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A majority of Americans support the idea that only U.S. citizens should be allowed to vote in elections.  This is a fact.  However, many individuals are against a bill, the SAVE Act, which would require potential voters to prove citizenship to vote.  The arguments range from claims that providing ID is racist because people of color can’t figure out how to get valid IDs, and they are misogynistic because women can’t figure out how to get valid IDs after getting married.  Sadly, when you can only play the race and misogyny cards, it proves you aren’t playing with a full deck.

People like Chuck Schumer and many others sing the chorus that it is Jim Crow 2.0 and assert that if you have to pay for an ID, it is the equivalent of a poll tax, despite the fact that you pay for IDs that are required to buy alcohol, tobacco, board an airplane, and for numerous other daily purchases.  Given this logic, all ID fees are Jim Crow 2.0.  Of course, each of these arguments is outlandish and points to the brittle straws that those who want to maintain a system that opens the door to potential cheating will grasp. What they fail to grasp is that the majority of Americans want safeguards to ensure that when they vote, their vote won’t be canceled by an illegal vote.

The latest argument in the battle to maintain a system that a majority of Americans don’t trust and want to see reformed is that the amount of voting fraud is minuscule.  They cite studies by two think tanks: the Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institution, to debunk the idea that rampant voter fraud in America exists.  The Brookings Institution actually cited Heritage Foundation numbers to make the claim that in the last 13 to 38 years, cases of fraud in U.S. elections are less than 1%.  If this is true, it’s a strong argument, but it involves looking deeper into how this percentage was calculated.

At this writing, the Heritage Foundation’s database showed 1412 instances of election fraud, which is a small number when compared to the millions of voters casting ballots.  However, note the following statement on the Heritage Foundation’s website: “The database doesn’t list potential fraud discovered by election officials and others that is never investigated or prosecuted, and it obviously cannot list fraud that goes undetected when states with poor security don’t have the tools in place to even realize such fraud is occurring. ” This is a pretty important disclaimer overlooked by all those claiming that the amount of voter fraud in America is insignificant.

Anyone who has studied statistics knows that numbers can be easily manipulated to reach favorable conclusions for any argument a person attempts to make.  One side uses statistics to point to what they believe is a fact that reports of rampant voter fraud are disinformation, and another side makes claims that voter fraud is a real concern for Americans.  So which side is right?  It is important to understand the reasons why so many Americans don’t have confidence in the system that is the lifeblood of the republic.

We have all heard reports about ballot harvesting, dead people, and illegal voting.  Yet, there are reputable institutions, including the Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, and the Brennan Center for Justice, all reputable data gatherers, that assure Americans that those reporting voter fraud is abundant is fake news.  Unfortunately, much of this data glosses over how the data was selected. At least the Heritage Foundation is honest about how its data was compiled.

Another market research company, Gitnux, has gone much deeper into voter fraud analysis and has come up with dozens of documented individual instances that should make every voter concerned about the legitimacy of the voting process. (https://gitnux.org/voter-fraud-statistics/)  Here are just 10 instances from numerous states that they cited, which question the integrity of the system and are overlooked by those who seem to want a system that opens the door to fraud and cheating:

1. In Pennsylvania, the 2020 election audit found 289% more ballots cast than voters who signed in at certain precincts in Philadelphia.
2. Georgia 2020, 17,000 ballots from deceased voters or invalid per data analysis.
3. In New York’s 2020 election, 20,000 duplicate registrations led to double votes.
4. California 2022, 10,000 non-resident votes.
5. New Jersey 2020, 100,000+ mail ballots with signature mismatches ignored.
6. California 2023, 20,000 ballot harvesting violations.
7. Minnesota 2020, 144 non-citizen votes confirmed.
8. Texas 2020, 100,000+ felons voted illegally.
9. Arizona 2022, 200% turnout anomalies in precincts.
10. Georgia 2020, 15,000 double-scanned ballots.

Many more instances of documented anomalies and suspicious behavior have been reported.

Those who just want you to look at the overall number and make claims that less than 1% fraud in US voting is perpetrating as great a fraud as what we see from the individual instances cited above on the Gitnux website.  At the very least, such reports justify a serious investigation into how votes are counted in various municipalities.

When it comes to illegals voting, a 2014 study from the academic journal, Electoral Studies, used 2008 data from presidential and congressional elections that was based on a national survey where 14.8% of citizens admitted they were registered to vote as well as a database of registered voters that reveals what portion of the surveyed non-citizens “were in fact registered” even though “they claimed not to be registered.”

and made the following determinations:

1. “Roughly one quarter of non-citizens” in the U.S. “were likely registered to vote.”
2. “6.4% of non-citizens actually voted.”
3. 8% of them “reported voting for Barack Obama.”
4. Illegal votes cast by non-citizens “likely” changed “important election outcomes” in favor of Democrats, “including Electoral College votes” and a “pivotal” U.S. Senate race that enabled Democrats to pass Obamacare.

American citizens need to be confident that when they show up to use the ballot box to voice their desires for whom they want representing them in local, state, and federal government positions, that it is an honest and fair process.  Voting laws must be strictly enforced.

Most conservatives understand that the legacy media is disingenuous in how it reports stories with an agenda-driven coverage that obscures the administration’s achievements and makes big news out of small issues when the administration does something that they can cast in a dubious spotlight.  This has led to mistrust of what was once revered and called the fourth aspect of the checks and balances system: The Fourth Estate.  We have accepted that disinformation and misinformation are common everyday occurrences in the media.  This cannot be the case when it comes to voting, and fixing the system of voting is far easier than fixing a corrupt media that hides behind the First Amendment when called out for biased and false reporting.

To answer the question that I posed as my title for this article, the answer is definitely: YES!  The politicians who make ridiculous claims and use spuriously gathered statistics to sabotage the SAVE Act must be held accountable for supporting a system that could foster cheating and should bend to the will of their constituents, who demand a safe and secure system that only counts the votes of those who abide by legal voting requirements.

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Michael Matteo is an educator, produced playwright and screenwriter. He has written or co-written 4 books including one of the first jokebooks to make fun of political correctness.He owned a business for 19 years, and has been teaching for over 30 years.Currently he lives and works as head of the humanities department at private, international school in Chengdu, China. Michael's latest published effort is a dystopian novel titled: It Began With A Whisper

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