How Elections are Stolen

By Joseph Fried

      "The masterful Joe Fried's eagerly anticipated new  book -- How Elections Are Stolen - There are 23 ways -- validates all of the data that he has provided on the Two Mikes' podcasts and adds much more. In 27 short chapters -- each 4-to-7 pages -- the author presents 27 electoral problems  and recommendations for fixing them. We found the book extremely accessible and that it enabled the reader to easily jump from the table of contents to any section of the book. Mr. Fried's brilliant book is a source of definitive answers for the citizenry on how the 2020 presidential election was stolen. For the White House, the Democratic Party, DOJ, and FBI it will be a nightmare that arrives in the midst of the manifold other forms of corruption they have been shown to be practicing." 
--Colonel Mike and Dr. Mike of the toomikes podcast

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Identifying election problems is easy. In his last book — called Debunked? — Joe Fried CPA identified many serious problems — multiple times. He says the difficult part is finding solutions — ones that have a chance of succeeding. Even simple solutions can be elusive when the wrong people are in charge of our elections. Unfortunately, some state leaders want anything but election integrity.

 

This book (about 180 pages in print) describes 23 serious problems that undermine the integrity of our elections. Possible solutions are presented, some of which can be implemented fairly easily. 

In case you are not convinced of the need for improvements, the book also includes a summary of the many serious election irregularities of the 2020 election. Those problems, which should have been resolved before certifications were made, are itemized in Appendix A.

 

Perhaps you would like to personally help the cause of election integrity. If so, consider assisting some of the organizations and individuals listed in Appendix E. You could help in many ways, some of which are very effective and rewarding.

Finally, please feel free to leave a comment regarding this book. Joe welcomes all feedback, and would like to hear your ideas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: joseph fried
• Release date: Sep 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223375227

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HOW? HERE ARE 23 WAYS

Preface

Like ostriches, many Democrats and Republicans have their heads in the sand. Perhaps they have not been paying attention, or they cringe at the prospect of being called election deniers. Either way, they must pull their heads up and educate themselves to the very real problems in recent elections. Otherwise, we are doomed to experience those problems again — and again.

Recently, I published Debunked? — a book that reviews the many serious problems that affected 6 key swing states in the 2020 election. In the book I assert that those swing state elections didn’t truly qualify for certification, based on what we knew at the time and what we learned later. I stand by every word. We must not let it happen again.

In the following pages you will find an outline of the many problems inherent in modern American election processes. After each problem you will also find recommendations. Some are fairly obvious, but others are new and awaiting implementation.

In a few cases, the recommendations are only aspirational because they will be blocked by state and/or county administrators. Other proposals can be accomplished despite government resistance, provided they are implemented with timely determination. Many involve legislative actions, several involve administrative actions, and others require party and citizen initiatives. However, they are all worth consideration.

Before getting to those problems and recommendations, let’s start by describing one state that exemplifies just about all of the troubles of our modern elections. It is the State of Nevada, and it demonstrates the magnitude of our election problems and the importance of finding solutions.

Nevada — The everything wrong state

Nevada used to be a red state but I suspect it will eventually become deep blue because it has virtually no controls over its election processes. This sounds harsh, but the state is a likely fraud enabler after passing election reforms in mid-2021. Those reforms were a codification of the emergency Covid-19 legislation that had been implemented in Nevada just prior to the 2020 election.

Before the legislative changes, Nevada had no hard ID requirement for voting — just very weak signature checking. That was a serious problem, but it was one that is shared by several states. The new Nevada election laws in 2020 and 2021 exacerbated that weakness in additional ways:

They established direct, automatic ballot mailing to everyone based on out-of-date registration lists.

They legalized an army of anonymous, unregistered ballot harvesters, who could be paid to collect unlimited numbers of ballots.

They allowed for the use of unmonitored ballot drop boxes.

Nevada election law has now enshrined all of the most serious causes of election fraud. A legislative mistake? Perhaps. Or, maybe it was created as part of a deliberate plan to ensure that Nevada administrators and politicians never lose power.

For good measure, Nevada weakened its election controls in one more way that seems to be unique: It now authorizes people (almost anyone) to assist fellow voters over the age of 64 in completing their ballots. Apparently, people in Nevada get confused when they reach the ripe old age of 65.

Let’s see how well those Nevada changes are working so far.

Jay Greenberg, a journalist with NeonNettle.com News, reported that, in early 2020, thousands of ballots were being mailed to inactive voters in Clark County. He reported:

The vote-by-mail envelopes are piling up in post office trays, outside apartment complexes, and on community bulletin boards in and around Las Vegas.[1]

Jenny Trobiani, a Clark County postal worker, wondered:

What’s going to happen with these things, they’re not secured at all and there are thousands of them just sitting here? This just seems fraudulent to me, something stinks here.[2]

The problems observed by Greenberg and Trobiani materialized because ballots were mailed automatically to people who were listed on bloated, out-of-date registration lists. The Post Office didn’t know where to deliver the ballots because many voters had moved away in the months or years since registering. And, even those who hadn’t moved did not necessarily plan to vote by mail, or to vote at all. They may have perceived the ballots to be junk mail. That is why the unused ballots were left on shelves, floors, pavement, and in trash cans.

How hard was it to cheat in the 2020 Nevada election? An anonymous harvester had only to enter the mailbox area of an apartment building, scoop up the excess ballots, sign them, and mail them in.

