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REBECCA MANSOUR and JAMES P. PINKERTON
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\u201cYou never want a serious crisis to go to waste,\u201d\u00a0Democratic political operative Rahm Emanuel famously\u00a0said<\/a>.\u00a0The former Chicago mayor\u2019s point was that a crisis gives political players the opportunity to bend, and maybe even break, the normal rules.<\/p>\n Today, the country is facing a Covid-19 crisis, as well as a crisis of rioting in the streets and a\u00a0spiking crime rate<\/a>, and now even a vacancy on the Supreme Court.\u00a0But as far as Democrats are concerned, the\u00a0real crisis<\/em>\u00a0is Donald Trump, and these other crises provide an opportunity to defeat him.<\/p>\n With less than 40 days until Election Day\u2014and with early voting starting even sooner\u2014Democrats and their media allies (or the \u201cDemocrat-Media Complex,\u201d as Andrew Breitbart liked to\u00a0call them<\/a>) are not wasting these crises in their quest to win back the White House.<\/p>\n We can see a seven-step Democratic strategy emerge to win the election by unleashing chaos in our voting system, violence in our streets, and a legal fight that could lead all the way to highest court in the land, which is currently missing a member.<\/p>\n 1. Never let a Covid crisis go to waste! Use the pandemic to push for a nation-wide vote-by-mail scheme.<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n By now we\u2019re all familiar with the inequities, even idiocies, of the Covid-19 lockdown rules. In many states and cities, it\u2019s forbidden to have normal assembly for social gatherings, businesses, church services, and even hospital visits.<\/p>\n On the other hand, it\u2019s okay to have massive Black Lives Matter protests, Antifa riots, and anything else the left approves of, at least tacitly.\u00a0Obviously, such unequal treatment is a formula for societal frustration, rage, and, yes, chaos.<\/p>\n And what a friend the Democrats have in crisis and chaos!<\/p>\n In fact, Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris\u00a0has said<\/a>\u00a0that this sort of chaos is likely to continue\u2014and\u00a0should continue\u2014<\/em>through the election. \u201cEveryone beware because they\u2019re not going to stop,\u201d Harris said about the (often violent<\/a>) protests erupting in American cities. \u201cThey\u2019re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they\u2019re not going to stop after Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n But according to the Democrats, the only certainty in all of this chaos is that Americans\u2014who are safe to take to the streets in mass protests and riots\u2014are not safe to vote in person on November 3. We must vote by mail, they tell us.<\/p>\n Mail-in voting is \u201cessential from a health reason because we want to keep people at home to vote without having them all collect on Election Day,\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0last month. \u201cPeople should not have to choose between their health and their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re still scratching your head wondering why it\u2019s safe to riot but not to vote, veteran political consultant\u00a0Dick Morris<\/a>\u00a0explained the Democrats\u2019 game plan: \u201cIf they feel they\u2019re legitimately losing the election, [they] are going to use the excuse of the Covid virus\u2014nobody can come out and vote in person, they claim \u2026 and they\u2019re going to deliberately game the system by sending out millions and millions of mail-in ballots for people that don\u2019t exist or have already voted.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the states will not verify the [mail-in ballot] signatures because they are under the control of Democrats,\u201d Morris added.<\/p>\n 2. Enlist all the messengers at your disposal (Hollywood, Corporate Media, Big Tech, Pro Sports) to push for vote-by-mail.<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n The Democrats are using every tool in their considerable arsenal to push the vote-by-mail messaging, including\u00a0multi-million-dollar super PAC<\/a>\u00a0ad campaigns. Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen.\u00a0Amy Klobuchar\u00a0has teamed<\/a>\u00a0up with failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to mandate a national vote-by-mail system, and a group called\u00a0Stop Republicans<\/a>\u00a0has launched a digital blitz to push for the idea.<\/p>\n But the Democrats\u2019 favorite tool is, of course, Hollywood and pop culture.<\/p>\n As early as April, about a month into the coronavirus shutdown, the Hollywood wing of the Democrat-Media Complex kicked into high gear to push vote-by-mail.