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Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk Paperback – August 14, 2012

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The 2012 election will be one of the hardest-fought in U.S. history. It is also likely to be one of the closest, a fact that brings concerns about voter fraud and bureaucratic incompetence in the conduct of elections front and center. If we don't take notice, we could see another debacle like the Bush-Gore Florida recount of 2000 in which courts and lawyers intervened in what should have involved only voters.

Who's Counting? will focus attention on many problems of our election system, ranging from voter fraud to a slipshod system of vote counting that noted political scientist Walter Dean Burnham calls “the most careless of the developed world.” In an effort to clean up our election laws, reduce fraud and increase public confidence in the integrity of the voting system, many states ranging from Georgia to Wisconsin have passed laws requiring a photo ID be shown at the polls and curbing the rampant use of absentee ballots, a tool of choice by fraudsters. The response from Obama allies has been to belittle the need for such laws and attack them as akin to the second coming of a racist tide in American life. In the summer of 2011, both Bill Clinton and DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz preposterously claimed that such laws suppressed minority voters and represented a return to the era of Jim Crow.

But voter fraud is a well-documented reality in American elections. Just this year, a sheriff and county clerk in West Virginia pleaded guilty to stuffing ballot boxes with fraudulent absentee ballots that changed the outcome of an election. In 2005, a state senate election in Tennessee was overturned because of voter fraud. The margin of victory? 13 votes. In 2008, the Minnesota senate race that provided the 60th vote needed to pass Obamacare was decided by a little over 300 votes. Almost 200 felons have already been convicted of voting illegally in that election and dozens of other prosecutions are still pending. Public confidence in the integrity of elections is at an all-time low. In the Cooperative Congressional Election Study of 2008, 62% of American voters thought that voter fraud was very common or somewhat common. Fear that elections are being stolen erodes the legitimacy of our government. That's why the vast majority of Americans support laws like Kansas's Secure and Fair Elections Act. A 2010 Rasmussen poll showed that 82% of Americans support photo ID laws.

While Americans frequently demand observers and best practices in the elections of other countries, we are often blind to the need to scrutinize our own elections. We may pay the consequences in 2012 if a close election leads us into pitched partisan battles and court fights that will dwarf the Bush-Gore recount wars.

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John Fund is the National Affairs Columnist for National Review magazine and a frequent commentator on television. He has written on electoral irregularities for the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic and other publications.

Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former member of the Federal Election Commission. He has served as an election official in Georgia and Virginia and previously enforced federal voting rights laws at the U.S. Justice Department as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. He lives in Vienna, VA.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (August 14, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594036187
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594036187
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Well explained. More people need to pay attention to this problem.

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Andrew Baldwin

All the Voting Fraud Deniers on the Left Should Read This Book, But They Probably Won't

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Probably like a lot of people, my interest in reading this book was stimulated by President Trump’s claim that he would have won the popular vote in the last election if it were not for illegal votes cast for Clinton by non-citizens. Only Chapter 5 of the book relates to non-citizen voting, and it doesn’t provide any statistical estimates of the number of likely illegal ballots cast. However it does make clear that it is a serious problem. Rachel Maddow and the other liberal agitpropagandists Ben Shapiro rightly calls voting fraud deniers should at least read this chapter of the book before they sneer at Trump’s claim. In Chapter 13 the authors make sound recommendations on how to get rid and other types of voter fraud. They note that implementing photo ID would not by itself eliminate illegal voting by non-citizens since so many non-citizens including illegal aliens have drivers’ licenses.
Since the book was written, an important 2014 paper by Jesse T. Richman et al, “Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections?” has cast more light on this issue. The paper’s best estimate was that about 6.4% of non-citizens voted in the 2008 election. This was enough by itself to account for Democrat Al Franken’s 312-vote winning margin in the Minnesota Senate. It was an important win for the Democrats as it gave them the 60th Democratic seat in the Senate they needed to pass Obamacare. While illegal voting by non-citizens did not change the outcome of the presidential race, it likely did give Obama the state of North Carolina in the electoral college, which otherwise would have gone to his Republican challenger John McCain. Donald Trump, as the Republican presidential candidate, mentioned this in the 2016 election campaign, and got slammed for his efforts by Politifact (“Trump wrongfully says immigrants voting illegally won North Carolina for Obama in 2008”, October 18, 2016). Politifact’s innumerate scribbler, Will Doran, took a low-ball estimate of 1.5% voting by non-citizens from the study by Richman et al as their best estimate, and concluded that non-citizen votes could not have provided Obama’s winning margin. Who fact-checks the fact-checkers?)
On p.11, the authors write: “And when voters are disenfranchised by the counting of improperly cast ballots or outright fraud, their civil rights are violated just as surely as if they were prevented from voting”. This seems to be an abuse of the word “disenfranchised”, which means “deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote”. The same language reappears like a meme in the book. Surely voter fraud is a serious enough problem by itself, without mischaracterizing it.
On p.14, the authors note that “Minnesota Majority, a conservative watchdog group, has come up with compelling evidence that at least 1,099 ineligible felons voted illegally in the Franken v. Coleman contest” in 2008, about three times Franken’s slim victory margin. The authors don’t mention that Minnesota Majority started with a list of 1,359 felons, taken from just two counties, who had allegedly voted. The 1,099 figure represents a paring down of this list, which was further pared down by officials for investigation purposes. It seems strange, that given the importance of this election to the first two years of the Obama administration, all experts, including the authors, have essentially just worked with the Minnesota Majority findings. Why hasn’t anyone tried to establish the number of felons that illegally voted in the state as a whole, with proper elimination of false positives?
On p.70, the authors write:“The desperate search by the Left to find a voter who will not be able to vote due to common sense ID requirements is at times comical. When one of the authors was a guest on a radio show of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation discussing voter ID the only voter the CBC could find to interview was an elderly man from Tennessee, which had recently implemented a voter ID requirement. His complaint? He had had to switch his non-photo driver’s license with a photo, and did not realize that he could do so free of charge. He was upset that he had paid eight dollars when he went to the state office to change IDs.” Unfortunately, this radio interview was not footnoted, and after a web-search for it I was unable to find a reference to it, although CBC radio does keep most such interviews on archive for many years. As a Canadian, though, I admire the authors’ acumen in being able to smell out CBC radio as a vehicle of the political left when they must have had only scant exposure to it. I have heard Hans von Spakovsky interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current on another topic; I don’t know if John Fund has ever been interviewed by the CBC. The network doesn’t interview a lot of conservatives though. It has a definite liberal (and Liberal) bias.

