By Don C. Reed
Voting is the crown jewel of democracy; what a crime it would be, if it was stripped away, without your even knowing it?
Imagine it’s election day. You are all set to choose a President. You walk to the library, or fire department, or wherever you are accustomed to vote. And then….
“Sorry,” says the clerk, “You are not on the list.”
“There must be some mistake,” you say, “ I voted here before!”
They finally offer you a provisional (substitute) ballot, which you fill out on the spot. It will be evaluated later, after all the other ballots have been counted. You hope it will be accepted.
Your vote may have just been disqualified: purged.
Think of your own voter registration right now. Is it valid? Maybe not.
If your voting rights have been taken, it may not be an accident. It may be a Republican endeavor to remove your vote.
“… election denial groups have been challenging voters’ eligibility on a massive scale… pressuring officials to investigate (to “purge”, or disqualify) large numbers of voters.” (1)
How many voters have been purged? The numbers are staggering.
“According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, over 19 million voters were removed from the rolls between 2020 and 2022…” (2)
But back to you personally, right now– are you eligible to vote? You may want to find out– and fix the situation, if desired.
Visit the following URL, fill out one very brief form (name, email, birthdate), from the non-partisan group “Rock the Vote”. It will tell you if you are registered or not. If the screen says, “voter active”, you are good to go. But if it says anything else?
https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/am-i-registered-to-vote/?source=rtv.org-mainnav
If you are not registered, you can Google your home state, then your Secretary of State, and follow his/her instructions. Or, go to the following URL and fill out a short form. It takes about two minutes to complete.
https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/register-to-vote/?source=rtv.org-topnav
There are various kinds of “purging” or “caging”, which may disqualify a voter.
“Purging” can mean you have been disqualified because someone found a name which is like yours (either identical, as in Smith/Smith, or similar, as in Smith/Smythe) and they are challenging your vote because (they say) it might be fraud.
“Caging” means they send you a letter, full of small print.
The letter says they are cleaning up the official list, to prevent voter fraud. To stay on the list, you must prove your identity by sending them a notification. Some may regard this letter as junk mail, and toss it– which may cut them from the list.
QUESTION: does massive voter fraud exist, as claimed by former President Donald J. Trump?
ANSWER: No.
A comprehensive study of voter impersonation (pretending to be someone you are not, supposedly a major cause of voter fraud) found only “31 credible incidents out of more than one billion votes cast”. (3)
Want more? “In Georgia, the Heritage Foundation…reported no cases of fraud in the 2020 or the 2022 general elections, in which nearly 9 million votes were cast…(4)
IMPORTANT: Who is the Heritage Foundation? Remember Project 2025, which not only gave Donald Trump recommendations for three judges on the Supreme Court, (which ended Roe V. Wade) but was also a 1,900-page blueprint on how to make the government more conservative? The Heritage Foundation is the group behind Project 2025. (5) They sincerely wanted to find major amounts of voter fraud in the past two elections. They found almost none, out of literally millions of votes; what does that tell you?
NOTE: former President George W. Bush (R) ordered an investigation of voter fraud. After five years of effort, what were the results?
“Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence (emphasis added) of any organized effort to skew federal elections…” (6)
Voter Fraud is an almost non-existent crime– and here’s one big reason why:
The penalties for voter fraud include: jail time, major fines, and deportation.
Would you risk prison, financial penalties, and being kicked out of your country—just so you could vote twice instead of once?
For more information, visit the Brennan Center, (below) experts in the field.
- https://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-efforts-disenfranchise-voters/
- https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/voter-purges
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/
- https://www.brookings.edu/articles/widespread-election-fraud-claimed-by-Republicans-dont-match-the-evidence/
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-project-2025-trump-conservative-blueprint-heritage-foundation/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12fraud.html
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12997#t=aboutBook