Recently, Virginia’s governor Glenn Youngkin signed Executive Order 35 (“EO 35”) “to protect the casting of legal ballots by legally eligible voters in Virginia’s elections, including stringent ballot security, complete and thorough counting machine testing, and best-in-the-nation voter list maintenance.” Nationally, the mainstream media portrayed EO 35 as a bold step to improve Virginia’s election integrity before the 2024 General elections.
On the contrary, citizens investigating Virginia’s broken electronic voting systems know otherwise. We have discovered uncertified, unsecured electronic voting equipment and massively inflated voter rolls. Both issues also lead to the likelihood of absentee mail-in ballot fraud, not ballot security. Volunteers had to work outside the Republican political establishment to expose the current problems, notwithstanding the claims of EO 35. Virginia citizens have found the governor and the attorney general’s office to be uninterested in looking into claims of election integrity issues statewide. To the citizens engaged in thousands of hours of election integrity work, the EO 35 is more like lip service.
Some Downstream Consequences from the Lack of Election Integrity in Virginia:
Voter Registration Lists
Virginia’s Registered Voter List (RVL) is grossly inflated — the consequence is likely inaccurate and unsecure results in 2024 unless corrective action is taken immediately. The Voter History List (VHL) must have extra votes, too, because some of the inflated ‘extra’ voters have voted in the last four elections. In a recent pre-litigation letter filed against ELECT and Commissioner Susan Beals, the Virginia-based law firm of Holtzman Vogel cited that 101 of 133 counties/cities have registrations that exceed 90% of their respective eligible populations. Of those, 43 counties/cities have impossibly high ratios of registered voters — at greater than 100%. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey reports that registration rates historically have been in the mid-70% range. Based on this and other corroborating data, we estimate that more than 1,000,000 extra registrations exist on the rolls, as the data suggests. Questionably Invalid Voter Registration IDs.
Research has identified over 550,000 questionably invalid voter registration IDs based solely on incomplete or incorrect address data. This massive number came to light upon the RVL and Voter History Lists (VHL) analysis, including verifying address information through the USPS National Change of Address (NCOA) database. Contrary to claims by EO 35 and ELECT, the voters experience merely the pretense of cleaning the registration lists.
Further, citizens found through FOIA that ELECT has yet to implement a process for proactively removing non-citizens. The governor’s claim of removing 6,303 non-citizens from the rolls fails to mention the lengthy timeline afforded the removals and that these non-citizens had self-identified.
An Attempt to Push Registration Challenges Until After the November Elections
provably false statements:
Tony Webster
