It's important to note - this story was on Yahoo.com this morning, linking to a story by the Salt Lake Tribune (neither of which are fond of Trump), and are used as "proof" (the "comments" section on the SLT link reflects precisely that mindset), by the Left, that voter fraud on a
massive scale isn't happening.
What this story and the other story posted previously fails to take into account, is that:
1.) The data isn't conclusive, nor is it even inclusive of every case.
2.) The stories posted here (including this one), only represent the states of Ohio and Wisconsin, and do not represent the major strongholds of Democrats, in which cases of voter fraud may not be being investigated fervently.
Madison, Wis. • Dozens of 17-year-olds voted illegally across Wisconsin during last spring's intense presidential primary, apparently wrongly believing they could cast ballots if they turned 18 ahead of the November general election, according to a new state report.
Wisconsin Elections Commission staff examined voter fraud referrals municipal clerks said they made to prosecutors following the 2016 spring primary and general elections. The commission is set to approve the findings during a meeting Tuesday and forward a report to the Legislature.
President Donald Trump has called for a "major investigation" into voter fraud and alleged that 3 million to 5 million people may have voted illegally in the November general election, a widely debunked claim. The report lists no instances of underage voters casting ballots in the general election.
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Republican Ted Cruz won the GOP primary in Wisconsin. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic contest. The state ultimately voted for Trump in the November general election, marking the first time a Republican presidential candidate had won Wisconsin since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
The report found at least 60 cases of 17-year-olds voting in the April primary in 29 counties. Kewaunee County referred nine people to prosecutors for voting as 17-year-olds, Rock County referred seven and Racine County referred five. Brown County referred what the report called "multiple" 17-year-olds to prosecutors. The report did not track charging decisions or for whom the 17-year-olds voted.
Commission spokesman Reid Magney said Monday that he'd never seen this issue crop up before. The teenagers were likely encouraged to go to the polls by messages flying around social media during the spring primary season saying 17-year-olds can vote in some states as long as they turn 18 before the November election, the report said.
Some political campaigns were also spreading false information about eligibility, the report said. The Sanders campaign specifically was sending out national messages on social media about 17-year-olds being able to vote in presidential primaries, Magney said, although Wisconsin election officials didn't see any misinformation from that campaign about Wisconsin.
No one under 18 can vote in any Wisconsin election, but 17-year-olds may have seen Sanders' messages and thought they could vote. Poll workers may not have understood the law or may not have been paying enough attention, he added.
"It wasn't a case of anyone sneaking in," Magney said. "It was a misunderstanding of the law."
Sanders campaign officials didn't immediately respond to an email Monday seeking comment.
Kewaunee County District Attorney Andrew Naze said he chose not to charge any of the 17-year-olds whom clerks referred to him. He said they honestly thought they were eligible to vote and didn't intend to break the law. Prosecutors in Rock, Racine and Brown counties didn't immediately respond to messages Monday.
The report noted that its findings aren't conclusive and it's possible other instances of suspected fraud may have been referred to prosecutors without the commission's knowledge or people may have filed complaints directly with district attorneys.http://www.sltrib.com/home/5052118-155/story.htmlIt is obvious that voting in the primary is not the same as casting an official ballot in the presidential election. It does however, mean that minors were involving themselves in an election they had no right to, proving an important point as to the mindset of people in the country who clearly do not follow the law when it will benefit their political beliefs.
If this can be proven, regardless of the scale, and only in places where the desire to ferret out such cases exists, how many people without voting rights, are potentially voting?
There have been several instances in the United States, where elections are decided by very few ballots, and in some cases, even by single ballots.
Just this morning, there is another story in the new by Yahoo (
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/0ba276cc-b9c7-39cb-bd82-a00a566fc764/pregnant-guatemalan-mother-of.html), in which a Guatemalan woman who had come to the United States illegally at the age of 15, and has since had 5 children, is set to be deported. When the risks and rewards for illegal behavior are so high, the motive to vote illegally certainly exists. In places where voter fraud isn't investigated, and with Barrack Obama himself seemingly condoning illegal voting, the need for voter ID has already been established.
An extremely important aspect not mentioned in the story, is that the report mentions "minors" and not "non-citizens." How are they verifying going about the verification of citizenship? Who is on the investigative commission?Additional Data:Wisconsin Elections Commission Staff - Alphabetical Listing
http://elections.wi.gov/about/staffMichael Haas Administrator - Democrat - "Haas, long before he began working for the GAB in 2008, was an aide for then-Assembly Speaker Thomas A. Loftus, D-Sun Prairie, in 1989. And Haas was at the center of campaign finance controversy that pre-dated the so-called “Caucus Scandal” more than a decade later and the more recent unconstitutional John Doe probe the state Supreme Court has ordered shut down."
http://watchdog.org/239568/gab-partisan-michael-haas/Mark Thomsen - Wisconsin State Election Commission Chairman Democrat
http://elections.wi.gov/about/membersTo be fair, the Wisconsin State Elections Commission consists of six people, divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats do fill the Chair and Vice-Chair positions though.
Edit: Andrew Naze - Kewaunee County District Attorney - is also a Democrat - Listed on page 12 of the following:
http://ethics.state.wi.us/newsandnotices/ElectionFallPotentialCandFiled.pdf and page 49 of the following pdf file listed below.
David J. O'Leary - Rock County District Attorney - Democrat - page 55 -
http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/page/candidates_on_ballot_aug_9_partisan_primary_after_20612.pdfPatricia J. Hanson - Racine County District Attorney - Republican - page 54 -
http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/page/candidates_on_ballot_aug_9_partisan_primary_after_20612.pdfDavid L. Lasee - Brown County District Attorney - Republican - page 43 -
http://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/page/candidates_on_ballot_aug_9_partisan_primary_after_20612.pdf