Virginia Governor Vetos Bill That Would Share Date About Voters Registered in Multiple States

Democrats are adamant that voter fraud doesn’t exist — but they’re unwilling to allow anyone to check. This week, Virgina Governor Terry McAuliffe decided to veto a bill that would allow the state to investigate voters who appear on multiple state voting rolls.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D.) vetoed a bill that would require the state Department of Elections to turn over information to local registrars about individuals who are registered to vote in multiple states simultaneously.

McAuliffe has vetoed a handful of bills in recent weeks intended to prevent voter fraud.

The bill, HB 2343, was introduced by Republican delegate Robert B. Bell and would have required the Department of Elections “to provide to the general registrars a list of registered voters who have been found through list comparisons and data-matching exchanges with other states to be registered in another state.”

The bill passed the Virginia House on a 68-30 vote and the Senate on a 23-15 vote. McAuliffe’s veto statement called said the bill would make “unnecessary changes to the election system that could improperly disenfranchise qualified Virginians.”

“Pursuant to Article V, Section 6, of the Constitution of Virginia, I veto House Bill 2343. Requiring the Department of Elections to provide lists of certain voters who may have moved to localities after the Department has conducted list maintenance activities in compliance with state and federal law increases the administrative burden on localities which are currently struggling with limited resources,” his veto statement reads.

“By providing 133 individual general registrars with lists of certain voters and no clear instructions, this bill would invite confusion and increase the possibility of violating federal law. Moreover, it would expose eligible and properly registered Virginians to the risk of improper disenfranchisement.”

Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based group that litigates to protect election integrity, said McAuliffe’s opposition to checking voter rolls across state lines amounts to “paranoia.”

If the Democrats are so sure that voter fraud is a non-issue, they should be willing to back it up with facts. Instead, they’re likely too afraid to see the results of such investigations. Hillary Clinton won in Virgina, and that’s all that matters to McAuliffe.

But it doesn’t matter either way, because the rest of the country chose Donald Trump.

Source: Free Beacon

Photo: Kate Wellington