Oregon DMV mistakenly registered more than 300 non-citizens to vote since 2021

 AP: Oregon DMV mistakenly registered more than 300 non-citizens to vote since 2021

by Rod Williams, Sept. 15, 2024- This news is not helpful in dispelling the myth of the stolen election or countering the claim that Democrats are registering illegal immigrants and that they are voting in our election. Nevertheless, I am pleased that this news is not swept under the rug. 

Many Democrats are treating concern about election integrity as a cynical ploy to advance the stolen election claim. Much of the press and many Democrats are treating training of poll watchers and efforts to insure fair elections as voter suppression. Voter integrity and combating voter fraud is not some right-wing plot.

I have endorsed Kamala Harris and think Donald Trump is a wannabe dictator and the stolen election claim was part of an attempted coup. Nevertheless, I want free and fair elections. No one should support voter fraud. Both Republicans and Democrats should want partisan trained poll watchers at polling places observing the voting process and ready to challenge voters who may attempt to vote who are not authorized to do so and they should want these partisan poll watchers observing the counting of ballots. All citizens should want only those who are qualified to vote in our elections to be able to do so. We should all support periodic purging of voter rolls. 

I have worked as both a paid poll worker and as a trained poll watcher for the Republican Party or for candidates. This was before the days of Trump and Democrats and Republicans worked together in harmony. During the several days of working the polls partisan poll watchers became friends. I think poll watchers respected each other. I hope that is still the case. 

Opposition to voter integrity fuels the claim of a stolen election. We should all want fair elections. Voter integrity is not voter suppression. 

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