September 30, 2004

Voter Fraud: Nose of the Camel

Sean Hackbarth has news of a rather shocking development in Wisconsin:

In today's Journal Sentinel is a front page story on how important the youth vote is in the election. The story is rather hum-drum. Much more interesting is a caption to this picture:

New Voters Project volunteers gather to be deputized as city registrars. Wisconsin is one of six states targeted by the non-partisan group, which says it has already added more than 100,000 young adults to the rolls here.

New Voters Project is about as non-partisan as Rock the Vote. NVP is a project of the State Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) and George Washington University. The PIRGs are nothing more than Leftist political outfits. More importantly the New Voters Project now has the ability to commit massive vote fraud that could swing Wisconsin and the election toward John Kerry. The Wisconsin Campus Director is Jessy Tolkan. She's had experience with election fraud.

The dirty little secret about registering in Wisconsin is a voter can do so at the polls on Election Day. There is no need to register beforehand. Registration drives only make local officials spend time finding first-time registrants and ask for identification. After that no indentification is needed. Thus a first-time registrant who showed a town clerk their ID does not have to show it again before voting.

There's even a big loophole in same-day registration. The registrant doesn't even need to show any idea if someone who lives in the same municipality vouches for the person. In some cases NVP workers have been deputized to register voters. In other localities they haven't. Those deputized can register voters without local officials checking IDs. They are simply added to the voter rolls.

Because of Wisconsin's lax voting rules here is a plausible scenerio to steal a Kerry victory:

Here's the method to the New Voter Project madness. In Wisconsin, you can register to vote at the polls on Election Day. You have to produce identification when you register. But sending in a phony registration in advance puts you on the voter list before the election. Already-registered voters don't have to show any identification. By putting perhaps thousands of fake names on the voter lists, it will be possible for fraudsters to show up at the polls and simply claim to be the person who was already "registered."

If you wish to help combat Democrat attempts to steal the election through voter fraud, please send watch your local news media for reports indicating an attempt at fraud may be under way, and forward those stories to me at voterfraud-at-gmail.com. Also, you may wish to contact your local county clerk or election supervisor and inquire as to whether they are seeing a marked increase in voter registration, absentee ballot requests, and suspicious or fraudulent registrations. And you may sniff around to see if New Voters Project or some other left-wing organization is conducting voter-registration drives.

Please help me find the answers to the five questions and determine if there is sufficient evidence of a coordinated voter-fraud strategy at work.

And one final request. The immense interest in this project combined with a sustained traffic surge related to the Dan Rather/CBS memogate story has pushed my site's traffic up against my bandwidth limit for the billing month, about halfway through the month. Donations welcomed...