Democrats lost the ability decades ago to win elections based on ideas and policies. Since that time, they have relied on importing tens of millions of non-English speaking illiterates, terrifying the black inner cities to turn out the vote, and thuggery by unions at all levels. But this is not sufficient, as they lose elections from time to time. So they turn to their old reliable – stealing elections via voting fraud.
J Christian Adams writing in PJ Media a few weeks ago described 10 ways the left (democrats) are hacking the election system. These include but are not limited to the following:
- Block citizenship verification
- Early voting
- Out of precinct voting
- Felon re-enfranchisement
- Mandatory voter registration
- Dirty voter rolls
- Foreign language ballots
- Same day registration
- State qualification instructions on registration forms
- National popular vote
It is a sobering article.
How many of these have we seen here in Alaska over the last decade? I can name at least three: Early voting – via the Anchorage Assembly moving to an all-mail voting system. We also open the polls here in Anchorage for early voting. Foreign language ballots – done courtesy court order for Yupik and other Native language ballots. This is backed up by former Lt Gov Mead Treadwell’s decision to flood the Bush with over 200 elections officers.
Final example is mandatory voter registration. Next month we here in Alaska have the opportunity to vote for or against a ballot initiative called PFD Automatic Voter Registration. This little nugget aims to automatically register new voters based on their PFD application. Essentially, the democrats plan to use state funds to register people to vote who are unable to do so now. So now state funds are going to be spent to make life easier to register new democrat voters.
Today roughly 57% of the state population over 736,000 are called active registered voters. The ballot initiative is predictably hiding behind active duty military in their campaign ads as an excuse to support the initiative. Generally the best way to support the troops would be to get absentee ballots to them in a timely manner, something beyond the competence or interest of most blue state elections officials.
The entire process will be managed by the Division of Elections (DOE), including protection of databases of personal data. Given the absolute mess DOE turned voting in District 40 into last month, does anyone believe they even have the basic competence to handle something like this? I don’t either. But at least Byron Malott has his Yupik language ballots. Whoop.
PFD Automatic Voter Registration is a bad idea. It is backed by the usual suspects on the left. These are proudly listed in their Coalition page on their web site. They include Vince Beltrami’s AFL/CIO, Alaska Conservation Voters, AARP of Alaska, ACLU of Alaska, Alaska Federation of Natives, a variety of regional Native Corporations, NEA Alaska, Great Alaska Schools and the NAA(L)CP. This is hardly a list of people and organizations interested in anything other than growing the size of state government and its budget at the expense of every single working Alaskan. And they wouldn’t be supporting it unless it was going to politically benefit them in future years.
PFD Automatic Voter Registration? Vote no. Put it out of its and our misery.
Alex Gimarc lives in Anchorage since retiring from the military in 1997. His interests include science and technology, environment, energy, economics, military affairs, fishing and disabilities policies. His weekly column “Interesting Items” is a summary of news stories with substantive Alaska-themed topics. He is a small business owner and Information Technology professional.
