The Patriot Post® · Voter Fraud Looms Large in November

Here’s a question worth pondering: If mail-in voting is perfectly safe, then why don’t we allow mail-in drug testing? Or mail-in fingerprinting?

The question answers itself, and yet the Democrats will insist that any attempt by Republicans to crack down on the COVID-era practice of bulk-mail balloting is A Threat to Our Democracy™. (It’s a republic, but whatever.)

Perhaps finally sensing that election fraud is real, the Republican National Committee cleaned house recently, with former chair Ronna McDaniel and as many as 60 staffers getting pink-slipped. The RNC’s new leadership consists of Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law. We expect Trump to improve the organization’s struggling fundraising efforts, but Whatley’s job will be even more important. He was an effective advocate for voter integrity initiatives as the chair of North Carolina’s GOP, and, as The Washington Times reports, the RNC’s first-ever election integrity division “will be based on the North Carolina GOP blueprint.”

And Whatley wasted no time, announcing last week that the RNC is suing Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over her office’s failure to “keep their rolls accurate and up-to-date.”

We wish Whatley and Trump well, but they’ll have their work cut out for them. A poll taken last year by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research illustrates the problem: “Only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes in the upcoming presidential election will be counted accurately compared to 71% of Democrats, underscoring a partisan divide fueled by a relentless campaign of lies related to the 2020 presidential election.”

That’s a stunning differential, no? Why are the Democrats so confident? It’s simple: The current system works for them, and it works smashingly well.

Perhaps that explains why, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week on the John Lewis Voting Cheating Rights Act, Utah Republican Mike Lee couldn’t get any of the Democrats’ three witnesses to give a simple “yes” or “no” answer to a series of questions about noncitizens voting.

Lee asked, “Do you believe that only citizens of the United States should be able to vote in federal elections?” He got answers such as this: “We don’t have a position about noncitizens voting in federal elections.”

One Democrat witness, Sophia Lin Lakin, who runs the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, told Lee, “Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections and our focus is on enabling all eligible voters to be able to vote and cast their ballot.”

But, as The Federalist notes, that’s not exactly true: “Current federal law stipulates voters must simply check on a form that they are a U.S. citizen, but they do not have to provide any proof.”

Elsewhere in Voter Fraud Land, Joe Biden’s Department of Injustice appears to be using taxpayer funds to encourage imprisoned felons and noncitizens to register to vote, at least in Mississippi. As The Federalist reports:

On March 6, Republican Secretary of State Michael Watson sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the DOJ’s compliance with Executive Order 14019, a directive signed by President Biden in March 2021 that ordered hundreds of federal agencies to interfere in state and local election administration by using U.S. taxpayer money to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities. Each department was directed to draft “a strategic plan” explaining how it intended to fulfill Biden’s edict, and to collaborate with so-called “nonpartisan third-party organizations” that have been “approved” by the administration to supply “voter registration services on agency premises.”

This scheme can actually be traced back to a specific date: March 7, 2021. That’s when a newly elected Joe Biden issued an executive order for all 600 federal agencies to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”

And think about it: If they’re using taxpayer funds to encourage incarcerated felons and illegal aliens to vote in Mississippi, what are the odds that they aren’t doing it anywhere else?

Like we said: The new RNC team has their work cut out for them.

Perhaps, though, there’s a bright side to all this: Minority voters appear to be shifting away from the Democrats and toward the Republicans. And, as The Washington Free Beacon reports, “The Democratic Party’s falling support among non-white voters is a ‘much deeper’ problem than many of its supporters realize or are willing to admit, according to a recent analysis.”

How bad is it for the open-borders, job-killing, wage-crushing, crime-inducing Democrats? This bad: A recent New York Times/Siena poll found that Joe Biden led Donald Trump by a mere 12 points among non-white voters — a group that Biden won by nearly 50 points in 2020.

November is still a long way away, and voters tend to find their way back home on Election Day, but these numbers are causing panic among the Democrats. And they should. After all, as Hugh Hewitt put it in the title of his prescient 2012 book, If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat.