At the national level, a president's commission on election integrity is looking into voter fraud, to see how serious and widespread it may be in tipping the election in one direction or another. By comparing voter records among the various states, the commission seeks the commonsense approach of comparing their voter roles to see how much duplicate voting there may be.
In Maryland, voter fraud has been found, and some have alleged that it is so widespread that it swings the results of elections in such prominent races as for congress or governor. Sadly, the Maryland general assembly makes investigating this problem difficult in a number of ways, such as by setting up lax registration procedures and opposing commonsense voter ID requirements at the polls. In Prince George's County, the extent of non-citizen and illegal voting is made more problematic by the county government's official non-cooperation with federal authorities seeking to identify and detail illegal aliens. In the dark, who can trust the assurances of politicians who have turned the lights out in the matter? Ex-president Obama famously pointed to the danger of this naive concept: "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are those with something to hide". Full, open disclosure is needed, and the president's commission is a simple and obvious approach. So, why are some states so resistant to this analysis?
Several towns in Maryland, including some in Prince George's County, are now seeking to legalize non-citizen voting, under the guise of "community inclusion". In College Park, this issue is under consideration, which has stirred up serious questioning about the motivation of the politicians advocating this action. One resident, James Garvin, said it this way:
I strongly oppose this College Park Amendment 17-CR-02, To Extend Municipal Voting Rights to Non-Citizens.
A separate voter registration process is beyond the charter of our town and is a gross over reach of the existing mayor and council and is nothing but "national level political theater" . This registration burden shall be placed on the taxpayer of College Park, when one with more resources -PG county's - is established and functioning and taxpayer funded now. This demand from this new uncharted system shall increase in budgetary burden yearly I am sure, and what system will exist for challenges and appeals?. What will the mayor and council do when a true legal challenge is made to this proposed "private"system? further burden the town with legal costs for defending an extrajudicial self serving and self controlled voter registration system? I DO NOT TRUST the mayor, the council or the University - which injects itself in all town matters and in the end controls all town our functions now- with the unchecked power a separate, unequal, self serving, and unregulated, and as of now unfunded "private college park" voter registration system. It shall function as a personal gerrymandering tool for the mayor and council and the university development interests they are beholden too. I fear this action is a bold felonious power grab, and if done shall embroil the town in endless legal challenge. My own mother was an immigrant that voted in the first election upon completion of her citizenship, and every one there after- I see no compelling injustice that requires my town to overtake a good functional system. Perhaps the only compelling situation is the upcoming local election, where a private locally controlled and manipulated voter registration system is needed for those in office to keep office? For those in power to obtain more power unchecked and unobserved so they can sell favors to developers?
This is absurd. What next ? establish a City of College Park state department to negotiate with foreign governments? Or perhaps establish our own College Park concentration / re-education camps to hold those that do not vote and register the way the council wishes and will demand of us?