Quick Follow-up to "Why Are Nearly ALL Conservative Pundits Quiet About This?"

Some people have asked me if the described method of cheating is what happened in 2020, why did we not see it so much in 2022...

This will add some clarity as to why we didn’t see the same tactics work in as many states during the 2022 midterm elections.

Many states changed laws (or made laws where none existed) to stop mass mail-in voting schemes that were used in 2020. For my example, I’ll look at Florida and Georgia, because Florida went pretty much as expected, but the senate race in Georgia didn’t go as expected.

Here are the major changes Florida has made since the 2020 election.

• Limits on drop boxes

• Double the work required to apply for mail-in ballots

• New voter ID requirements

• A limit on ballot collection

• A restriction on unsolicited mail-in ballots

• A ban on donations to elections agencies

• Broadened restrictions on “solicitation”

• A mandatory warning about registration efforts

• More rights for partisan observers

• Increased vacancy-filling power for the governor

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Here are the major changes Georgia has made since the 2020 election.

• Tighten or impose voter ID requirements for mail voting

• Shorten window to apply for a mail ballot

• Limit the number, location, or availability of mail ballot drop boxes

• Limit early voting days or hours

• Eliminate or limit sending mail ballot applications to voters who do not specifically request them

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As you can, see these changes greatly effect the ability to collect mail-in ballots.

The only thing missing is cleaning the voter rolls. And that must be done by a group other than ERIC (Electronic Registration Information Center) or any Soros affiliated group.

Last Thursday The Gateway Pundit revealed Democrats and leftists have fought ferociously to prevent the cleanup of State voter registration rolls. Recognizing a potential niche, left-wing activists created ERIC to clean voter rolls their way, using their rules. So in 2012 the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) was formed as a membership organization primarily for blue States. ERIC is essentially a left wing voter registration drive disguised as voter roll clean up. But it’s been gaining traction in Red States too. Originally funded by the Soros Open Society, it is now responsible for cleaning the voter rolls in 31 States, plus D.C. A top election official from each member State is appointed a seat on the ERIC Board or as an Officer, all unpaid positions.

On Friday [January 14, 2022] we reported on how ERIC is working — The Largest U.S. Counties Removed Only ZERO to TWO Ineligible Voters From Their Voter Rolls the Last 4 Years

October 16, 2020: Judicial Watch found that many states had many more registered voters than they had eligible voters.

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a September 2020 study 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% of eligible voters. The study found eight states showing state-wide registration rates exceeding 100%: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

There are 353 counties that have more registered voters than eligible voters for a total of 1.8 million phantom voters. Meanwhile ERIC has removed at most 2 ineligible voters from the two largest counties in the country over a 4-year period? Like I said in the previous post, ERIC was designed to keep the voter rolls dirty.

Both Florida and Georgia use ERIC; however, whether or not voter rolls are purged depends on state laws. To what extent Georgia and Florida have cleaned up their voter rolls since 2020 I don’t know. But a few years back “progressive” groups were complaining about it. Only they were looking at Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.

Earlier this summer, when the Brennan Center released a report examining voter purge data through 2016, we found that four million more people were purged from the rolls between the federal elections of 2014 and 2016 than between 2006 and 2008. Much of that increase came from states that were previously required under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to get election changes cleared in advance, before that part of the law was eviscerated by the Supreme Court in 2013.  

Although comparable data for the two years ending in 2018 won’t be available until early next year, we were able to use different data sources to figure out how many voters have been purged over the past two years in three states we had studied — Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. A preliminary analysis supports our initial alarm over the purge processes in these three states, showing that they continued to have high purge rates.

Purges in and of themselves aren’t bad. They’re commonly used to clean up voter lists when someone has moved, passed away, and more. But too often, names identified for removal are determined by faulty criteria that wrongly suggests a voter be deleted from the rolls. When flawed, the process threatens to silence eligible voters on Election Day — especially in states where purge rates are high.  

A little history: The portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were struck down dealt with whether certain states had to get federal approval before making changes to their own voting laws. This was not constitutional to begin with, as it violated states’ rights, and wasn’t equal under the law, but it was allowed because there were certain states that were trying to limit people’s access to voting based on race. That is no longer the case. That’s why those sections were removed.

The Brennan Center was complaining about voter rolls being purged in 2014 - 2016, around 4 million people. Keep in mind the report from 2020 report from Judicial Watch found 1.8 million more registered voters than eligible voting-age citizens.

Needless to say, if “voting rights” groups are worried about 4 million people Phantoms (let’s call them what they are) being removed from the rolls in the 2014 - 2016 time span, and we still had 1.8 million in 2020, how many more Phantoms are there now? How many states are actually trying to clean up their voter rolls, or have laws in place to specify that voter rolls are cleaned frequently enough to keep up with normal deaths and migration?

Perhaps this will shed a little light on why things came out the way they did this time.

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