11/06/2012
How far down the dangerous road of non-sovereignty has this country gone when a US Senator has to plead that illegal aliens who vote should be deported? We should probably be grateful that Senator Vitter brought the subject up at all, since voter fraud is a very real threat to an honest election, but the liberal media pretends there is no such thing. The press further squawks accusations of racism any time someone suggests voter identification.
Sen. Vitter: Deport illegals who vote, Daily Caller, November 3, 2012
Illegal aliens and noncitizens who vote in U.S. elections would be put on an accelerated path toward deportation under new legislation introduced by Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter.
While this is a âseemingly common sense propositionâ there is currently no law on the books that would make voter fraud a deportable offense for foreign nationals, Vitter told the Daily Caller in an interview.
âWhile this may sound bizarre to a lot of folks in Washington D.C., illegal aliens and noncitizens have no constitutional right to vote in American elections,â he added in an emailed statement. âAnd they certainly shouldnât influence the outcomes.â (Continues)
Why would any illegal alien risk easily avoidable trouble with the feds? Presumably many rightly think punishment for immigration crimes under the Obama regime is zero.
Also, if the alienâs union strongly suggested that he vote unlawfully, then he might face more immediate punishment from SEIU thugs if he didnât vote Obama â GOTV, union-style!
BTW, the article below doesnât identify the unlawful voters as illegal aliens, but how could they be threatened with deportation otherwise?
How many noncitizens are registered to vote?, Las Vegas Review-Journal, November 4, 2012
Voter registration fraud is not a groundless conspiracy. It is not a hypothetical threat to election integrity.
In Nevada, a battleground state that could decide the presidency and control of the U.S. Senate, it is real.
Last week, I met with two immigrant noncitizens who are not eligible to vote, but who nonetheless are active registered voters for Tuesdayâs election. They said they were signed up by Culinary Local 226.
They speak and understand enough English to get by. But they donât read English especially well. They say the Culinary official who registered them to vote didnât tell them what they were signing and didnât ask whether they were citizens. The immigrants said they trusted that the union officialâs request was routine, thought nothing of it and went about their work.
Then the election drew closer. Then the Culinary canvassers started seeking them out and ordering them to go vote.
One of the immigrants was visited at home by a Culinary representative and said the operative made threats of deportation if no ballot was cast.
They didnât understand how, as noncitizens, they could be registered to vote if itâs illegal for them to vote in a U.S. election. They didnât understand that, upon being signed up, not only is their registration public record, but the record of whether theyâve voted is public as well.
After a few days of early voting, the union knew the immigrants still hadnât voted. So union canvassers kept visiting.
One day, when a Culinary representative was told the immigrant wasnât a citizen and wouldnât vote, things got testy. The immigrant was âin so much trouble,â the Culinary operative said, according to Brenda Moraine, a local immigrant advocate who was there.
The immigrants spoke with me on the condition that I provide no identifying information about them beyond their membership in the Culinary. Theyâre afraid of reprisals from the union, theyâre afraid of losing their jobs, and theyâre concerned that their signatures are on a government document that says, in part, âI swear or affirm I am a U.S. citizen. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.â
I verified their identities, their lack of citizenship and their status as active registered voters in Clark County.
One of the immigrants validated my worst fears about Nevadaâs weak voter registration standards and voting safeguards.
âThere are others,â the immigrant said.
Other noncitizen Culinary workers are registered to vote?
âYes.â
The question, now that early voting is over and Election Day is just two days away, is how many of these ineligible voters have done the Culinaryâs bidding and submitted ballots, whether out of ignorance or fear, and how many have the knowledge and courage to follow the law and stay away from the polls.
In Nevada you never have to prove youâre a citizen to register to vote or cast a ballot. Forget about showing government-issued photo identification at the polls, as several states now require. You donât have to show a photo ID at any point in the process. The immigrants I met could vote Tuesday just by showing a Culinary health insurance card and a power bill.
âOne would establish identity and one would establish residence,â Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said of state standards. âJust like every other voter in Nevada, they will not be asked to prove citizenship.â
You canât cash a check in this town with such flimsy identification.
How serious is this issue? What Iâve detailed above constitutes multiple Category E felonies.
I spoke with Yvanna Cancela, political director for the Culinary Local 226, on Friday about what these immigrants have experienced.
âThis is very, very serious,â she said. âNo one would train anyone to register noncitizens or threaten registered voters in any way.â
She said if a noncitizen were registered to vote by accident, and if they told a Culinary canvasser they werenât eligible to vote, canvassers are trained to have the person fill out a form to revoke their registration with the county. That form is immediately submitted to the county.
Cancela theorized that the canvasser who said the immigrant was âin so much troubleâ actually was pointing out that it was wrong the immigrant had been registered to vote in the first place and that the immigrant needed to be taken off the registration rolls.
One of the immigrants had filled out the paperwork to do just that. As of Friday afternoon, the immigrant was still registered to vote. On Friday, at my request, Clark County election staff sorted through every registration cancellation form they had received in the past month. The immigrantâs form wasnât among them.
âHow many donât have an advocate whoâll say, âDonât do thisâ?â Moraine asked. âHow many have no one to tell them theyâre breaking the law if they vote?â
Cancela asked me to identify the workers so the union might be able to learn which Culinary canvassers had made contact with them and who had registered them to vote. When I said I couldnât under the terms of my interview with the immigrants, she added that if they came forward, the union would take corrective action against those canvassers to make sure they understood the law.
Cancela did not know how many noncitizens are represented by the Culinary Local 226.
Iâve written extensively about voter registration through the final weeks of this campaign. In my Sept. 30 and Oct. 14 columns, I detailed how the state, at taxpayer expense, mailed post cards to an undetermined number of noncitizens, felons and deceased Nevadans inviting them to register to vote online. I reported that more than 2 percent of Clark Countyâs registered voters are âID-requiredâ â information on the applications from these first-time voters did not match state Department of Motor Vehicles records and Social Security data, thus requiring the voter to present minimal identification to be able to vote.
We should ask every voter, upon registration, to prove citizenship, but we donât. Instead, we have an honor system thatâs exceedingly easy to cheat and gives political parties and politically active groups a powerful incentive to break the law without much risk of being caught.
Perhaps a few votes wonât swing Tuesdayâs election in any race.
But what if they do?