States with politicians locked in tight races should be on the lookout for voter fraud in the midterms, warns John Fund, a National Review columnist and co-author of "
Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk."
During an appearance Tuesday on
Newsmax TV's "America’s Forum," Fund noted that
voter fraud is "directly related to how competitive a race is and how much people think stealing a vote here and a vote there will change the outcome."
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"We do know that in close races it could make a huge difference. In 2008, Al Franken, the comedian, won a Minnesota Senate race by 312 votes. We now know that 1,200 felons voted illegally in that race and a new academic study shows that probably about 3,000 noncitizens voted, 80 percent of them voting for Al Franken and the Democrats."
Recent studies have found tens of thousands of noncitizen votes on the rolls in North Carolina, he said.
"The same academic study from Old Dominion University that found that Al Franken had lots of noncitizen support also found that Obama probably won North Carolina in 2008 on the basis of noncitizen voting and again, these kind of consequences, you know Al Franken became in Minnesota the 60th senator for the Democrats," Fund said.
"They could not have passed Obamacare unless they could've broken a Republican filibuster. They needed 60 votes to do that, Al Franken was the 60th vote. Obamacare passed because of Al Franken. Al Franken became a senator because of noncitizen and felon voting."
Ballot harvesting — mass collections of mail-in ballots by partisans — is a concern in Arizona, where the practice is rampant.
"It's a sad day when elected officials decide to turn over control of the ballot process to political operatives who aren't supervised," said Fund. "It's sort of like chickens delivering themselves to Colonel Sanders. You normally think it's not in their self-interest, but they do it anyway because of the enormous political correctness pressure."
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Fund noted that the problem with ballot harvesting is having "private players doing things that we might not want them to do" outside the purview of an election official.
"It's legal what's happening in Arizona, but should it be legal?
"Should it be legal for a partisan political operative who is being paid by the ballot to go out and collect ballots from people around his area and then 'return them' to an accounting center?" Fund asked. "A lot can happen."
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Colorado’s allowance of same-day voter registration and mandatory mail-in ballots could also make conditions ripe for voter fraud, according to Fund.
"The voters of Colorado rejected those proposed changes in a referendum 10 years ago with over 60 percent of the vote, but last year the Democratic legislature ignored that and passed these laws, which operates in what I call a vicious circle," he said.
"You can register to vote online without providing any verifiable ID, then you can request an absentee ballot, you can have that sent to you," he said. "You can mail it in and at no point has anyone actually seen you.
"It opens it up to noncitizens, to people who moved out of state, to people who are dead and people impersonating them, and people who don't even exist."
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