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The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) has started requesting voter rolls from Secretaries of State. Voter fraud is as old as Rome, and perhaps some politicians view it as a vulnerable and valid tradition. No citizen would agree. Whether one is Left or Right, or resides outside the United States in a parliamentary system, we want our votes to count, and they should. The idea of representational government goes back to the Old Testament and Athens. But there will always be people who want to game system.

Connecticut is one of the states whose voter rolls have been requested by the DOJ. And Connecticut residents are well aware that voter fraud exists here. Ballot box stuffing is well documented in Bridgeport, although many people claim that this is an isolated incident - because, Bridgeport - it is not.

While it might be easy to assume that the federal DOJ is merely harassing the Connecticut Secretary of State, the reality is that both Pam Bondi‘s office and the state Department of Justice officials have in their possession clear evidence of voter fraud. It is substantial.

The organization Fight Voter Fraud (FVF) has been examining Connecticut voter rolls since 2018. FVF started with a Freedom of Information Act request to every Registrar of Voters in Connecticut. FVF also acquired a copy from the Secretary of State.

Registrars of Voters have the responsibility for keeping voter rolls limited to the people in their town who are legally allowed to vote. They are supposed to go through the voter rolls every two years, and make sure that the people who are on those rolls actually live and have residence in the town where they registered. They are also to be sure that people who have moved away or died have been removed, and that every voter registration is free from material errors. By federal law, any voter registration must be 100% accurate, including name, address, and date. An inaccurate registration means that that person should not have voted. The Connecticut State Constitution says that voters must be US citizens.

FVF found many such material errors. But most of its attempts to draw attention to the errors were met with silence. Silence from the Secretary of State, silence from Registrars of Voters, silence from the Connecticut Democrat and Republican parties, silence from the SEEC, silence from the Connecticut Department of Justice.

Where are the registrars of voters in this issue?

FVF did what it could to help registrars clean up their voting rolls. Some town registrars sought volunteer help and got the job done. Others did not. FVF discovered that there were a great many registrars who had never even finished the state-mandated registrar training offered online by UConn, and paid for by town citizens via taxes to the tune of $1,600.

That $1,600 fee is certainly not an incentive for a town to invite new registrars to run, and many registrars are over 70 years old. The issue is then compounded by the fact that the state system is almost as old. Some readers may recognize the now unused programming language of COBOL. To say the system is outdated is a profound understatement. FVF has a little sympathy for the registrars. It is, after all, their job to maintain the voter rolls and provide copies of them when FOIA requests are issued. It is their job to make sure that they have taken the class that is required.

The organization United Americans takes a slightly different approach to election validity.

While it also examines the voter rolls, United Americans do so specifically in the context of federal law, and the number of errors which are permitted in any given election. That number is 1 in 125,000 votes. That means, that of 125,000 voters who voted, only one of those voters would be allowed to have an error on their voter registration according to the Help America Vote Act.

United Americans has performed deep researches in 32 states, and in not one of those states was this error rate within the acceptable range. While Connecticut’s scorecard was only recently finished, evidence from numerous other states was provided to the Biden DOJ. It was ignored.

So how bad is Connecticut?

Research from United Americans’ Connecticut team uncovered from the 2022 election, 135,921 unresolved voter errors. They also discovered 58,864 more votes had been certified by the Secretary of State than could be accounted for in the voting data. What those numbers mean is that there were over 58,000 votes that didn’t exist.

FVF did an analysis of the 2024 election and the numbers they found were just as bad: 26% of the votes reported by the media disappeared from the final tally. Whether this is deliberate or raw incompetence will have to be determined by a court.

Either way, those who certify elections are criminally liable in the event that an outcome is inaccurate.

That isn’t the only problem with Connecticut elections.

Connecticut has voting tabulators. In the last election, many of those tabulators were old and uncertified. But however old they are, a dramatic court case in Georgia approved how unreliable tabulators can be. As Marly Hornik of United Americans points out, voting tabulators are a national security issue. If voters do not have 100% trust in the process, we are less likely to participate, leaving us open and vulnerable. While Connecticut spent $25 million to buy new tabulators, there is no requirement that towns use them.

ARTICLE XXXIII. Voting machines or other mechanical devices for voting may be used in all elections in this state, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law; provided, however, that the right of secret voting shall be preserved. [italics for emphasis] Art. 33.  Adopted October, 1905.

The claim is that the new tabulators are in no way connected to the internet. While they are not plugged into the wall, the first thing that’s done with any new tabulator is that a flash drive, provided by the state, is plugged into the internet at a specific website, where it then gets it programming commands. It then gets plugged into the machine. This could hardly be called a clean system.

Given the lack of response on a state level to the numerous issues covered by these two organizations, it is apparent that external help will be necessary to ensure valid elections in the future. This should be something that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

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