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THE MAJORITY OF VOTER FRAUD ACROSS THE NATION WAS COMMITTED BY REPUBLICANS....VOTING FOR DEAD PEOPLE? 

THE VILLAGES IN FLORIDA OUTDID THEMSELVES.....LOTS OF DEAD RELATIVES & NO PROSECUTIONS....DESANTIS DOESN'T PROSECUTE THE WEALTHY VOTER FRAUDS! 

MARK MEADOWS WAS REGISTERED TO VOTE IN 3 STATES AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS BABBLING HIS MANURE ABOUT VOTER FRAUD....HE WASN'T PROSECUTED! 

THE WARPED & PARTISAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION HAS A SITE THAT LISTS VOTER FRAUD & CAREFULLY EXCLUDES REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD....BUT INCLUDED FLORIDA FELONS WHO WERE WRONGLY LED TO BELIEVE THEY COULD VOTE: 

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‘Totes Legit’ tipster found 282 possible voter fraud cases in Florida; few prosecuted outside The Villages 
FLORIDA VOTER FRAUD

New Hampshire voter fraud: 15 convictions since 2016

November 17, 2023

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Detractors say the law, which survived an early court challenge in November, is overkill and fits in with Trump’s “Big Lie,” which claims massive voter fraud and rigged elections were responsible for his defeat.

“It (the new law) is just another way to scare people and keep them from voting,” said state Rep. Connie Lane, the ranking Democrat on the Election Law Committee. “It’s not an issue of fraud, they don’t want the (college) students voting.”

Officials logged 12 complaints of wrongful voting in late 2022; five were closed and seven remained open as of Sept. 27.

Convictions over the years have involved out-of-state people voting in New Hampshire, people with homes in New Hampshire and another state voting in both states, and people voting in two different New Hampshire locations.

ELECTION LIES:
“These people who say there are convoys of buses coming up on election day; it’s untrue,” he said.

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The Committee for Massachusetts Voter Identification Ballot Question v. GalvinJUSTIA
From 2020: 

Voting rights groups sue Galvin over mail-in voting

Say secretary of state must send out ballot applications this week despite funding delay

by Shira Schoenberg

July 13, 2020

VOTING RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS are asking the Supreme Judicial Court to force Secretary of State William Galvin to send out applications for mail-in ballots this week – even though Galvin says he doesn’t yet have the money.

Common Cause, MassVote, and seven individual voters sued Galvin, filing an emergency petition with the state’s highest court on Monday, arguing that he is violating the new state law regarding mail-in voting.

The law, which Gov. Charlie Baker signed July 6, lets all Massachusetts residents who want to vote by mail in the September primary or November general election do so. It requires Galvin to send applications for mail-in ballots to every registered primary voter by July 15.

But Galvin told the State House News Service on July 7 that while he had hoped to meet that deadline, the Legislature has not yet sent him money to pay for postage.

In an email to CommonWealth, Galvin spokeswoman Debra O’Malley said the mailing will go out – the only question is how soon the office can get the money to pay for postage.

The Massachusetts Senate approved a $5 million appropriation in a supplemental budget, which O’Malley said “will be more than enough” to cover the cost of printing the mailing, sending it to more than 4.5 million voters, and paying for postage on applications that are returned. The House passed a similar version of the bill Monday afternoon, although it still needs additional votes before it makes it to the governor’s desk. O’Malley said in the absence of that bill, Galvin is working with the governor’s office to find funding elsewhere.

O’Malley said the applications have been printed and are ready to go out, but the office needs to pay for the postal permit and finalize the terms of paying the post office before it can send out the mailing.

Galvin, in an interview, said July 15 was an “arbitrary” deadline that was not reasonable, since the Legislature only passed the bill July 2, and Galvin needs to work out the logistics of the mailing and coordinate with the post office. “The mailing is definitely going out…as soon as reasonably possible,” Galvin said.

But the voting rights groups say Galvin must send out the ballots by July 15 regardless of any funding holdup, and they are asking the court to order him to do so.

Their lawsuit notes that the federal CARES Act gave the state $8.3 million earmarked for the Secretary of the State to prepare for the 2020 election, although Galvin’s office has questioned whether that money can be used to send out ballot applications, rather than the ballots themselves.

“Absent relief, the Secretary’s refusal to execute the provisions of the Act will undermine the rule of law and jeopardize the safety of Massachusetts voters in the upcoming elections,” the lawsuit contends.

The individual petitioners are all people at high risk for contracting COVID-19 – many of them elderly, low-income, or non-English speakers with medical conditions – who are relying on getting an application and applying to vote by mail.

Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, executive director of MassVOTE, said in a statement, “A timely mailing is critical for voters who are elderly and/or low-income and do not have access to a computer and printer. Secretary Galvin’s inaction will hurt the most vulnerable communities in our state whose voices are most often ignored.”

Galvin called the lawsuit “self-serving” by groups that are interested in “self-promotion and grandstanding.”

This story was updated with information about Monday’s House vote and with comments by Galvin.

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Massachusetts Republicans are trying to put a voter ID law on the 2022 ballot. Here’s what we know so far.

"We're taking this question straight to the people."

Voters fill out their ballots in November 2020 in Quincy. Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe

By Nik DeCosta-Klipa

July 7, 2021

Seeing no path forward on Beacon Hill, leaders of the Massachusetts Republican Party are moving to put a voter ID law on the 2022 ballot.

MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons sent an email to supporters Sunday announcing a campaign to put a proposed law requiring voters in Massachusetts to present identification at polling places on next year’s ballot.

“What’s clear to me, after serving eight years as a state lawmaker, is that Beacon Hill will never so much as debate the merits of voter ID laws, and that’s why we’re taking this question straight to the people,” Lyons wrote.

In the email, Lyons said the party’s goal is to register at least 2,000 volunteers to collect signatures for the effort.

Supporters must first file their proposed ballot question with Attorney General Maura Healey’s office by Aug. 4. If it meets the state’s constitutional requirements, the next hurdle is collecting at least 80,239 signatures by Nov 17.

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With some exceptions (such as for first-time voters), Massachusetts does not ask voters to present any form of physical identification in order to cast a ballot. The new MassGOP ballot campaign also comes as the state’s Democrat-controlled legislature considers reforms to make last year’s pandemic-induced changes to expand voting options — such as mail-in voting and additional early voting — permanent.

Those changes contributed to record-breaking turnout in last year’s election and received support from Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.

However, MassGOP leaders, who backed former President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of voter fraud, contend that voter ID laws are also popular. Lyons linked to a recent Monmouth University poll that found 80 percent of voters nationally support laws requiring voters to show a photo ID in order to cast a ballot.

Voting rights advocates generally argue that such laws risk discouraging eligible voters from casting a ballot and disproportionately affect people of color and low-income citizens.

According to the ACLU, more than 21 million Americans do not have any government-issued photo identification, and obtaining such identification can be burdensome and costly for lower-income residents.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states — including Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island — ask voters to provide some form of identification, ranging from a driver’s license to a bank statement. Half of those states accept forms of identification that do not include a photo. Twenty five of the 36 states have “non-strict” voter ID laws that allow individuals without accepted identification to still vote if they sign a form under oath.

MassGOP vice chair Tom Mountain told Boston.com that their ballot question would require voters to have a government-issued photo identification, though he said exceptions would be made for certain non-photo IDs, “such as college or employment IDs with the date of birth indicated.”

With less than a month to go to file their initiative, the party is still working out some of the other details.

According to Mountain, they’re learning toward proposing a “non-strict” version of a voter ID law, in which those without accepted identification would still be able to vote if they sign an affidavit attesting to their identity (similar to Connecticut’s voter ID rules).

Mountain said the state or municipal governments should also be able to issue free photo IDs to those without one (currently, in Massachusetts, the typical driver’s license costs $50 to get or renew, while non-driver’s ID cards cost $25).

“We must emphasize that voter integrity should be a non-political issue, yet the Massachusetts Republican Party has been forced to resort to a ballot initiative to ensure voter integrity in the Commonwealth because our Democrat run State Legislature has failed to do so, and Secretary of State Galvin has refused to heed our very public requests for voter-ID requirements,” Moutain said in an email.

Secretary of State Bill Galvin’s office noted that he generally opposes photo voter ID requirements “because many voters, such as senior citizens who give up their drivers licenses, do not typically carry photo identification.”

“Secretary Galvin does not want those eligible voters to be unable to exercise their right to vote,” Deb O’Malley, a spokeswoman for Galvin, said Wednesday.

At the federal level, some Democratic leaders have signaled a willingness to accept some voter ID requirements in exchange for other election reforms, such as expanded early voting, automatic voter registration, and a prohibition on gerrymandering. And according to the Monmouth poll, 62 percent of Democrats, as well as 91 percent of Republican, said they support requiring photo IDs to vote.

However, it’s unclear if such rules do what supporters — or detractors — say they will.

Multiple studies have found that even strict voter ID laws do not have much effect on voter fraud — which is already exceedingly rare — or voter turnout. One review of new voter ID laws from 2008 to 2018 released this past May said that whatever “modest effects” the laws had on the participation of minorities may have been offset by efforts of voting rights groups that mobilized in response.

“Our findings suggest that efforts to improve elections may be better directed at other reforms,” the authors of wrote.

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