We still don’t know for sure who won the 2020 elections (although after a “Mostly Peaceful Protest” over election insecurity at the Capitol on January 6, 2021) Joe Biden was confirmed as President, and his staff more or less ruled in his name until Trump was elected for the second (or, as I say, possibly third) time.
The issue of ballot insecurity has been a concern to Republicans for some time. Republican broadcaster Hugh Hewitt wrote If It’s Not Close They Can’t Cheat in 2004, partly as a result of Al Gore’s challenge to George W. Bush’s election in 2000. In 2012, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky wrote Who’s Counting? How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk between the first and second elections of Barack Obama.
The Democrats are traditionally the party of voter fraud, at least in the last century, and Republicans, for their part, are traditionally the party of surrendering to voter fraud, so as not to seem “racist.”
See, for example, from VDARE.com:
- Ann Coulter: Voter Fraud Never Happens! (Except in These 10,000 Cases)
- NYT: Vote Fraud Would Require Many Politicos Working Together Like a Machine: a ‘Political Machine,’ if You Can Imagine Such a Concept
- Vote Fraud Never Happens (Except Where It Does)
- GOP Surrendered On Minority Voter Fraud—In 1982!
- GOP Always Surrenders To Voter Fraud—Example: Carter Vs. Ford, New York State, 1976
- McCain Wouldn’t Fight Black Voter Fraud In PA, 2008, For Fear Of “Domestic Violence” By Obama Fans
Democrats, as Ann Coulter pointed out in 2020, are the party of refusing to admit that they’ve been beaten.
Also Democrats act as if any attempt to prevent ineligible people from voting is “voter suppression.”
This brings us to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. It’s intended to ensure that only people who are citizens of the United States are registered to vote.
Democrats keep objecting that, as Wikipedia says under “Objections” to the SAVE Act, that “Non-citizens voting in federal elections has been proven to be extremely rare and is already illegal…” but that doesn’t really matter, even if you believed Wikipedia’s definitions of “proven” and “rare.”
The reality is that with 15 to 30 million illegals (no one really knows the number) in the US, and state governments which (a) regularly give drivers licenses to illegals, and (b) automatically register everyone with a driver’s license to vote, the possibility of unwitting non-citizen voting is large.
One threat—many illegals who were brought to the US as children by their illegal parents do not know that they’re not American citizens—their parents didn’t tell them.
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Filipino whose mother sent him to live in America with his grandparents on a tourist visa when he was a kid, wrote in the New York Times that he only found out he was illegal when he went to apply for a driver’s license when he was 16:
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby D.M.V. office to get my driver’s permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. “This is fake,” she whispered. “Don’t come back here again.”
Confused and scared, I pedaled home and confronted Lolo. I remember him sitting in the garage, cutting coupons. I dropped my bike and ran over to him, showing him the green card. “Peke ba ito?” I asked in Tagalog. (“Is this fake?”) My grandparents were naturalized American citizens — he worked as a security guard, she as a food server — and they had begun supporting my mother and me financially when I was 3, after my father’s wandering eye and inability to properly provide for us led to my parents’ separation. Lolo was a proud man, and I saw the shame on his face as he told me he purchased the card, along with other fake documents, for me. “Don’t show it to other people,” he warned.
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, by Jose Antonio Vargas, June 22, 2011
Vargas is the immigration activist featured on this 2012 Time cover:
He, and the other young illegals in the picture at least know they’re illegal, and may have the sense not to vote illegally, even if they’re registered to vote.
But many people who may not even know they’re not American citizens are on the voter rolls. That’s one thing the SAVE Act will protect America from.