You might ask, what about the signature requirement? Well, that didn’t work either. Nevada has a totally ineffective signature procedure (described in Debunked) that is almost guaranteed to not work. That would explain why, in an informal signature test, 8 of 9 Nevada ballots were accepted with phony signatures.

Another question might be this: Why would anyone bother to fill out ballots belonging to others? The answer is simple. As noted, in Nevada people get paid to collect and harvest ballots. And the people earning this extra money can do it without limits and in complete anonymity. Of course, not everyone is motivated by money. Political activists probably do it for free, in an effort to achieve their political goals.

Alas, election integrity may be a lost cause in Nevada. However, it might be salvaged if quick action is taken before the next election. It is my hope that some of the ideas in this book will be of help.

My preference was to write this book in a completely nonpartisan manner. In reality, however, Democrats and Republicans generally fit into opposing camps when it comes to voting rules and rights. Democrats say they want to make voting as easy and nonrestrictive as possible, so that the vote of marginalized citizens is not suppressed. Rank and file Democrats largely support requiring voter identification (ID), but their leaders mostly oppose those requirements, or the streamlining of registration lists.

On the other hand, Republicans claim they want to strengthen election integrity, with ease of voting taking second place. Generally, Republicans want voters to identify themselves with some form of hard ID, such as a drivers license number. Republicans are also more likely to favor the purging of inactive voters from registration lists.

My views align with the Republican position. I don’t want to impede anyone from voting, or make voting unnecessarily inconvenient. To me, however, election integrity is of the most vital importance. For that reason it is imperative that our elections are free from mistakes, confusion, or fraud.

Finally, no one has good and unique solutions to all of these problems. Some of my answers may be impractical, and others are probably obvious. But for the sake of completeness, I put it all in this book.

There may be other ideas that are more beneficial than the ones I have presented. If this book merely serves as a starting point for analysis and debate, the effort will be worthwhile. There is nothing more vital to our American democracy than fair, honest, and fully transparent elections.

Twenty-three problems to fix — Now!

Each of the problems listed in this book is one of policy design or policy implementation. In every case there is at least one closely-related election integrity deficiency. Recommendations are also presented, along with a description of the impact and reaction that can be expected from the implementation of the recommendations

PROBLEM 1: Registration lists with misinformation

In October of 2020 , the nonprofit organization known as Judicial Watch (JW) released a comprehensive report on voter registration rates in various counties and states. JW found that 353 counties in 29 states had registration rates greater than 100 percent of the voting-age population. In these counties there were at least 1.8 million excess, or ghost voters. [3]

Why does it matter? With so many states opting to mail election documents to everyone listed on their voter registration lists (whether or not a request is made), the excess of registrations will lead to surplus ballots and/or applications everywhere, ready to be misused.

According to Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, these sloppy registration records severely weaken the integrity of our elections:

The data highlights the recklessness of mailing blindly ballots and ballot applications to voter registration lists. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections.[4]

Of course, the problem is not limited to the states and counties with registration rates over 100 percent of the voting age population. A state or county with an 80 or 90 percent registration rate may also have a problem because voter turnout is usually much lower than that.

In most states, voter participation records are public information, although sometimes for a fee. Fraudsters can scrutinize those records to determine which people rarely vote. They can then apply for ballots in the names of those occasional voters.

To get an idea of the true magnitude of this problem, consider the work of the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). For several years, PILF has been tracking the status of ballots sent to voters through the mail. By reviewing state election statistics, the organization determined that, in the 2020 election, 1.1 million ballots were undeliverable and 560,000 were rejected. A much bigger problem was the "unknown ballot." There were nearly 15 million of those. What does unknown mean. Here is the answer from J. Christian Adams, who is President of PILF:

This means there is a wide variety of things that can happen to a ballot in the unknown column. A ballot can be put in the wrong mailbox and land in an unfriendly neighbor’s trash. It can be thrown out with your unpaid bills. It can be left outside for the wind to carry the last mile (like seen in Nevada in 2020). Election officials simply do not know what happened. Unknown ballots are the greatest blind spot in the American electoral system.[5]

Besides the possibilities listed by Adams, here is one more: Some of the unknown ballots become known ballots — but submitted by people who retrieve and vote those ballots surreptitiously.

After the 2020 election, Donald Trump’s lawyers and advisors pointed out that many registered voters in the swing states could not be validated as legal voters by reference to other databases, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) database. The evidence they presented was usually disputed by election departments, which claimed (without identifying sources) to have access to superior records.

A scientist by the name, Douglas G. Frank, theorizes that some of the people who can’t be tied to other databases may be phantoms, so to speak: dead people, made-up people, or people who have moved away. He theorizes that county registration rates are sometimes pumped up just before the election in order to create a credit line of extra voters. The ballot applications mailed to the phantoms are then acquired and misused by political operatives. To avoid detection, these phantoms may be removed shortly after the election.

In short, the first step in the march towards election integrity is to ensure that voter registration records are current and accurate.

RECOMMENDATION: USE new techniques to remove registered phantoms

Clean up registration lists well in advance of the election. Use FOIA requests and threats of lawsuits, when necessary, to obtain voter rolls and related information. Scrutinize those records for duplications and anomalies in spellings, addresses, birthdates, and registration dates. Make sure county records can be reconciled to state records. If possible, registration lists should be updated every day to remove people who have not voted in recent elections, and to remove those who have recently moved away.

Great efforts are being made to clean up swing state voter registration records, and much of it will be in time for the next election. Here are just a few of the groups working on this problem.

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