Here are some facts that can be connected:
The New Hampshire-Massachusetts border is just a 40-minute drive for progressive Bostonians interested in civic affairs.
The Granite State has same-day registration, meaning you can register to vote and cast your ballot the same day.
Every four years, New Hampshire holds the first presidential primary election in the country’s history.
In 2014 and 2016, state Attorney General Joe Foster, a Democrat, sent a memo to local election officials warning them that they could not deny the right to vote to people who wanted to do so.
In February 2016, a provocative video by Project Veritas revealed how multiple New Hampshire election officials told people they could vote in the primary election even if they did not live in New Hampshire or had no intention of living here.
Finally, recently released state data reveal that 6,540 people registered to vote in New Hampshire on Election Day 2016 (November 8) using out-of-state driver’s licenses. Since then, 5,526 of those people have never obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license, and only 213 of them have registered a vehicle in New Hampshire.
This is not a recipe for election fraud; it is a fully baked cake.
Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire by 2,736 votes out of 745,000 cast. Republican incumbent Senator Kelly Ayotte lost her seat to Democrat Maggie Hassan by just 1,017 votes out of 739,140 cast. Mr. Trump was ridiculed for insisting that Democrats used illegal votes to steal the election. The evidence suggests he was right.
For years, liberal carpetbaggers from Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut had flocked to swing state New Hampshire, ostensibly to support Democratic campaigns. To vote, they had only to declare their “residence” in the state and their intention to remain there. No proof was needed.
“Voter fraud in New Hampshire has reached Lucille Ball levels in the chocolate factory. And the chocolates are spilling out of the box,” said Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers President Ed Naile, who has tracked voter fraud for 17 years.
“In November, after examining 30 absentee ballots returned in Manchester, we caught a woman from Florida who had been voting in Florida since 1998 and had been voting here for 10 years.”
In 2000, an election official informed Mr. Naile’s group about 22 absentee ballot return envelopes for out-of-state AmeriCorps workers who had come to New Hampshire in 1996 to “clear the trail” but were really there to vote for Bill Clinton. They all claimed to live at the same address — a public park.
Mr. Naile said local officials have presented the information to authorities, but nothing has been done. So now he has submitted it and other evidence of how badly New Hampshire elections are being run to the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which meets Tuesday (Sept. 12) near Manchester, New Hampshire.
Commission Vice Chairman Kris Kobach, who is the Kansas secretary of state, will chair the meeting. Mr. Kobach wrote this week that the vast number of out-of-state voters in New Hampshire in November was “more than enough to affect the outcome of two very important elections.”
Not surprisingly, various left-wing groups have announced plans to protest the meeting, confusing its mission to ensure election integrity with “voter suppression” or even “white supremacy.”
The state’s recent voter ID law, passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed in July by Gov. Chris Sununu, takes effect Tuesday. The law requires voters who move to the state within 30 days of the election to show proof they intend to stay.
The usual suspects groaned loudly as he was brought in.
“There is no widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire,” Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the ACLU of New Hampshire, argued earnestly in the column. “President Trump is wrong. … If there is a belief that there is widespread voter fraud, the proper and obvious response is to educate the public that such fraud does not exist, rather than to succumb to such a lie.”
I wonder how Mr. Bissonnette will present the news about the 5,526 out-of-state voters who have never bothered to get a New Hampshire driver’s license?
In slow August, Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias filed a lawsuit asking a district judge to issue an injunction against New Hampshire’s voter ID law. The lead plaintiffs are the League of Women Voters, a leftist group posing as a nonpartisan charity, and three individuals.
The lawsuit was joined by the New Hampshire Democratic Party and is being backed by Priorities USA, the largest political action committee supporting the Clinton campaign, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which reports that “Priorities received $9.5 million from [George] Soros throughout the 2016 election cycle.”
Flush with cash, Mr. Elias has traveled from state to state, filing challenges to voter ID laws in Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina. The left is desperate to create the perfect conditions for voter fraud. That becomes more obvious with each recent lawsuit.
But the facts are starting to catch up with them – and they know it.
