Pols And Politics: We Can’t Stop Illegals From Registering To Vote

September 29, 2016
by Joe Shaheeli


It may not mean much in a city such as ours where Democrats out register Republicans seven to one. But it could have serious consequences in one or more of our 26 state legislative districts, illegal aliens voting could spell the difference.

A check with local registration officials indicates there is almost no way to keep them from registering.

Registrations are heavy, reports Gregory Irving, voter registration administrator. Much of them, he reports, come from workers hired by FieldWorks, a voter-registration and get-out-the-vote group with a mostly Democratic clientele ranging from the White House and the Hillary Clinton For President campaign to major unions and various congressional candidates nationwide.

Add to the thousands they have brought in, the fact many already-registered voters are registering over again to make sure they are eligible to vote. Irving and his dedicated crew have been working at full capacity to make sure every voter is in a binder at their proper poll on election day.FieldWorks claims it brings decades of experience running campaigns to every client. Its operatives “identify who needs to be persuaded, and communicate with them directly in the most effective way possible.”It has worked for the Virginia House and Senate Democratic Caucuses, which may account for the fact the concern is strong in that state that ineligible voters may have meant the difference in the 2012 presidential race, where less than 3 percentage points decided its 13 electoral votes. In both 2005 and 2013, fewer than 1,000 votes decided the general election contests for Virginia’s Attorney General.With this in mind, watchdog groups have pushed local election officials in seven Virginia jurisdictions to reveal hundreds of noncitizens who are registered to vote. So far, they have found more than 550.Every ineligible voter on the rolls could end up being an eligible vote that cancels out the vote of other, eligible voters,” says a spokesman for the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation. They found illegally registered voters in just 20 counties and cities out of 95 counties and 38 independent cities.Potentially more could be found on the voter rolls, as PILF pursues a total of 20 counties and cities in the Old Dominion—a sampling of its 95 counties and 38 independent cities.PILF represents the Virginia Voters Alliance in a lawsuit filed earlier this year against the city of Alexandria. The city prompted its suspicion after the alliance determined more people were registered to vote in the city than eligible voters who lived there, said Noel Johnson, litigation counsel for the legal foundation.Gathering new registrations here are more groups than just FieldWorks. All claim to have volunteers, but many are paid.Caught up in this huge vacuum sweeper set up to register almost everyone, illegals may be sucked in.Add to that source of questionable registrations the very active PennDOT driver registrations. When aliens mark in they are citizens on the application form, they are automatically registered according to party designated. There is no check on the validity of their claim. Those are sent by the thousands to county registration offices such as Irving’s. They must be catalogued and placed in the appropriate binder. Such aliens can vote – a legal vote cast illegally.The only way to catch them now is from jury-pool notices. When they are filled out and returned, that is when most illegals will indicate they are not citizens so as not to be called to jury duty. Those lists are checked against registration rolls and then can be pulled off.This ability of illegals easily to register to vote, many not knowing they should not, won’t mean much in Philly where the presidential returns will heavily favor Hillary Clinton. But in special elections, such as one expected in March of next year to fill the vacancy in the 197th Dist., a bunch of paid illegals could swing that election should there be competition.It’s a situation that could grow to haunt the legitimacy of many election decisions not only here but everywhere else in the United States.Maybe it’s time to go back to the timer when committee people from either party would canvass the division and scratch off those they found no longer at residences to which they were registered, and now, illegals obviously not citizens, and those dead and buried. Their ward leaders would gather those street lists and turn them into the Registration Commission, which would send out its canvassers to double check and then clean off those ineligibles. But, then, Fed laws changed the rules and they stay padded through presidential cycles before names can be eliminated from voter rolls.

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