For years, the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter
fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it. And
when secretaries of state like me identify cases of fraud, we are told that the
number of incidents of voter fraud is too insignificant to matter.
Now, however, facts have
come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed
through voter fraud on November 8, 2016: New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat, and
perhaps also New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes in the presidential
election.
New Hampshire is one
of fifteen states
that allow same-day voter registration. The benefit of same-day registration is
that it allows a person who has procrastinated or has forgotten to register to
nonetheless cast a ballot on election day. The downside of same-day
registration is that it does not allow the state time to assess the eligibility
of the voter. A volunteer poll worker simply accepts a modicum of
identification and takes the voter at his word that he’s a U.S. citizen
resident of the state who is eligible to vote.
New
Hampshire is also a battleground state. Unlike neighboring Massachusetts and
Vermont, which reliably vote for the Democrat in presidential elections, New
Hampshire can swing either way. It has long been reported, anecdotally, that
out-of-staters take advantage of New Hampshire’s same-day registration and head
to the Granite State to cast fraudulent votes.
Now there’s
proof.
According to statistics released
by the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, on the date of
the general election in November 2016, there were 6,540 same-day registrants
who registered to vote in New Hampshire using an out-of-statedriver’s license to prove
their identity. In and of itself, that doesn’t prove that any fraud occurred –
theoretically, each of those individuals could have been someone who recently
moved to the State and had not yet had time to get a New Hampshire driver’s
license. According to New Hampshire law, a new resident has 60 days to obtain a
New Hampshire driver’s license.
So if those 6,540 voters
were bona
fide New
Hampshire residents, they would get their driver’s license no later than
January 7, 2017. However, the numbers tell a very different story. It turns out
that, as of August 30, 2017 – nearly ten months after the election – only 1,014 of the
6,540 same-day registrants who registered with an out-of-state license had
obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. The other 5,526 individuals never
obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. And, of those 5,526, only 213
registered a vehicle in New Hampshire.
So 5,313 of those voters
neither obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license nor registered a vehicle in
New Hampshire. They have not followed the legal requirements for residents
regarding driver’s licenses, and it appears that they are not actually residing
in New Hampshire. It seems that they never were bona fide residents of the
State.
5,513 is a big number –
more than enough to swing two very important elections. The closest major
election was the contest between incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte
and challenger Maggie Hassan (D). Hassan won the election by a razor-thin marginof 1,017
votes. Those 5,313 fraudulent votes were more than enough to swing the
election. If 59.2 percent or more of them went for Hassan, then the election
was stolen through voter fraud. That’s likely, since the surrounding states are
Democrat strongholds.
It’s also
possible that New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes were swung to
Hillary Clinton through illegal voting by nonresidents. Clinton won New
Hampshire by only 2,732 votes. If 74.8 percent of the 5,513 fraudulent votes
were cast for Clinton, then the presidential election in New Hampshire was
tipped as well.
If the
presidential contest had been closer and had come down to a margin of three or
four electoral college votes, then this voter fraud might have had
extraordinary consequences. Regardless, in the Senate contest, it is highly
likely that voting by nonresidents changed the result.
And that is
already having consequences for the nation. If the 52-48 Republican-Democrat
balance in the Senate were 53-47, it could change the balance in any number of
votes – not the least of which would be the effort to repeal Obamacare.
But the
mainstream media will tell us, “Move along, there’s nothing to see here.”
Kris W. Kobach is the elected
Secretary of State of Kansas. An expert in immigration law and policy, he
coauthored the Arizona SB-1070 immigration law and represented in federal court
the 10 ICE agents who sued to stop Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty. In
2017 President Trump named him Vice Chairman of the Presidential Commission on
Election Integrity. He is currently a candidate for governor of
Kansas. His website is kriskobach.com.