<\/p>\n Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, who were among the first big name figures to contract Covid-19,\u00a0teamed up<\/a>\u00a0with former First Lady Michelle Obama and former Obama White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett in April for an ostensibly non-partisan virtual voter registration drive that encouraged states to loosen vote-by-mail requirements.<\/p>\n Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson joined former First Lady Michelle Obama for a virtual get out the vote event on April 20, 2020, to encourage people to sign up for mail-in voting. (YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In August, a group of A-list celebrities\u00a0hosted<\/a>\u00a0a virtual \u201cUnited to Save the Vote\u201d gala\u2014which they claimed was \u201cfiercely nonpartisan\u201d\u2014to raise money to \u201cprotect the 2020 election\u201d by, in part, increasing trust in mail-in voting. The virtual roster included Jennifer Lawrence, Jamie Foxx, Dave Matthews, Ed Helms, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Sia, Jake Johnson, Sarah Silverman, Kenan Thompson, Chelsea Handler, Gloria Estefan, Randall Park, Erich Bergen, Nick Kroll, Sophia Bush, Jonathan Scott, Kenny G., George Lopez,\u00a0etc. You get the picture.<\/p>\n According to the event\u2019s website,\u00a0these<\/a>\u00a0zealously<\/a>\u00a0anti-Trump<\/a>\u00a0\u201cfiercely nonpartisan\u201d celebs\u00a0gathered<\/a>\u00a0virtually to counter the efforts of \u201cpoliticians who are undermining the security and validity of mail-in voting.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Democrat-Media Complex is engaged in a bit of journalistic jujitsu churning out stories about how the\u00a0Republicans<\/em>\u00a0are the ones who plan to steal the election. Here\u2019s a\u00a0headline<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>: \u201cRepublicans\u2019 long-term vote heist matters more than Trump\u2019s tantrums.\u201d And here\u2019s\u00a0one<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>:\u00a0\u201cThe Plot Against America: The GOP\u2019s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election.\u201d\u00a0But it\u2019s hard to top this\u00a0headline<\/a>\u00a0from the Daily Beast: \u201cThis Is How Republicans Steal an Election, and Maybe Kill Some Dems in the Process.\u201d<\/p>\n At the same time, the Democrat-Media Complex is also celebrating the\u00a0new wokeness of pro sports<\/a>, which is busy helping Democrats win in November. On September 7,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Politico\u00a0asked<\/a>, \u201cCould LeBron James Defeat Donald Trump?\u201d As has been widely reported, the National Basketball Association\u00a0has agreed to\u00a0set up<\/a>\u00a0a \u201csocial justice coalition\u201d to help get out the (Democrat) vote.<\/p>\n 3. Get millions of questionable mail-in ballots into the system.\u00a0<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n Here we might pause to note the distinction between the various kinds of voting by mail.<\/p>\n It is true that absentee voting by mail has been with us for many years. Even President Trump has\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a0by mail, and our active duty military regularly\u00a0votes<\/a>\u00a0by mail. In fact, Republicans have been quite successful in the past with absentee voting. In Florida in 2016, for example, more Republicans\u00a0voted<\/a>\u00a0by mail than Democrats, and Trump carried the state. There is even\u00a0legitimate concern<\/a>\u00a0that any disparagement of mail-in voting could unintentionally hurt Republicans in November because their voters like voting by absentee ballots. Indeed, there are sincere and legitimate reasons for why absentee voting should be available during the pandemic.<\/p>\n However, there is a big difference between allowing absentee ballots as an option for people who are unable to make it to the polls and mandating that an entire election be done by mail-in voting.<\/p>\n And there is a really big\u00a0difference<\/a>\u00a0between the long-standing practice of sending absentee ballots to voters who take the initiative of requesting them and the new Democratic proposal to mail out unsolicited ballots (or applications for ballots) to every registered voter regardless of whether those voters are still alive or eligible to vote in that jurisdiction. And, as we shall explain, this new effort to mail out ballots to every registered voter is coupled with the left\u2019s years-long fight to prevent these same voter rolls from being updated to remove dead and ineligible people from the lists.