BY FRANK HILL
Reprinted from TelemachusLeaps.com
On April 2, the state legislature heard ‘stunning’ testimony from the North Carolina State Board of Elections that 36,515 people in North Carolina had voted in past elections….and apparently also voted in one of 28 other states as well. These people cast ballots in two different states in the 2012 Presidential year elections.
These votes do not affect just the outcome of the Presidential race. They also affect any Governor’s races being held at the same time, US Senate races, all Congressional races, and all of the down-the-ballot races from state senate and state house to municipal races to bond referenda.
Granted, many of the voters don’t vote all the way down the ballot in any election year; the drop-off in vote totals is significant as you go from the Presidential race down to the judicial races. But still, with 36,515 questioned ballots, many of those people also voted illegally in the down-ballot races as well as the big ones at the top.
On top of that finding, 765 people in the group of 36,515 not only had the same first name, same last name, and same date of birth but also the same Social Security Number!
Wow. What are the chances that even someone with a name as simple as John Smith of Wadesboro, NC could have the same first and last name, DOB and SSN as a John Smith of Lebanon, Virginia?
The answer is zero, in case you didn’t know. Below 0 degrees Kelvin if you were scoring on scientific temperature scales. Because everyone is supposed to have a unique SSN remember?
We have long been aware and convinced of voter fraud along these lines over the past 34 years of being involved intimately with congressional and senate campaign off-and-on during that time. We are quite surprised this number is not more like 136,515 to be honest with you.
We have also been long tussling with people who have declared with all their heart and soul and mind: ‘There is no voter fraud! There is no voter fraud!’ ‘There is no voter fraud!’
All we can say today is: ‘There is voter fraud. Deal with it.’
The Voter Integrity Project headed by Jay Delancey in Raleigh has asked the Board of Elections to impound the voter authorization forms in every county so they cannot be destroyed before legal action can be brought against the people who have committed fraud. ‘Authorization to Vote’ forms or ATV are signed sheets where you verify and prove that you are who you say you are.
Apparently, these 36,515 people just flat out lied when they went to vote. If they actually went to vote in their own skin and person, that is. Many people just walk up to the voting tables having memorized someone else’s name and address, usually of someone who hasn’t voted recently in other elections or dead people, who should be allowed to vote in any election but they do.
That is why the voter identification laws were so critical to pass in North Carolina and other states. As long as the ONLY place in the nation where you didn’t need an ID was the voting booth, the opportunity to lie, cheat, steal and commit fraud was just too tempting to politicos intent on getting their guy elected…no matter what.
Now, we know there are going to be some well-meaning but misguided souls who are going to protest that this is some sort of Republican conservative witch hunt to deny minorities, old ladies, and young people their right to vote.
It is not. This is a legitimate attempt to make sure that every vote cast by legally registered and law-abiding citizens of every race and social standing is not negated by an illegal vote cast by someone else.
The first rather lame attempts to ‘explain away’ these numbers bordered pretty much on the SNL level of comedy. As reported in the N&O: ‘Bob Hall of the liberal watchdog group Democracy North Carolina said the public shouldn’t jump to conclusions until more details about the numbers are known.
He added that duplicate names don’t automatically signal fraud. “I know there is more than one Bob Hall with my birth date who lives among the 28 states researched,” he said. “For all we know, there may be 35,000 legitimate name and birthday matches.’
C’mon, Bob! Give us a break! Take off the rose-colored glasses for a moment and look at the facts!
Let’s try to examine the chances of that in detail in real world probabilities.
Across 28 different state lines, there may be hundreds of thousands of ‘Bob Halls’. With a name as common as that, that is believable.
But there are 365 days on which to have a birthday, 366 if you count leap year. Even if all of those 35,000+ people were actually named ‘Bob Hall’, (which they are not by the way just to bring it back into the real world once again), and they were uniformly distributed among those 366 birthdays, you would still have close to 96 ‘Bob Halls’ in separate states having the same name and birthday on every single day of the year!’
But what about if your name is ‘Krzyzewski’. What if you see any same name match with the same birthday of that name? Or how about ‘Wojciechowski’?
People who are intent on cheating the system couldn’t even spell those 2 names, could they? Not that anyone else can on their first or second try either…try to ask a friend today to spell both on the first try and then buy them a beer and steak dinner if they are successful.
Nope, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. This just about puts a final nail in the coffin of the ‘There Is No Voter Fraud’ corpse. 36,515 matches of the same first and last name and birthday is ample evidence that people have been voting in different states with regularity and no fear of being caught. Because no one has ever cross-checked the voting lists like this before.
Welcome to the 21st century, American Representative Democracy!
Editor’s Note: Frank Hill is the Director of the Institute for the Public Trust in Charlotte, NC. He is former chief of staff to Congressman Alex McMillan of NC and also served on the staffs of former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole and the House Budget Committee.