional delegation urged New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, also a Democrat, to resign from the Commission. But, Gardner said on Tuesday he would not : “New Hampshire people aren’t accustomed to walking away or stepping down from their civic duties. I will not either.” He said the Commission has faced opposition since it was launched, even though it has not yet reached any conclusions, adding : “The specter of extreme political partisanship already threatens our ability to reach a consensus. • Commission vice chairman Kris Kobach, the Republican secretary of state for Kansas, stirred controversy last week when he said in a Breitbart column that voter fraud in New Hampshire led to former Democratic Governor Maggie Hassan defeating incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte for a US Senate seat. Kobach, an advocate of tougher immigration laws and voter identification, also said Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton may have won New Hampshire due to illegal voting by non-residents. • Fox News published an article by Paul Steinhauser on Monday, which reported that "New Hampshire, the state that helps kick off presidential elections, is now at the center of a partisan battle over voter fraud, and the debate is set to heat up Tuesday." Opponents of tighter voter registration and ID laws have argued that NH’s laws allow a person to be domiciled in New Hampshire for voting purposes and still be a resident of another state for driver's licensing purposes -- they cite students who are in New Hampshire attending colleges or universities, but do not provide any evidence that these student activists only vote where they are enrolled in a university and do not also vote in their home state as well. But, in addition, NH state law requires that people who come to live in the state and have a vehicle register it and obtain a New Hampshire driver’s license within 60 days. Kobach's data shows that this subsequent registration was not the case after out-of-state driver licenses were used as ID for voting in NH in the November presidential election. Trump trounced Clinton in the all-important Electoral College vote, 306 to 232, to win the presidency. But he lost the national popular count by nearly 3 million votes. Soon after his victory, then-President-elect Trump claimed : "in addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” And he singled out New Hampshire as one of three states with “serious voter fraud.” • Many New Hampshire Republicans agree with President Trump -- and they have long fought against their state’s same-day voter registration law, saying it allows Democrats to "game the system." Finally, in July, the GOP-majority state legislature passed a bill tightening voting laws. That measure was signed into law by Governor Chris Sununu, the state’s first Republican governor in more than a decade. • But, Democrats -- who are generally opposed to tightening voter registration and ID laws -- argue the Commission is a voter suppression effort led by Trump to justify his voter fraud claims. Top New Hampshire Democrats have urged Gardner, a Democrat who has served more than four decades as secretary of state, to quit the Commission, but Gardner says he has no problem sitting on a Commission with people whom he might disagree with. Gardner told Fox News : "We don’t get anywhere if you refuse to talk to people who you might disagree with.” • That sounds like old-fashioned Yankee common sense, doesn't it?? • • • HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMMISSION'S NEW HAMPSHIRE MEETING. The Commission met in Concord, NH, on Tuesday. The Concord Monitor reported on the meeting that included invited guests to serve on panels about voter fraud and solutions. Here is a summary of the meeting provided by the Concord Montor. Two sitting secretary of states, including New Hampshire’s, pushed back against Kris Kobach's charge that out-of-state voter fraud “likely” changed the result of the Hassan-Ayotte senate race in 2016. Near the start of a panel discussion,Commission member and New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner told Commission vice chairman Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State of Kansas : “The problem that has occurred because of what you wrote is...the question of whether our election as we have recorded it is real and valid. And it is real and valid.” Gardner offered 'zero' proof or explanation for his comment -- so much for Yankee common sense. • And, on Tuesday, Kobach stood by his overall conclusions, saying that the numbers are “obviously subject to concern” and referencing “anecdotal” evidence that people cross the border to vote. He also pushed back at one of the rebuttals to his article: that the voters using out-of-state licenses in 2016 were concentrated in college towns, and were likely students domiciled in New Hampshire but carrying different licenses. Those students, Kobach said, could just as likely commit voter fraud : “This problem of people possibly coming to New Hampshire to vote but with no intention to maintain a domicile in