ELECTION INTEGRITY: Independent group identifies “hundreds of thousands” of irregularities in 2022 Ohio Midterms
An Ohio volunteer group uncovered election irregularities in 2021 and 2022, including a quarter million voters registered before they were born, voters with vague or nonexistent addresses, thousands of voters listed as older than the oldest known living American, and more.
From Leading Report:
BREAKING: Ohio researchers joined United Sovereign Americans and have been able to conduct a peer-reviewed audit of the state’s voter rolls at the time of the 2022 Ohio election and have prepared a report that summarizes the issues they encountered.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) March 25, 2024
The day after certification…
What irregularities persist in Ohio?
The Ohio group linked up with United Sovereign Americans to coordinate their investigation and parse data. The group found, according to American Thinker:
“The day after certification in 2022, the Ohio statewide voter roll database showed:
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58,209 resided in an apartment or in a mobile home lot but had no unit number as required on their voter registration application to ensure proper delivery of mail, including mail-in ballot material.
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4,143 were older than the oldest person in the U.S. at the time or were too young to legally register.
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6,348 had a date of birth that was different in 2022 than it was in 2020.
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253,486 voters supposedly registered on January 1st, 84,221 voters registered on another Federal holiday and 201,693 voters registered on Sunday -- all times when Ohio boards of elections and state offices are closed.
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120,094 had registration dates in the 2022 state voter file that were earlier than their registration date in the 2020 file. 59,025 people were listed as registering to vote before they were born.
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243,583 had state identification numbers that had changed since 2020, even though federal laws require each voter be issued “a unique state identifier.” 34,233 had 2 to 5 registration records with different state identification numbers, making it possible for them to vote more than once.”
While recent Ohio campaigns such as Gov. Mike DeWine’s 2022 reelection and earth-shaking ballot measures on abortion, marijuana legalization, and requirements to get constitutional amendments on the ballot enjoyed comfortable margins, voter rolls show hundreds of thousands of irregularities. Can Ohioans have confidence in statewide election outcomes?
Election irregularities—as old as democracy itself
Questionable elections are nothing new. Napoleon cheated without need in an 1802 election in which historians believe he already had wide margins.
Still, election integrity has been a flashpoint since 2020: media asserted the 2020 election was “free and fair,” after delaring problems in vote counting in Georgia and Philadelphia meant results would be delayed. Meanwhile social media flagged or removed posts from groups and individuals who questioned Biden’s historic late-night comeback. But irregularities in key counties such as Maricopa County, Ariz., Fulton County, Ga., and Wayne County, Mich. persisted and the narrative has become slippery. A mail-in-ballot study revealed Trump may have indeed won the 2020 election.
Ohio election angle
Irregularities in Ohio voter rolls spark questions, even when recent measures have enjoyed comfortable margins, albeit aided by staggering sums of foreign cash.
What will it take to inspire confidence in Ohio elections?
DeWine signed a voter ID bill into law in 2023. But at what point is the damage already done when the media declares victors, and itself kingmaker, and audits of voter rolls and ballots are slow to come and contentiously litigated?
For more on Ohio voter registration findings, see the full story at American Thinker.
