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Border crisis does pose threat to election integrity
Charles Selle appears to have an issue with individuals’ frustrations about our open border crisis. I found the comments of his detractors to be quite eloquent and on the mark. His attempt to minimize them does not diminish their truth.
“Surely that was a one-off in the annals of true Americans committing felony vote fraud.” I had to reread this one a couple of times to determine if this was an attempt at sarcasm, but then noticed “true” inserted before “Americans,” and then understood that he would get to control the definition of this.
It’s not about winning elections by wide margins across the board, it’s just about winning in the highly contested battleground areas by just enough. It is alleged that a very young LBJ bragged to FDR about stuffing the ballot box. FDR’s response was to ask him if he sat on the ballot box afterward. Fast forward to LBJ’s U.S. senatorial win in Texas in 1948, and check out the “Box 13 scandal.”
Other elections involving “true Americans” include Jim Jones bussing in his cult to turn the tide for George Moscone in the 1975 San Francisco mayoral election. Al Franken may very well have been an undeserving winner in his 2008 U.S. Senate run against Coleman in Minnesota. So, if convicted felons can vote, why not “migrants?”
This influx of “migrants” puts elections in unchartered territory. They replace those that have fled states with failed policies, thus allowing those states to maintain their congressional firepower. Selle’s statement that it is a lie to say that they would participate in the election process is false in that he cannot predict the future.
And given the emergence of no ID required to vote, voting by mail and ballot harvesting, what could possibly go wrong?
Dave Schwartz, Naperville