the state is something...that legislators...from New Hampshire have been dealing with...for years." • Another panel speaker, John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, suggested applying the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to elections to verify citizens wanting to vote. Lott said that using the system, most commonly used by licensed firearms dealers to approve gun sales, would be allow voters to be checked for residence and immigration status, calling the process’s convenience “one-stop shopping.” • The Tuesday Commission meeting was the scene of protests, with signs saying ‘Vote Free or Die’ -- a play on New Hampshire's 'Live Free or Die' state moto -- greeting Commission members. The protesters were from the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights that says the Commission is a sham designed to promote voter suppression. The NH Campaign for Voting Rights is still protesting against Republican Governor Chris Sununu's July signing of the law that will impose new residency requirements on New Hampshire voters. This new law will require voters who register within 30 days of an election to show additional documentation that they indeed live day-to-day at the residence they claim as their “domicile" and intend to do so long-term. Voters who lack suitable documentation will be able to cast provisional ballots, but they’d still have to provide documents proving their residency meets the state’s new requirements at a later date. If they don’t, this new law empowers state election officials to visit their homes and refer them to the state secretary of state’s office for potential investigation. • Before the NH legislature voted, there were out-of-state media buys and other efforts to stop the passage of the bill. Priorities USA, a pro-Democrat group, launched digital ads in March targeting Republican state senators on the Election Law Committee to demand that they work to defeat the bill before it went to the NH Senate. The ads targeted Senators James Gray and Andy Sanborn, both Republicans and both co-sponsors of the bill, as well as the author of the bill and chair of the committee. Priorities USA is known nationally for its focus on voting rights. The fundraising arm of the organization, Priorities USA Action, was the top super PAC supporting Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 and was the main money driver for former President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign. The NH Campaign for Voting Rights is also supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as other left-leaning and/or Soros- supported organizations such as America Votes-New Hampshire, Open Democracy, League of Women Voters-New Hampshire, NextGen New Hampshire, New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, People for the American Way, NAACP New England Area Conference, Granite State Progress and Fair Elections Legal Network. • • • VOTER FRAUD IS A HOT BUTTON ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS WHO OPPOSE VOTER ID EFFORTS. National Democrats oppose the Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity. • Fox News reported on August 7 that there was a small victory for President Trump’s Commission when two New Hampshire lawmakers and the local ACLU, who had gone to court to try to stop the state from handing over data to the Commission, reached a compromise that will allow limited information to be released. • As part of its investigation into voter fraud, Fox News reported that the Commission has requested publicly available data from all states on registered voters. Material requested includes party affiliation, voting history and the last four social security numbers. As of Auguts 7, California, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Mexico and South Carolina had refused to cooperate. Twenty-six other states are charging fees for the data or offered limited cooperation. Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Washington have already complied. Commission critic Myrna Perez, deputy director of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program at New York University's School of Law, which is taking a lead in criticizing the Commission, says she is worried about loss of privacy. She is also concerned about long-term consequences of any conclusions reached. However, Perez is apparently not worried that California, one of the states refusing to cooperate with the Commission, is under scrutiny following a report by Judicial Watch that says 11 California counties had more registered voters than voting-age citizens. • At least seven groups, including the NAACP, Common Cause and the ACLU, have filed lawsuits challenging the Commission’s authority. The Commission is expected to release a report on election fraud next year. • • • LET AMERICA VOTE -- A SOROS-FUNDED PROGDEM SHAM. Joining the protesters in New Hampshire on Tuesday was former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat and founder of "Let America Vote." He says the Commission was created to substantiate the biggest lie ever told by a sitting President and