<\/p>\n And to make matters extra complicated and chaotic, every state has a different standard for mail-in voting. Some states have\u00a0more safeguards<\/a>\u00a0in place than others. For example, some states require that every mail-in ballot include a verifiable signature, additional witness or notary signatures, and even an enclosed copy of the voter\u2019s photo ID. Some states have few, if any, such safeguards. Some states\u00a0are loosening or experimenting<\/a>\u00a0with the rules for the first time due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n And then there is the issue of sending all these ballots through the mail. Can the U.S. Postal Service process them all in a timely manner? Every state has a different deadline for when these ballots need to be postmarked. What happens if they don\u2019t arrive in time? Can election officials process them all in a timely manner? Counting mail-in ballots is much more\u00a0time-consuming<\/a>. It can involve matching signatures, checking postmarks, flattening out ballots that were crumpled in the mail, etc. If the recent primaries in\u00a0Wisconsin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0are anything to go by, mail-in ballots will take weeks to process and that process will be fraught with problems and\u00a0potential for fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n (To give you a flavor of the postal chaos to come, the chief clerk for Brooklyn\u2019s Kings County Board of Elections\u00a0testified<\/a>\u00a0in federal court last month that in 2018, the USPS delivered \u201cseveral hundred absentee ballots from the previous November\u201d \u2014 which was \u201cfive months after Election Day.\u201d And in Wisconsin this week, three trays of mail, which included absentee ballots, were\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0in a ditch.)<\/p>\n Election officials take receipt of a dolly loaded with mail-in ballots at election offices in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, on May 27, 2020. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There is also the issue of how voters can apply to vote by mail and who is eligible to do so. According to\u00a0FiveThirtyEight<\/a>, nine states and the District of Columbia will simply mail every registered citizen a ballot.\u00a0In another 14 states, authorities will mail everyone an\u00a0application<\/em>\u00a0to vote by mail.\u00a0(Although, as we shall see, some states take a generous view of who, or what, might be eligible to receive such applications if outside interest groups decide to mail them out.)\u00a0In 16 states,\u00a0nothing<\/em>\u00a0is automatically mailed to voters, although voters can apply online to vote by mail. In six states, voting by mail is permissible only with a \u201cvalid excuse.\u201d\u00a0And the remaining states are some hybrid of the preceding categories.<\/p>\n All of these different rules provide plenty of opportunity to game the system on questions ranging from the verification of identity, addresses, and signatures to the timeliness of postmarks and the ability of the postal service to deliver ballots in a timely manner.\u00a0Because there are so many \u201cmoving parts\u201d to the vote-by-mail process, mail-in ballots are fraught with the potential for fraud. Yes, we\u2019ve seen voter fraud before,\u00a0but we ain\u2019t seen nothing yet. The further we get from requiring that voters go to the polls to vote in person, the more we expand the avenues for fraud.<\/p>\n Consider, for example, the fraud potential that comes with mailing ballots to every registered voter. Back in 2012,\u00a0a\u00a0Pew Center study\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a01.8 million dead people<\/a>\u00a0were still registered to vote and that 24 million voter registrations were un-confirmable.<\/p>\n Though some states have made progress in updating their voting rolls since the 2012 Pew study, a comprehensive analysis\u00a0conducted<\/a>\u00a0this year by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) found that 349,773 apparently dead people still remain on the voter rolls across 41 states. And apparently the dead still\u00a0vote<\/em>! The report also discovered a surprising number of people who apparently voted more than once.<\/p>\n The report\u00a0found<\/a>:<\/p>\n During the 2018 General Election,\u00a037,889 likely duplicate registrants are apparently credited for casting two votes from the same address, and 34,000 registrants appear to have voted from non-residential addresses. Additionally, 6,718 registrants were apparently credited for voting after death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the\u00a0report<\/a>, New York, Texas, Michigan, Florida, and California were the top five states with dead voters on the rolls, accounting for 51 percent of all the dead registrants. The crucial swing states of Michigan and Florida had 34,225 and 25,162 dead registrants respectively.<\/p>\n That would seem to be a serious indictment of the system and a warning against mailing unsolicited mail-in ballots or even mail-in ballot applications to everyone on the voter rolls. But Democrats are working hard to\u00a0bulldoze the path for vote-by mail, or, as Breitbart News often calls it,\u00a0cheat<\/em>-by-mail.