OPINION:
Dirty voter rolls yield dirty elections. Alas, America’s voter files are filthy. The good news is that a high-tech security expert has carved a pristine path out of this dump. Will Republicans be smart enough to follow it before Democrats steal the White House again?
Jay Valentine is vice president of operations with Fractal Computing. He and his company developed eBay’s anti-fraud systems and created the anti-terrorist software behind the Transportation Security Administration’s no-fly list. They protect Geico and State Farm from insurance cheats and the power grid from hackers.
Mr. Valentine and Fractal have harnessed their technical prowess to help citizens cleanse the Augean stable that is America’s election system. Republican honest-vote advocates are battling the Democrats’ quiet but effective ballot-creation machine. Thousands of GOP lawyers and election observers have volunteered to patrol precincts and oversee tabulation stations in November.
That might be too late.
Election rolls are littered with dead, relocated and phantom “voters,” ineligible foreign citizens, even illegal aliens. Unless Republicans intervene immediately, these people will receive mass-mail ballots. Democratic ballot traffickers will harvest, complete and submit them on behalf of “voters” who are unqualified to pick America’s president and other leaders.
As deadlines loom, Republicans must shift from today’s retail method of voter-roll cleanup (scrutinize suspicious voters individually) to Fractal’s wholesale strategy: Compare voter rolls with property tax records and challenge fishy or phony addresses where hundreds of thousands of phantom “voters” are registered illegally.
Using this technique, swing-state activists confirm that their election records reek of irregularities — or worse:
Georgia (16 Electoral College votes): According to Fractal, 558,876 phantom “voters” include 114,817 tied to invalid addresses, per the Postal Service, and 68,983 who are registered, despite living permanently outside the Peach State.
In Norcross, Georgia, 65 voters were registered at Jones Recreational Vehicle Park. Although the park limits stays to two weeks, Mr. Valentine said, lodgers have “cast ballots for many, many years” — including 2020.
Georgia’s records include 1,641 people listed as age 110-plus. At least 25 share a birth date: Jan. 1, 1800. These 224-year-olds might need special care to cast their mail-in ballots.
Nevada (six electoral votes): In Washoe County (Reno) between Feb. 14 and Aug. 19, 2022, 37 voters claimed to live in public parks. This cohort nearly septupled to 248. Casino-dwelling registrants climbed from 51 to 295. Parking lot-based voters grew from 728 to 1,479.
“Our thesis is that we should not mail ballots to people in parking garages,” Mr. Valentine declared. “We don’t think that’s a hard case to make.”
North Carolina (16 electoral votes): Among 432,299 phantom “voters,” 159,520 are registered at invalid addresses and 91,264 have moved away.
Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes): Fractal identifies 1,420,435 phantom “voters” in the Keystone State. These include 323,524 rental-building residents without recorded apartment numbers. Postal workers often leave their mail-in ballots in lobbies, where they lie about, get discarded or otherwise succumb to theft and abuse. Another 346,505 are registered at invalid addresses. And 262,488 are registered in Pennsylvania despite shipping out.
Wisconsin (10 electoral votes): As of March 19, voter rolls included 22,973 men and women with the same phone number in the 262 area code. This included 225 active voters. The balance of voters is inactive — both living and dead. Among them, 11 voters registered in 1927.
“The problem is that Wisconsin keeps records with 50% of the voters on inactive status. Nobody else does anything close to that,” Mr. Valentine lamented. “They can, and do, move ‘voters’ from inactive, to active, vote them, and move them back to inactive.”
“We here in Wisconsin are running registration list data almost daily in different suspect municipalities and tracking the growth in registrations,” one Fractal user told me. “We see the names and addresses and run those against other data to flag phantom voters. We never contact any voter. We challenge the county clerks who send out phantom ballots. If they know we are watching, they will be less likely to mail out shady ballots, because they don’t want to get in trouble.”
Mr. Valentine, Fractal and the watchdogs whom they assist do not target individual voters. This is inefficient and ineffective. Instead, they identify fishy or fake venues rife with “registered voters.”
“Addresses do not have rights,” Mr. Valentine explained. “Addresses do not have lawyers.”
They report these problematic addresses to election officials so that ballots are neither mailed to nor accepted from these places. If someone genuinely calls a vacant lot home, he can visit the polls and ask to vote. But mail-in ballots should not reach that spot and, quite likely, land in the hands of Democratic evildoers.
Unlike the GOP’s antiquated techniques, Fractal’s software promotes such voter-roll hygiene.
“Quantum tech is like the MRI and CAT scan seeing what the X-ray misses,” Mr. Valentine explained. Fractal quantum technology performs 200 million calculations per second. “We are reconciling government voter rolls with government property-tax records. These government records should agree with each other.” When they conflict, Fractal’s klaxons squawk.
“We can see people aggregating at ineligible locations, like industrial buildings, across time,” he added. “In my first snapshot, I might have 10 voters. And then I have 50 voters. And then I have 300 voters in a place with no bedrooms. And that’s how we find illegal-ballot mills.”
Mr. Valentine reckons that each swing state has at least 500,000 phantom “voters” controlled all but exclusively by Trump-loathing Democrats and left-wing nongovermental organizations. Mr. Valentine estimates that for $7 million, he could deploy teams of election-integrity sleuths to isolate ineligible properties and halt mail-in ballots destined for those addresses.
For a fraction of most campaign budgets, Mr. Valentine and Fractal Computing could level the playing field for former President Donald Trump and Republicans in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
If Democrats truly believe in Vice President Kamala Harris and their cause, they should relish such a fair fight.
• Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
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