By Nancy Thorner -
Our Democratic Republic flourishes when citizens are confident their vote is free, fair, and secure. According to a recent survey, 81% of Americans believe that election fraud is a very real problem.
This growing concern jeopardizes our entire system of government, eroding our trust in elected leaders and undermining our confidence in the system by which they govern, beginning at the polls and rising up through the highest offices in the land, despite the misleading messaging of those who insist voter fraud does not exist. It does!
On Sunday, May 17th, Thorner was invited to join a webinar by host James Simpson, featuring Catherine Englebrecht of True the Vote at 6:30 pm EDT.
A conservative Republican, Simpson is running in U.S. House District 2 in Maryland against six other competitors in his primary race.
According to Simpson, it is critical to win back the GOP majority in the House of Representatives. As to this November’s election, it could very well be the most important election in this country's history.
As described by Jim Simpson, Ms. Englebrecht is one of the biggest fighters on the conservative side. She created True the Vote from "whole cloth" and has been through the mill for our cause. In 2011 she won the Ronald Reagan Award at CPAC.
Englebrecht, as founder of True the Vote, explains here the history of True the Vote, and her reasons for beginning the initiative.
Englebrecht's presentation
Ms. Englebrecht presented an update on the threats to our electoral system and the left's attempts to change it and, of course, CHEAT. Her main item of discussion was how the Secretaries of State around this nation are imposing universal mail-in voting by administrative fiat, which consequently removes safeguards against fraudulent voters; usurps the legislature; and violates citizens' constitutional rights.
The push by states to have all mail-in ballots is happening because of the rapid-fire change of the elector process prompted by the coronavirus. To paraphrase Ms. Englebrecht: “The Left plays the long game inch by inch. We have now arrived at the end game. Through administrative fiat police power, mail in ballots are being mandated by states. This has resulted in so many individual lawsuits being filed that the system can't keep up with them. Likewise of concern is that the push for mail-in ballots is being mandated in many places that are not equipped or even prepared to handle them.”
Given the amount of litigation happening all over this nation, Englebrecht believes Vote by Mail could end up in the Supreme Court.”
President Trump is aware of the possibility and likelihood of fraud with mail-in ballots. On Wednesday, May 20, 2020, President Donald Trump threatened to request to hold federal funding to Michigan and Nevada over widespread mail voting schemes.
Mail-in Ballots
Mail-in ballots allow voting rolls to be inflated, as ballot are send to everyone, even inactive voters, those who have moved, and the deceased whose names have not been removed from a state's voting rolls.
Not surprising is that vote fraud often targets the most vulnerable voters, including the elderly and the poor.
Absentee ballots have therefore become the tools of choice of election fraudsters, because they are voted outside the supervision of election officials, making it easier to steal, forge, or alter them, as well as to intimidate voters.
Going entirely to by-mail elections would unwisely endanger the security and integrity of the election process, particularly if officials automatically mail absentee ballots to all registered voters without a signed, authenticated request from each voter.
In this age of Amazon when things are just one click away, two out of three Americans have been convinced that mail-in ballots are more convenient.
Ms. Englebrecht referred to the political strategy of Cloward/Piven to compare what happened 54 years ago to today’s push for nation-wide mail-in ballots. Their strategy was outlined in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nationtitled, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty", as a way to create an orchestrated crisis to collapse the American system — one that would bear down with such intensity that the system had no better option but to crash.
Given a tsunami of mail-in ballots, there would be no way to manage so much paper in a system not set up for it.
Ballot harvesting
Ms. Englebrecht also touched on the issue of ballot harvesting. Ballot harvesting first came into play when ACORN, a community-based advocacy organization, founded in 1970 and shut down in 2010, when facing allegations of vote fraudrelated to voter registration drives conducted by the organization. ACORN conducted large-scale voter registration drives. The organization said it helped register more than 1.3 million new voters in 21 states in 2007 and 2008.
Ballot harvesting is now legal in some states and a way for Democrats to commit fraud. Ballots are picked up, distributed and then turned in. Groups are being funded to do ballot harvesting. The elderly as sitting ducks for vote harvesters.
As for Virginia's Voter ID provision, Voter ID was declared illegal by Governor Northam. It was then mandated that all residents were to be declared disabled to legitimize all mail-in ballots because of coronavirus.
It is unconscionable that we are the only industrial nation in the world that doesn't have a form of voter ID. Previously referred to as authors of the May,1966 article, The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty, Clower/Piven opened up this nation to the mess we have today with our voter rolls.
Richard Cloward, along with and his wife, Frances Fox Piven, were the primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 known as "Motor Voter" National Registration Act law, which took them 10 years to write. It opened up this nation to the mess we have today and remains the standard because messed up voter rolls can be manipulated for political gain.
Personal responsibility and action
In closing, Ms. Englebrecht stressed that voting this year is not enough. She advised listeners to get on Ballot Review Boards and to be poll watchers, acknowledging that being a poll worker involves a long day and not many states allow for shift poll workers. Englebrecht does think Trump will be served well by having Mark Meadows as his Chief of Staff. She also related how Trump does read comments that appear on the White House comment site.
The November election depends on us. It really is the end game. Left to their own devises, the Left will chew us up and spit us out. We must be doers in this all-important November election.
Go to True the Vote. Scroll to the bottom of the webside. Under the heading Resources, go to Voter Resource Center. When clicking on Voter Resource Center a map of this nation will appear. Click on your state for pertinent voter information.
