{"id":45746,"date":"2023-02-15T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=45746"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:10:41","slug":"electile-dysfunction-phantoms-sleepers-and-hiders-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/electile-dysfunction-phantoms-sleepers-and-hiders-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Electile Dysfunction: Phantoms, Sleepers and Hiders, Oh, My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Chuck Muth)<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Make no mistake, \u2018fake\u201d registrations exist on voter rolls.\u00a0
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They include multiple voters of the same name and age, dead people, people registered at P.O. boxes, and people who have moved permanently but remain on the Active voter list at their old address.
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It also includes voters registered at apartment complexes with no unit number.\u00a0
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This is one reason you see reports of stacks of mail-in ballots at apartment complexes.\u00a0 Fraudsters know when mail-in ballots are sent out by the election department, and then check each day to see how many ballots they can pick up from the lobby.
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\u201cPhantom\u201d voters are individuals on the voter rolls who don\u2019t exist.\u00a0 Or exist but don\u2019t know they voted\u2026or, more to the point, don\u2019t know someone else voted for them.\u00a0
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Phantoms include people who are unlawfully registered to vote at P.O. boxes or businesses or vacant lots and somehow cast a ballot.\u00a0 They can also include individuals who moved from one state to another and yet someone else cast a ballot in their prior state without their knowledge.
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That this occurs isn\u2019t debatable.\u00a0 It does.\u00a0 The question is how widespread the problem is and what to do about it.
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\u201cSleepers\u201d are voters who legally registered to vote at some time but, for whatever reason, choose not to vote.\u00a0 Sleepers usually have no idea that someone is voting for them unless, for example, they show up to vote in-person and are told, \u201cYou already voted by mail.\u201d
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Sleepers can also include the elderly and others with cognitive impairments.\u00a0 They\u2019re lawfully on the voter rolls but can\u2019t even identify a close family relative, let alone who\u2019s running for what office.\u00a0
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The danger is in \u201cballot harvesters\u201d collecting ballots from such vulnerable individuals in assisted living facilities and nursing homes and voting on their behalf \u2013 which can be the difference in a close election.
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\u201cHiders\u201d are individuals who intentionally try to register at more than one address by making only slight changes in their registration applications.\u00a0 For example, on one registration application they use the last name \u201cOwen\u201d and on the second application at a different address they use the last name \u201cOwens.\u201d\u00a0
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They then vote both ballots \u2013 absolutely voting fraud.
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It takes a lot of time and effort to identify and confirm phantoms, sleepers and hiders in the voter rolls.\u00a0 But it\u2019s a critically important effort to assure as close to a perfect list of legal voters as possible\u00a0BEFORE<\/u>\u00a0election day to stop ballots from being mailed to addresses where the voter no longer lives.
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Because, as Scott McKay, contributing editor of The American Spectator, warns: \u201cWhen those ballots go out in the mail,\u201d there could well be someone \u201cwho\u2019ll be there to collect them, fill them out, and send them back in or drop them off.\u201d
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There are existing laws against this practice for voters who vote in-person, but the new mail-in laws conflict with the clear intent of \u201celectioneering\u201d restrictions.
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NRS 293.361 states that \u201ca person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure or political party in or within 100 feet from the entrance to the voting area.\u201d\u00a0 This to assure an individual\u2019s secret ballot and deter intimidation or harassment.
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Yet no such protection is afforded to those casting a mail-in ballot.\u00a0 A ballot \u201charvester\u201d can sit right next to a voter, watch \u2013 if not assist \u2013 the voter in filling out their ballot, and then casting it themselves by dropping the ballot off in the mail or a drop-box.
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This makes it easier to cast fraudulent ballots for phantoms, sleepers, and hiders.\u00a0 Which is why it\u2019s so important to identify them and do what\u2019s necessary to remove them from the voter rolls BEFORE election day, not after.
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Coming up next: How to identify suspected bad registrations and what to do about it.
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FAMOUS LAST WORDS<\/strong>
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\u201cNevada has all-mail ballot elections meaning that all active registrants are automatically mailed ballots. Running an election by mail requires extremely accurate voter rolls to ensure ballots are reaching the intended voters.\u00a0 Unfortunately, Nevada\u2019s voter rolls contain tens of thousands of errors. These errors include deceased and duplicate registrants and incorrect addresses on the voter rolls.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Public Interest Legal Foundation<\/em><\/strong>
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Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, publisher of Nevada News & Views, and founder of CampaignDoctor.com.\u00a0 You can sign up for his conservative, Nevada-focused e-newsletter at MuthsTruths.com.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)\u00a0\u2013 Make no mistake, \u2018fake\u201d registrations exist on voter rolls.\u00a0\u00a0They include multiple voters of the same name and age, dead people, people registered at P.O. boxes, and people who have moved permanently but remain on the Active voter list at their old address.\u00a0It also includes voters registered at apartment complexes with no unit number.\u00a0\u00a0This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88897,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45748,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45746\/revisions\/45748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}