Will We Have an Election This Year?

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President Trump gives a great stump speech. But when he’s trying to educate America about critical issues like election integrity, he sucks. Sorry, but it’s the truth. That’s why I’m calling this session of the “Make Elections Safe Again” (MESA) seminar to order. Take your seats and pull out your writing tools. While you’re at it, let’s have a Simultaneous Sip in memory of Scott Adams.

The President laid down a lot of factual materials. But they were scattered like Jenga blocks. Let’s put them into a meaningful order. Our first stop must be China.

The FBI, CIA, and DHS are releasing a pot full of data that the ChiComs have gotten hip-deep into our election apparatus. They have complete records of 220 million American “voters.” We’ll explain those scare quotes momentarily. But given that we have around 340 million people in the US, that’s close to two-thirds of everyone here. And that raises our first Red flag.

The voting age population of the US is about 261 million. The typical registration rate for voting-age adults is 70-85%. 85% of 261 million is 221 million. Interesting.

If we use the highest registration rate, then every likely registrant is in China’s database. Every. Last. One. But something stinks with that arithmetic. You see, the “voter eligible” population (VEP)—yes, that number is different from “voting age”—is only 239 million.

Take that stirring spoon out of your eye for a moment. And wipe the coffee off your shirt. The 22 million difference includes legally present aliens—visa holders, green card residents, and so on. We don’t actually know how many illegals are in it, or if that number is even bigger. But it’s a lot, and when we look at the VEP, apply that huge 85% registration number to it, and hit ENTER, there may be as many as 203 million actually eligible registered voters.

Before you spill your coffee a second time, put it down and consider this. That arithmetic means that China has at least 17 million fraudulent voter registrations in its hacked data. The number of fraudulent voter registrations known by China is larger than the population of forty-six states. Only New York, Florida, Texas, and California are larger. That’s not a problem. That’s a disaster. And America is being swept away by the flash flood.

It’s time to get real. That 17 million number is a best-case calculation. If we use the 70% registration rate, it could be as high as 61 million. That’s more than the voter-eligible population of California, Texas, and New York...combined.

You read that right. This isn’t a disaster; it’s a nuclear catastrophe because if China is able to hack our systems to get all that data, it’s able to hack in to write new data. Could that many vote switches swing a key election? I wonder...

Eighteen states have refused to grant voter roll access to the Feds, and in the most comprehensive analysis of state-by-state data, they have a total of 120 million voter-eligible adults, with 100 million registered, for an 83% registration rate. Reading the data differently can lead to the conclusion that these Democrat-run states have more voters than adults. Something is very rotten in Denmark.

Let’s move to Trump’s statement that we know of at least a quarter million non-citizens who are registered to vote in federal elections. It turns out that this is just four states!

DHS Document (highlight added).

We must wonder what the number would be if all states shared their data with the feds. Add in the 400,000 dead people known to be on the rolls, and anyone with an IQ above room temperature must wonder if it’s possible to have an election anywhere. Which raises a key question: What is an election?

Democrats scream about “losing our democracy!” I won’t debate the issue of democracy versus. republic. But we do have democratic elections at many levels. Unfortunately, very few of them are actually elections. Six years ago (have I been writing for AT that long?!?!), I wrote that:

An election is a process of counting votes for candidates. Only valid, lawful votes may be counted. A valid lawful vote is:

Cast by an eligible, properly registered elector as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.

Cast in a timely manner, as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.

Cast in a proper form as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.

Any process that does not follow these rules is not an election. Anything that proceeds from it cannot be regarded as having any lawful import.

Let’s start at the beginning. To be eligible, you must be consuming oxygen, at least 18 years of age, a US citizen, and a resident of your voting district for a period that the state defined. That means that something north of two million registered names are already known or reasonably estimated to be ineligible. That’s enough to invalidate pretty much any election, since every fraudulent vote cancels out an eligible voter.

Next, your “vote” indicates your preference on a given issue. It can be who should assume a particular office or whether a given voter initiative should pass or not. That “vote” must be indicated in a manner that the state legislature requires. And that preference must be presented to voting officials in the time window the legislature set. (No, California’s insane “count forever” system is not the subject of this essay.) Again, if a ballot arrives from an improper person or in an improper manner, it also cancels out the vote of a real voter. As I said six years ago:

Most commentators suggest that a process of collecting pieces of paper with marks on them is an election regardless of errors, omissions, and even deliberate malfeasance. This is a mistake. Imagine a golf tournament where every bad shot by one player gets a do-over, but the competing player has to follow USGA rules in detail. One player gets to drop freely out of hazards, but the other has to tackle every embedded ball as it lies. The result is a travesty.

“The same thing applies to elections. If there are a handful of improper votes, we can suggest that there was in fact an election, perhaps tainted, but the election wasn’t materially harmed. But when the people charged with managing the election decide to ignore the law, whatever process they supervise is not the process defined by the law. Therefore, it is not an election.

This leaves us with two problems. First, how do we protect actual elections? This involves multiple issues.

Trump’s initiative to prevent mailing ballots to non-voters is a good start and should succeed in the appellate courts. Next, states need to clean up their voter rolls. Finally, mail-in voting should be restricted to those who are unable to vote in person.

Election electronics must be rigorously tested and air-gapped. And finally, those who do appear need to present photo ID. Single mothers on SNAP have to show ID to get their benefits, so nobody will lose their right to vote.

Democrats like Senator Slotkin weep that this may well prevent Democrats from ever winning an election, and if that’s actually true, it just says that Democrats can’t win without breaking the law. I guess keeping criminals out of office isn’t such a bad thing, is it?

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Ted Noel is a retired physician who posts on social media as Doctor Ted, @Vidzette on X, and occasionally does Doctor Ted’s Prescription podcast on multiple podcast channels.