\u00a0Democratic governors in\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0have already moved to ease vote-by-mail, as have local officials\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0<\/strong>Harris County, TX<\/a>, population 4.7 million. Oh, and did we mention that in Nevada\u2019s June primary, more than\u00a0223,000 ballots<\/a>\u00a0in Clark County (Las Vegas) went to a bum address? That means almost a\u00a0fifth<\/em>\u00a0of all the ballots mailed out in the county went to a bum address.<\/p>\n Election workers process mail-in ballots during a nearly all-mail primary election in Las Vegas, NV, on June 9, 2020. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But, you might ask, why don\u2019t we just make sure the voter rolls are accurate by removing people who have moved or died? Why don\u2019t we have a standardized signature verification protocol and a requirement for an additional witness signature and photo ID for mail-in ballots to ensure they are legit? Good questions. The answer is the left fights these reforms.<\/p>\n Left-wing groups want to\u00a0expand<\/a>\u00a0access to voting by\u00a0registering<\/a>\u00a0as many people as possible, but they also fight to\u00a0block<\/a>\u00a0meaningful efforts to ensure that only eligible American citizens are voting. When Republicans enact legislation to encourage transparency and accuracy in our voting process by removing dead or ineligible voters from the rolls or mandating some form of identity verification, left-wing activists challenge these initiatives in court to stop any reform.<\/p>\n Eric Eggers, the author of\u00a0Fraud: How the Left Plans to Steal the Next Election<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0to Breitbart News how left-wing interest groups have fought for years to keep the loopholes that could potentially create a \u201ctsunami of voter fraud\u201d in November.<\/p>\n \u201cOrganizations that are funded by George Soros both fight to keep those vulnerabilities in place, as in Ohio, by trying to prevent efforts to pass voter-ID laws or to make the voter rolls more secure,\u201d Eggers said. \u201cBut then they also \u2014 and this is really the insidious part \u2014 they fund organizations that go out and round up voters, regardless of legality of their status, and force them through the vulnerabilities in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere are 248 counties in this country that have more registered voters than actual citizens of legal voting age,\u201d Eggers said. \u201cIt\u2019s a problem because it creates opportunity for organizations like the formerly known ACORN and La Raza \u2014 they\u2019re all funded by [billionaire George] Soros \u2014 to go and figure out where the vulnerabilities are and force the voters \u2014 whether they\u2019re legal or not \u2014 through the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n But according to the establishment media, the instances of mail-in voter fraud are \u201cinfinitesimally small<\/a>.\u201d And to prove\u00a0this<\/a>, the media loves to\u00a0quote<\/a>\u00a0the \u201cnon-partisan\u201d Brennan Center for Justice. What the media fails to tell you is that the Soros-funded Brennan Center\u00a0is leading the charge<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0expand<\/a>\u00a0mail-in voting. They don\u2019t just have a dog in this fight \u2014 they have a whole kennel! Quoting the Brennan Center to deny the reality of mail-in voter fraud is like quoting Big Tobacco to deny that smoking causes cancer.<\/p>\n And yet when Donald Trump or any Republican points out the obvious vulnerabilities in our voting system, the Democrat-Media Complex quotes biased sources to vilify Republicans. Nancy Pelosi actually\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0President Trump and Republicans \u201cenemies of the state\u201d for expressing concerns about vote-by-mail\u2019s fraud potential.<\/p>\n It seems fair to say that Democrats are making sure that the system works for\u00a0them<\/em>. Recently,\u00a0Politico\u00a0headlined<\/a>\u00a0a long piece, \u201cInside the Democratic Party\u2019s plan to prevent vote-by-mail disaster,\u201d detailing the efforts of the party, and its well-funded allies, to win the November mail war.<\/p>\n A key part of that plan is legal challenges.\u00a0For instance, in Georgia, the\u00a0American Civil Liberties Union\u00a0accused<\/a>\u00a0the state government of wrongfully purging nearly 200,000 voters from the rolls. In this legal battle, the ACLU is joined by the\u00a0Palast Investigative Fund<\/a>, one of the myriad \u201cnon-partisan\u201d foundations that the Democrats always have at their side.