Many common-sense Americans wonder why we don’t use voter ID. The answer is nuanced.
Under existing law, states have a dual responsibility to protect eligible voters against denial of the vote, equally as against dilution of the vote through fraud. Blocking ongoing legislation and litigation efforts to secure voter ID for over a decade has been the argument that it will cause massive disenfranchisement of minority voters, who will be unable to prove their citizenship with appropriate documents.
The arguments on both sides have been purely theoretical, but the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lawfare has been very real. Groundbreaking new studies measuring each side of the dilemma have finally brought facts to bear, showing that denial of the vote is the paper tiger, while dilution of the vote through votes counted from fictitious, unverified voters may be a bigger problem than anyone realized.
United Sovereign Americans extensively studied whether votes were counted from unverified identities during the 2022 midterm elections of California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Using official state records and extensive voter identity verification, USA analysts asked three questions:
- Does the voter exist?
- Did the voter live at the address they voted from in 2022?
- Were votes counted without any voter at all?
USA measured 2,189,483 voters who voted in the seven subject states who do not exist, and 4,840,975 voters who voted from addresses they did not live at. Additionally, the seven states counted a total of 1,449,054 more votes than voters who voted. These indefensible betrayals of the law add up to 21.6% of the total certified vote in just those seven states.
Verification of voter identity and citizenship is a defined constitutional duty of the states, whether the applicant produces ID or not. Were 154 members of U.S. Congress legally chosen? How did election officials certify outcomes with 8,479,512 unverified votes counted? Lastly, how were a further 3,038,081 certified votes later edited, deleted, or “washed” to other registration records?
This data suggests actual malice through above state-level election misconduct. Guarding the link between voters, votes and tallies is a statutory requirement, arising from criminal law, that is not being enforced.
Meanwhile the Brennan Center invented their own standard of disenfranchisement: not having proof of citizenship “readily available.” However, their statistical survey of 2,386 citizens failed to report a single actual voting injury. “[T]he documents might be in the home of another family member or in a safety deposit box. And at least 3.8 million don’t have these documents at all, often because they were lost, destroyed, or stolen.”
Brennan Center analysts did discover that a slightly higher percentage of minority voters (11%) to white voters (8%) did not have “readily available” citizenship papers, apparently because minorities are more likely to protect their documents by placing them in highly secure locations like banks.
United Sovereign Americans has directly measured millions of what appear to be “invalid votes procured by fraud” in the official records of certified federal elections. In 2022, these votes diluted the lawful votes of American citizens, jeopardizing the framework for liberty in the U.S. Constitution. Mere precinct-level mischief has put compromised election officials into federal prison for certifying false tallies since 1868, when Congress defined these crimes.
That was also the era when Congress decided that states found to have abridged eligible votes in any way must lose apportionment, codified in the second section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Implementing universal voter ID is a common-sense solution that would help everyone. Election officers could accomplish their task more easily and avoid costly litigation.
The votes of eligible American citizens would be better protected. If states refuse to comply with a federal mandate, their representatives need not be recognized, as occurred during the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and the 1868 Electoral College.
After all, it’s only a Republic if we keep it.
Marly Hornik is the founder and CEO of United Sovereign Americans and New York Citizens Audit. She has coordinated more than 10,000 volunteers to audit elections in 21 states, advocate for legally valid elections to over 700 local representative bodies across America, and file federal lawsuits in nine states demanding that the voters, votes, and counts be lawful and accurate.
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