(Chuck Muth) – In a Las Vegas Sun article published today, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar said…
“We do not have widespread voter fraud. … There’s also voter ID within the voter registration process to prove identity of the voter.”
Note the “widespread” qualifier he and other “election fraud deniers” use. He knows there’s fraud – it’s been documented – so he has to say there’s not “a lot” of it.
Which always reminds me of this quote by former U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams…
“If even one vote has been illegally cast or if the integrity of just one election official is compromised, it diminishes faith in the process.”
So how much fraud is acceptable to the Secretary? What if a race is decided by, you know, one vote – as has happened multiple times?
It doesn’t have to be “widespread” to affect a close race – such as Stavros Anthony’s 2020 county commission race which was decided by 15 votes out of over 150,000 cast!
Also, voting fraud is almost impossible to find…especially when the Secretary isn’t even looking for it.
Last April, I found an example of a voter who had moved to Texas and voted in the 2022 general election there. But a mail-in ballot was also cast in his name in Nevada in that same election.
So I filed an official Election Integrity Complaint with the SOS. Two months later I got an email saying they had “closed” the case without explanation.
So much for Aguilar’s commitment to “transparency.”
And his argument against photo ID is perhaps the dumbest possible and defies reality.
The problem isn’t in presenting an ID to register to vote; it’s when someone shows up to vote. Just because someone showed the proper ID to register doesn’t mean someone can’t try to cast an illegal ballot in the voter’s name, especially a mail-in ballot.
Try showing up at the airport and tell the TSA guy that you showed your ID when you bought your ticket so you shouldn’t have to show it at the gate. Good luck with that.
Is our Secretary of State clueless or being intentionally disingenuous? Or maybe a little of both?
In addition, Senate Minority Leader Robin Titus blew the whistle this week on a new program Aguilar has implemented to “spam-text” under-24 voters encouraging them to get out and vote.
“Why is the Secretary of State using taxpayer money to solely turnout this demographic that gives clear partisan strategic advantage to one party?” Sen. Titus asked in an op-ed published by Nevada News & Views.
“Is it really the role of the Secretary of State’s office to use taxpayer money to turnout their party’s most advantageous generational demographic?” Titus continued. “The answer is an unequivocal no.”
And don’t even get me started on the Secretary’s refusal to clean up the voter files. What we discovered a couple days ago is going to embarrass the heck out of him. The Secretary should have worked with us when we asked, not against us.
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