<\/p>\n Yet in the meantime, the ACLU has nothing to say when we discover, for example, that during the 2020 Michigan primaries, the number of ballots counted in\u00a072 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Detroit\u2019s\u00a0absentee ballot precincts<\/a>\u00a0didn\u2019t match the number of ballots cast. And the votes counted in 46 percent of all of Detroit\u2019s precincts\u2013both absentee and in-person\u2013didn\u2019t match the number of ballots tracked in the precinct poll books.\u00a0For perspective on what such abnormalities might portend for the next election, we might observe that Detroit has a population of 670,000. In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan by a mere 10,704 votes.<\/p>\n Oh, and did we mention that a federal lawsuit filed last year\u00a0alleged<\/a>\u00a0that the city of Detroit had over 2,500 dead people still registered on its voter rolls, and about 4,788 registered Detroit voters were flagged as having potentially registered to vote twice or even three times. But I\u2019m sure none of those dead people will vote by mail, right?<\/p>\n Oh, and while we\u2019re on Michigan, we should also mention that Jocelyn Benson, Michigan\u2019s Democratic Secretary of State who was\u00a0endorsed<\/a>\u00a0by Joe Biden and was a featured\u00a0speaker<\/a>\u00a0at the Democratic National Convention, misprinted the ballots that were created for Michigan voters serving in the military overseas. Guess which candidate was listed incorrectly? You guessed it: Trump! The bad ballots list the Libertarian Party\u2019s vice presidential candidate as President Trump\u2019s running mate instead of Mike Pence. But don\u2019t worry. The spokesperson for Michigan\u2019s Democratic-Biden-endorsed-DNC-speaking Secretary of State has assured us that clerks \u201cwill be instructed to duplicate a vote for Trump\u201d for any military voter who mails in one of these misprinted ballots.<\/p>\n Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) speaking during the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 20, 2020. (DNC via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In the face of all this potentially embarrassing data, the Democrats have decided that the best defense is a good offense.\u00a0For instance,\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0stays on the offensive, regularly\u00a0accusing<\/a>\u00a0President Trump of seeking to squelch vote-by-mail; but he never allows that vote-by-mail might need to be\u00a0reformed<\/em>.\u00a0Biden charged on September 7 that Trump \u201cwants to make sure those mail-in ballots don\u2019t get where they\u2019re supposed to get.\u201d<\/p>\n We might wonder: If Biden routinely accuses Trump of cheating, should we be surprised if Democratic activists get the hint and decide that they could, and should, cheat on Biden\u2019s behalf? After all, they might rationalize these efforts as fighting fire with fire.<\/p>\n Cheat-inclined Democrats might draw inspiration from an anonymous Democratic consultant in New Jersey who recently\u00a0confessed<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0that \u201cfraud is more the rule than the exception.\u201d The consultant explained the various ways in which political operatives can harvest mail-in ballots, change them by inserting different ballots into the envelope, use friendly postal workers to disappear ballots in neighborhoods that lean Republican, and so forth. A few hundred bogus ballots here and there can change an election.<\/p>\n \u201cAn election that is swayed by 500 votes, 1,000 votes \u2014 it can make a difference,\u201d the Democratic operative said. \u201cIt could be enough to flip states.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, even Democratic pets can make a difference\u2014and they don\u2019t even have to be alive!<\/em>\u00a0Recently in Atlanta, a family got a voter registration application in the mail for their\u00a0deceased house cat<\/a>\u00a0named Cody.<\/p>\n How did that happen, you ask? Well, outside\u00a0third-party groups<\/a>\u00a0can rent mailing lists and randomly send everyone on the list an absentee-ballot application or voter registration application that they downloaded from the state\u2019s election website. Have you ever used your pet\u2019s name to subscribe to something because you didn\u2019t want junk mail in your own name? If so, don\u2019t be surprised if Fluffy or Spot gets a voter registration or absentee ballot application in the mail.<\/p>\n Georgia\u2019s election officials\u00a0assure<\/a>\u00a0us that Cody the cat would not have been able to vote at the polls in the Peach State because the cat doesn\u2019t have a license or state ID. But one wonders if he would be allowed to vote by mail, assuming his registration application cleared. And, of course, not every state\u00a0requires<\/a>\u00a0a photo ID to vote like Georgia does.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2020\/09\/27443538-8239233-image-a-6_1587442046298.jpg\")
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