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Had it not been for this article, I'd never have known exactly why widescale voting irregularities existed, i.e., to use Trump's word, "rigged."
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In 2002, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P.L. 107-252, requiring states to verify the information of newly registered voters for federal elections. Each state must establish a computerized state-wide voter registration list and verify new voter information with the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).
States are required to verify the driver’s license number against the MVA’s database. Only in situations where no driver’s license exists may the state verify the last four digits of the new voter’s Social Security Number (SSN). The state submits the last four digits of the SSN, name, and date of birth to the MVA for verification with Social Security Administration (SSA). In addition, SSA is required to report whether its records indicate that the person is deceased.
The information submitted through the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) system is kept confidential and must be used only for voter registration.
In August 2004, SSA developed a new verification process known as the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) system to comply with the requirements of section 303 of HAVA. When an applicant for voter registration does not have a driver’s license, the state may request a 4-digit SSN verification from SSA through HAVV. The state must submit the applicant’s name, date of birth, and last four digits of their SSN.
The Social Security Administration maintains records of all the queries submitted by the 45 states using the HAVV (New Mexico, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia don't use HAVV) since January 2011. Tables showing the results of these queries are downloadable from the SSA website.
Over the last 14 years, these 45 states have submitted 100.5 million queries to the HAVV system. Of these, 28.5 million resulted in no match with social security records for name, date of birth and last four digits of the SSN for the applicants. It is unclear what the election authorities in each state did when notified that there was no match with SSA data.
Five states had more than 1 million non-matches over the last 14 years:
Texas 7,008,783 (Percentage of transactions with No Match: 26%)
California 6,930,820 (73%)
Arizona 2,082,275 (30%)
New York 1,651,519 (46%)
Illinois 1,450,714 (16%)
It is striking that Motor Voter citizenship inquiries in deep blue CA and NY come back as showing no match with SSA records 73% and 46% of the time, respectively.
Articles such as these are precisely the reason you are currently the only writer on Substack for whom I have upgraded to a paid subscription. Well done…again!
I appreciated this article As a side note wouldn’t it be interesting to know who he voted for
Very important and informative article.
One suggestion: tighten it up a bit. You re-state the same argument in full. It was well stated the first time.
keep up the good work.
Don’t look don’t find. The verification tools need to mandated. We can guess why they are not.
Had it not been for this article, I'd never have known exactly why widescale voting irregularities existed, i.e., to use Trump's word, "rigged."
This is why I subscribe to the rigorous analysis and reporting of Amuse - and why everyone reading this should consider supporting such invaluable work.
Democrats use the term ‘no widespread voter fraud’ and then never check to see if it’s widespread. Its called narrative control.
In 2002, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P.L. 107-252, requiring states to verify the information of newly registered voters for federal elections. Each state must establish a computerized state-wide voter registration list and verify new voter information with the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).
States are required to verify the driver’s license number against the MVA’s database. Only in situations where no driver’s license exists may the state verify the last four digits of the new voter’s Social Security Number (SSN). The state submits the last four digits of the SSN, name, and date of birth to the MVA for verification with Social Security Administration (SSA). In addition, SSA is required to report whether its records indicate that the person is deceased.
The information submitted through the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) system is kept confidential and must be used only for voter registration.
(From https://www.ssa.gov/data/havv/)
In August 2004, SSA developed a new verification process known as the Help America Vote Verification (HAVV) system to comply with the requirements of section 303 of HAVA. When an applicant for voter registration does not have a driver’s license, the state may request a 4-digit SSN verification from SSA through HAVV. The state must submit the applicant’s name, date of birth, and last four digits of their SSN.
The Social Security Administration maintains records of all the queries submitted by the 45 states using the HAVV (New Mexico, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia don't use HAVV) since January 2011. Tables showing the results of these queries are downloadable from the SSA website.
Over the last 14 years, these 45 states have submitted 100.5 million queries to the HAVV system. Of these, 28.5 million resulted in no match with social security records for name, date of birth and last four digits of the SSN for the applicants. It is unclear what the election authorities in each state did when notified that there was no match with SSA data.
Five states had more than 1 million non-matches over the last 14 years:
Texas 7,008,783 (Percentage of transactions with No Match: 26%)
California 6,930,820 (73%)
Arizona 2,082,275 (30%)
New York 1,651,519 (46%)
Illinois 1,450,714 (16%)
It is striking that Motor Voter citizenship inquiries in deep blue CA and NY come back as showing no match with SSA records 73% and 46% of the time, respectively.