Likelihood of Vote Fraud Greatest in Tight Races

States with politicians locked in tight races should be on the lookout for voter fraud in the midterms, warns John Fund, a National Review columnist and co-author of “Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk.”

During an appearance Tuesday on Newsmax TV's “America’s Forum,” Fund noted that voter fraud is “directly related to how competitive a race is and how much people think stealing a vote here and a vote there will change the outcome.”

“We do know that in close races it could make a huge difference. In 2008, Al Franken, the comedian, won a Minnesota Senate race by 312 votes. We now know that 1,200 felons voted illegally in that race and a new academic study shows that probably about 3,000 noncitizens voted, 80 percent of them voting for Al Franken and the Democrats.”

Recent studies have found tens of thousands of noncitizen votes on the rolls in North Carolina, he said.

“The same academic study from Old Dominion University that found that Al Franken had lots of noncitizen support also found that Obama probably won North Carolina in 2008 on the basis of noncitizen voting and again, these kind of consequences, you know Al Franken became in Minnesota the 60th senator for the Democrats,” Fund said.

“They could not have passed Obamacare unless they could've broken a Republican filibuster. They needed 60 votes to do that, Al Franken was the 60th vote. Obamacare passed because of Al Franken. Al Franken became a senator because of noncitizen and felon voting.”

Ballot harvesting — mass collections of mail-in ballots by partisans — is a concern in Arizona, where the practice is rampant.

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