should be dismantled. • The "lie" is far more on the Progressive Democrat side of the ledger. The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) reported last April that "Let America Vote” is a "sham" Leftist front organization. The RSLC said ; "In February, to much self-supplied fanfare, a group called 'Let America Vote' launched and most recently announced an ad-buy in opposition to commonsense New Hampshire legislation that would help prevent out-of-state residents from voting in that state on Election Day. While 'Let America Vote' claims to be an advocate for voters, the reality is starting to look a bit different, as the group’s leadership has a questionable record on elections, is shady in its funding and is fighting bipartisan NH legislation, sponsored and passed by the Republican state Senate majority and supported by the state’s Democrat Secretary of State [Bill Gardner who is a Commission member]." • The Board of Directors for Let America Vote cntains the names of Democratic Party heavy hitters -- Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood, Obama’s old White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and a Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign. • The Washington Free Bracon described some of the Board members : "Josh Earnest, President Obama's former White House Press Secretary; Martin Luther King Jr. III, a human rights activist; Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY's List; and Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for Obama; all sit on the 27-person advisory board. Guy Cecil, Chairman of Priorities USA, has also joined the board. Priorities USA was the largest liberal super PAC that backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. It is also funded by Soros, and absorbed Every Citizen Counts, a nonprofit that was created by Clinton allies to mobilize Latino and African-American voters. Priorities USA will build a national database that's intended to be a "one-stop inventory" on voting measures which it will share with other Progressive groups. Marc Elias, the former top campaign lawyer for Clinton's presidential campaign and a partner at the Washington, DC office of the Perkins Coie law firm, is also listed as a member of the advisory board. Elias led challenges against voter ID laws in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina that were bankrolled by millions from liberal billionaire George Soros. Elias recently joined the board of Priorities USA to help the group in its efforts to combat voter laws." • The RSLC described what Kander, the founder of Let America Vote, is doing : "As Missouri’s Secretary of State, Jason Kander oversaw elections frought with sloppiness that deprived residents of voting : '...Republican voters in least 2 Mid-Missouri counties were turned away at the polls on election night because of a shortage of ballots...Missouri lawmakers from both parties are upset over the Presidential Primary ballot mess." KRCG-TV headlined a story titled "Lawmakers upset with Primary ballot shortage," on March 16, 2016, that reported : "Anywhere from 30 to 35 locations ran out of paper ballots. That number obviously increased as the day went on." St. Louis Public Radio said St. Louis County elections were extended in 63 precincts after ballot shortages. The RSLC says : “ 'Let America Vote' is funded by...we don’t know...and appears to be dishing out cash to to Kanders : despite having the resources to make an ad buy in New Hampshire, the group has yet to publicly disclose its donors or expenditures. The group, which is based in Washington, DC, employs both Jason Kander as President and Diane Kander as Vice President and Treasurer." RSLC goes on to state : "The person actually tasked with ensuring access to the New Hampshire ballot box -- a Democrat -- favors the legislation : 'Longtime Secretary of State Bill Gardner is throwing the weight of his office behind several proposed changes to state election laws.” The New Hampshire Union Leader article was titled : "Bill aims to close voting ‘domicile loophole’ in election law." RSLC president Matt Walter said : “The idea that a failed Missouri candidate would spend money from undisclosed resources to fight commonsense legislation backed by New Hampshire’s Democrat Secretary of State is laughable. New Hampshire residents certainly have a number of questions that should be answered.” • • • A NOTE ABOUT RSLC. The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) is the largest caucus of Republican state leaders in the country and the only national organization whose mission is to elect Republicans to multiple down-ballot, state-level offices. Since 2002, the RSLC has been working to elect candidates to the offices of lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state legislator, the judiciary and other down-ticket races. The RSLC has more than 150,000 donors in all 50 states. During the 2013-2014 election cycle, the RSLC was active in all 50 states and picked up 10 new state legislative chambers, leading to an all-time historic high of 69 chambers controlled by Republicans. In 2016, state-level Republicans maintained a record 69 of 99 legislative chamber majorities in red, purple and blue states, held 31 lieutenant governor seats, and grew to 31 secretaries of state. The RSLC expanded its Future Majority Project and Right Women, Right Now initiatives, spending more than $18 million over the last three election cycles in direct support of new Republican candidates of diverse descent and women, leading to the election of nearly 100 Republicans of diverse descent, as well as 386 new women candidates. In the 2014 cycle, the RSLC also launched the Judicial Fairness Initiative and the new top-level domain for the Republican Party, ‘.gop.’ To learn more about the RSLC, visit < www.rslc.gop > or follow @RSLC on Twitter. • • • DEMOCRATS DO NOT WANT TO ELIMINATE VOTER FRAUD. The Washington Free Beacon wrote in February : "Democrats are moving swiftly to build a large network to push back against voter identification laws after President Donald Trump claimed illegal immigrants gave Hillary Clinton the edge in the popular vote and called for a 'major investigation' into potential voter fraud. Democratic-aligned groups have since rolled out what amounts to a large infrastructure to oppose any potential Republican efforts to enact further voter ID laws." The Free Beacon said Let America Vote, a nonprofit group that filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in February, has been established by former Democratic Missouri Secretary of State and failed Senate candidate Jason Kander" -- he was beaten by Senator Roy Blunt. Kander says Let America Vote is dedicated to "winning the public debate over voter suppression in the United States....Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws. For the first time, politicians intent on denying certain Americans the right to vote will first have to consider the political consequences." • Logan Churchwell, the spokesperson for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a legal group that fights for election integrity through litigation efforts, told the Washington Free Beacon that the term "nonprofit" is too generous of a term for Let America Vote and that the group is "a super PAC through and through." Churchwell then referred to the ramped up efforts against voter laws as "soft bigotry" from Democrats : "For years, opponents of election integrity reforms have advertised to march under the banner of protecting civil rights, while arguing that voter ID laws are harmful because black voters aren't ‘sophisticated' enough to follow the rules." Churchwell said : "The soft bigotry of low expectations has predictably resulted in a backlash, leading to polling demonstrating that between 70% and 80% of Americans support voter ID. As a point of fact, voter ID tends to be more popular among the poorer, lesser educated, older, and minorities in general. All that remain are wealthier, white liberals." • • • DEAR READERS, if only the Progressive Democrat Left would spend as much energy on actually eliminating voter fraud, cleaning up voter rolls, and ensuring that only eligible American citizens are voting as they are now spending, thanks in large part to George Soros funding, on proving that Trump and his team colluded with Russia to beat Hillary -- there is No Evidence for that anywhere despite Special Counsel Mueller and his 35+ lawyers -- they might actually contribute to a better America. But, the breadth and intensity of the pushback from Progressive Democrats and the MSM about the existence of voter fraud and the GOP effort ot eliminate it is strong evidence that the elimination of voter fraud could cost the Democrats heavily at the ballot box. All sorts of fake arguments are presented, often based on emotional appeals to Americans' good hearts, but these arguments oppose common sense safeguards that apply elsewhere when something of value may be obtained by fraud unless prevented by laws and their enforcement. These Leftist Progressive groups talk about "voter suppression laws" enacted by the GOP. That is Orwellian Newspeak. What they really mean is that their Progressive anti-American interests are best served when anyone who can get to a voting booth is allowed to vote with no questions asked, illegal immigrants included. "Stuffing ballot boxes," even with dead voter ballots, prevents real American citizens from delivering real government to the Republic. And, it gives Soros and his Globalists the quickest route to overthrowing America and its Constitution for elitist socialist world government led by the UN. • Ask yourself -- why should a photo ID to buy a plane ticket or open a bank account be required when anyone can vote with no questions asked??? • George Soros' companion program is to eliminate the Electoral College and elect the US President by popular vote. Imagine what a free-for-all, no-ID or other test for voting combined with a popular election of the President would mean for the Republic. Stay alert and fight back. America does not want Progressive Soros-led Globalist government. They want the Constitution-led Republic that the Founders created.