Does My Vote Really Count? by Joe Atkinson
In simple terms, YES!
There are an estimated 5 million gun owners in NYS and we estimate only 1.3 million of us voted. (3.7 million did not vote.) Just think what the outcome would’ve been if we all voted our rights to own a firearm. Zeldin lost by about 378,000 votes.
In more complicated terms, there are major problems with the election system in New York State.
New York Citizens Audit (NYCA) sent Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to the New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) and the 62 county boards of election in NY state asking for voter and election records from 2020. They received a complete record from the NYSBOE and 7 counties but 42 counties only gave them part of what they asked for. The remainder did not respond at all.
There are 3 basic tenets of an election:
1) Voter rolls must be accurate.
2) Votes counted must be from qualified voters.
3) The number of votes must equal the number of voters.
- No residential address in the registration data.
- Votes recorded before the registration date. That is, they voted before they were registered. Is it a clerical error, or database manipulation? All we know is that these voters are ineligible because of the NYS Election Laws.
- Votes recorded after the purge date; they voted after their registration was purged.
- Voter records purged with no purge date. If there’s no purge date, votes can be created using a voter’s ID and we don’t know if they were created before or after they were purged. It leaves a huge window for fraud.
- Voters who voted before their date of birth shows them to be 18 years old.
- Voters who registered after the registration cut-off date but still voted.
When processing the data from the NYSBOE, the NY Citizens Audit researchers found the following anomalies:
Under NYS Election Law each registrant is only supposed to have one NYS Voter ID number. 2,427,827 New York State Voter ID numbers were attached to 1,170,790 registrants. That means there are 1,257,037 excess voter ID numbers in the system. We call these people “Clones”.
“Clones” are single person registrants with multiple New York State Voter ID numbers. They have the same First and Last Name and Date of Birth. These persons probably don’t know that they have multiple numbers. Somewhere between the County Boards of Election and the NYS Board of Elections, these multiple state voter ID numbers are created.
Between 1900 to 2021 a total of 987,490 voters registered on January 1st, which is a Federal Holiday and government offices are closed.
1.9 million more registrations on the state voter rolls than on the county voter rolls.
625,359 more registrations than voting-age citizens in just 6 counties.
740,396 ineligible votes statewide in 2020
338,356 more votes cast than voters who voted in 2020. (Combined Federal and all 50 states)
195,271 votes cast in New York City by voters who were not in the ‘NYSVoter’ database in Albany. This means that these votes show up in the New York City voter records, but do not show up in the NYSVoter database in Albany.
Some of these clones have voted! Some may have, without knowing it, double voted. How could it happen? Somewhere between the County Boards of Election and the NYS Board of Elections, these multiple votes are created in the system.
In my county there are 735 clones and 16 have voted. The worst case is a clone that double voted 8 times between 2010 and 2020. (Someone else used their number to vote or created the votes by hacking the database.)
No one is immune! 7% of our NYS Assemblyman are clones. It doesn’t matter what party they’re in. The worst case I know of is an assemblyperson who is high ranking in their party and has 4 numbers; 2 registered in their party and 2 registered in another party.
There are other reasons that voters can be ineligible to vote based on their registrations:
Does my vote count? The complicated answer to the question is still YES. But there are issues in the system that dilute the value of our votes. Until these and other issues are fixed, it is imperative on each one of us to make sure that we all vote to help overcome the dilution of the value of each individual’s vote.
As a lawful gun owner, I’m scared to see that my right to self-defense is being eroded away by an election system that can be easily rigged because my vote’s value is diluted by ineligible votes being cast in opposition to my own vote.
Note: I am a strike team leader for New York Citizens Audit in Chemung County along with being a member of SCOPE. New York Citizens Audit is an all-volunteer grassroots organization whose mission is to fight for honest and provable elections. Our goal is to have an end-to-end audit of the entire election system conducted by a bonded and insured independent auditor. If you would like either a summary of our findings or a more detailed report called “New York’s 2020 General Election: A Study in Deficits”, I can be reached at Taskforce@stny.rr.com. Or you can go to our website at www.auditny.com. Recordings of our presentations can be seen on Rumble. Type “New York Citizens Audit News” in the search box.