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Mark T Tindall

How weak voting laws allow the powerful to corrupt elections

Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2012

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Who's Counting is a book that reports many of the ways candidates can sway elections under our nation's varied and most-times flawed election rules. States have the duty to create and enforce election laws, and many laws enable organized efforts aimed at subverting elections and stealing electoral wins.

Most of the negative reviews of this book focus on the preponderance of examples cited by the authors that focus on Democratic Party misdeeds. At times, I agree that the authors appear to be a bit heavy handed towards Democrats. Nonetheless, the authors cite misdeeds by Republicans and Democrats. Further, they cite problems with Democrats when they control a party in an area and prevent fair elections between Democrat candidates in primaries. They also show how some political machines in African American dominated areas use weak election laws and law enforcement to control elections and prevent honest African American candidates to compete fairly. Basically, they show how black politicians have sometimes subjugated their black citizens.

The point of the book is that American election law is broken and is moving farther from a model that will encourage increased voter turnout and confidence that votes really count. One reason the authors are so critical of Democrats is that the Democratic party has repeately rejected Voter ID as a reasonable and important requirement for fair elections. The authors are clear that Voter ID laws alone will not solve the most important problems for fair elections, but it is obvious that requirements for voters to prove that they are residents in their precincts and are eligible to vote are common-sense solutions to some of the problems.

I was disappointed to read about the problems with mail-in voting and inaccurate voter registration. Democrats also seem to reject the idea that cleaning up voter registration databases is important. Fraudulent voter registration is oftentimes the first step toward creating the ability to cast numerous fraudulent votes. Mail-in voting, in the form of absentee ballots or early voting, basically guarantees that massive voting fraud can be successful when combined with phoney registrations. In landslide elections, mail-in voter fraud cannot tip an election, but in closer elections it is relatively easy to create hundreds and thousands of fraudulent ballots. I want it to be easy for every citizen to cast their vote, but mail-in voting appears to be a serious threat to fair elections. Most of the election rigging cited by the authors involves absentee and mail-in ballots.

This is why I don't understand Democratic Party objections to Voter ID and other election regulations that reduce the ability for big-money, well-organized candidates to steal elections. If they really believe that big money is corupting elections, they they should be for Voter ID and for the reduction of mail-in voting. The authors clearly show how easy it is for political machines to dominate elections because of weak voting laws. So, Democrats, do you believe that Republicans are corrupting elections? If so, fix the voting laws! And that does not mean by rejecting Voter ID, rejecting the clean up of voter registration, and allowing undocumented mail-in voting!

If Democrats are not going to be part of the solution, then they must be part of the problem. Too many extreme Democrats deny the existence of organized voter fraud. This book proves that they are wrong. As Americans, we should all be part of the solution. This is an important book. Without reform, our elections will be controlled by political machines and big money--Republican or Democrat, or both--while ordinary citizens suffer.

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Dr. Johnny Duncan

Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk

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Misters Fund and Spakovsky do an admirable jobs of highlighting some of the shortcomings of American Democracy. Voter identification is a necessity in order to insure fair elections, especially in rural areas where political bullying takes place. I was particularly interested in Chapter 6, on Greene County, Alabama. In the late Seventies, I did political work in Greene County. I labored side by side with Spiver Gordon, and shot craps with Frank Smith, Lester "Bop" Brown and others. I have a first hand knowledge of the validity of the information contained in this book. In 1978, prior to the the research, Maggie Bozeman and Julia Wilder of Aliceville, Alabama were convicted of absentee voter fraud for trying to help Spiver Gordon get elected to the Alabama House of Representative. John Kenard, Earlean Isaac and the whole Greene Gang are people whom I know well. Booker Cooke, Jr. and other democrats shunned me because I didn't go along with their shennanigans. I joined the army in 1981 to escape, and in all probability escaped going to prison with them. Great reading! Should be mandatory reading for voter registrars around the country.

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