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January 25th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HealthMax Group
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said she feels sorry for President Donald Trump after word that he is planning an investigation into voter fraud during the 2016 election – a claim he revived recently to explain how Hillary Clinton received 2.8 million more votes, beating him in the popular vote.
Pelosi said: “For a person who is newly elected president of the United States to be so insecure…to suggest and to undermine the integrity of our voting system, is really strange. I frankly feel very sad about the president making this claim. I felt sorry for him. I even prayed for him.”
Pelosi was present at the congressional meeting where Trump told lawmakers that he lost the popular vote because millions of illegal immigrants voted for Clinton.
At the meeting, Pelosi told the president that his claim is false.
Because the president has made these claims without providing evidence of illegals voting, Democrats have written a letter to US attorneys in all 50 states, asking for a list of known voter fraud cases from the last election.
Congressman Elijah Cummings, ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (OGRC) noted: “The thing that I worry about with this argument about voter fraud is it gives the Republicans and others another tool and another reason to justify to the public of denying people the right to vote.”
Cummings is joined by Representatives James Clyburn and Bob Brady in calling for this independent investigation in alleged voter fraud.
The House Reps said “the president can join” them in this investigation and “we will show him that there is not voter fraud.”
The president announced that a “major investigation” into his voter fraud claim will ensue “including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and … even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time).”
Trump added: “Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”
During the second official press conference with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, he defended the president’s voter fraud claims without providing evidence.
Spicer told the press: “”It was a comment that he made on a long-standing belief. He believes what he believes.”
Trump’s voter fraud fantasy is a long standing myth of the GOP used to justify voter suppression.
With voter fraud being essentially non-existent, it cannot effect the integrity of our electoral process, and yet it is a regular point of contention manifested by the GOP and their corresponding media outlets.
According to Project Vote, voter fraud is the “intentional corruption of the electoral process by the voter” by way of influencing the election.
Election fraud is very different because it is a combination of suppression and fraud that results in electoral manipulation. The Department of Justice (DoJ) has identified a dozen ways to achieve this goal; however fraud committed by the voter is still extremely rare.
In the majority of cases, it is an electoral campaign official or worker, and/or the candidate themselves who is responsible for the chicanery. From absentee ballots or falsifying tally results, to preventing voters from casting a ballot to intimidation techniques, there are plenty of ways to cause the outcome to be favorable to one side over another.
But in the end, the real problem that threatens out voting process is voter suppression – the system republicans have installed across the country to prevent “certain” people from either registering to vote, or finding a polling station to cast their ballot.
Just six years ago, the republican candidate for governor ran robocalls to an estimated 112,000 African-American voters, telling them that the red team had the election in the bag, and it was futile to go out a vote.
Lorraine Minnite, political scientist for Rutgers University explained that the GOP’s strategy of voter suppression is upheld under “the guise of an integrity issue”.
Back in January of 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas for “illegal demands for additional proof of citizenship for people” registering to vote when renewing or applying for a driver’s license.
In the complaint, the ACLU accused the state of Kansas from blocking more than 35,000 potential voters from voting for 24 months (equal to 14% of new registrants), because they were required to product documents such as a US birth certificate or valid passport.
When compared to federal law, this 2013 change in Kansas is an overreach of federal requirements; as well as a prevention of potential democratic votes cast by minority and younger voters.
In making the change, government of Kansas effectively violated a significant amount of voters with the purpose of attempting to say the vote in the GOP’s favor by making it difficult for monitories, students and the poor from casting a vote for a democrat.
Ralph Ortiz, a U.S. Air Force veteran who registered to vote in Kansas while renewing his driver’s license, was suspended from voting because he failed to “provide additional proof of citizenship”.
Because of the voter ID law, 44% of 18 to 29 year old Kansas natives and 54% of non-party affiliated voters have been prevented from their constitutional right to vote.
Kansas is one of 5 Republican controlled states that have enacted proof-of-citizenship laws, beginning with Arizona in 2004. That law was struck down by the US Supreme Court (USSC) 3 years ago, writing in their opinion: “We conclude that the fairest reading of the statute is that a state-imposed requirement of evidence of citizenship not required by the federal form is ‘inconsistent with’ the NVRA’s mandate that states ‘accept and use’ the federal form.”
Susanne Posel
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