"The Corruption Chronicles"
By Tom Fitton
This is an excerpt from Fitton’s book…
The Left used the pretext of COVID to rush through, sometimes contrary to law, long-sought changes in election rules that saw tens of millions of ballots and ballot applications being mailed to voter roll lists that are notoriously inaccurate.
The tsunami of mail-in ballots conveniently led to chaos in many key states on Election Day. (By the way, federal law sets an Election Day, not an Election Week or an Election Month or an Election Winter.)
Judicial Watch has long warned of the chaos and increased risk of fraud from recklessly mailing 100 million ballots and ballot applications. Our most recent research, using data from just before the 2020 election, revealed that 353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration rates of those counties exceeded 100 percent of eligible voters. In Pennsylvania, our litigation to clean up dirty voting rolls uncovered 800,000 “extra” names on the rolls.
How to fix this mess? Restore the rule of law on elections. One thing we aim to do is “get the receipts” about the 2020 election. Judicial Watch has 105 open-record and Freedom of Information Act requests pending on the election. Another thing to do is clean up the rolls. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections! A Judicial Watch federal lawsuit settlement is already resulting in LA County cleaning up to 1.5 million names from the rolls! And we’re in federal court now to clean up the rolls in Pennsylvania, Colorado, and North Carolina. And more lawsuits are coming, believe you me.
And let me be clear, voting by mail should generally be ended. Vote by mail makes it nearly impossible to detect or even to pretend to prevent fraud. This security gap undermines confidence in the elections. Unless you’re putting your life on the line in Afghanistan or have some other emergency reason, the law should require you to vote in person—after your citizenship and eligibility has been verified and after you show your secure photo ID! And no ballot harvesting!
Let me say this, if elections are not secure and are conducted in violation of the Constitution, many Americans will not vote in them. Secure elections conducted according to law will increase voter turnout!
Can we have a debate on this? Not if Big Tech gets its way. Big Tech’s censorship of former President Trump and other conservative leading voices provides cover to the Left’s broad and governmental attack on the God-given rights of tens of millions of Americans.
The Liberator