THE VOTER FRAUD CONTROVERSY – AT 8:56 A.M. ET:  The president says there is widespread voter fraud, the anti-Trump mainstream media (which is almost all of it) automatically disagrees.  Where is the truth?  From IBD: 

President Trump, refusing to back down from his claim that millions of illegal votes tipped the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, now wants a comprehensive review of voter integrity in the United States. Whatever Trump's motivation for his claim, it's the right call.

Shortly after the election, Trump said that he would have won the popular vote — which he lost by nearly 3 million votes — if it weren't for "millions of illegal voters."

That sent the mainstream press into a fit of apoplexy, with journalist and left-wing activists denouncing Trump's claim as pure fabrication from a sore winner.

They went into another rage when Trump restated the claim in a meeting with lawmakers this week. The New York Times, which never called Obama out on his many abject lies, declared in its news pages that "Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers."

As we noted in this space before, there is evidence of ineligible voters casting ballots, citing studies that showed how outdated and slipshod voter registrations make it at least possible for noncitizens, and even illegal aliens, to vote. (A Pew Center study found that one out of every eight voter registrations is inaccurate, out-of-date or a duplicate.)

We pointed to 2014 study in the online Electoral Studies Journal which found, alarmingly, that "noncitizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress."

COMMENT:  The piece points out, quoting ace journalists John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, that "we don't know how big of a problem voter fraud really is because no systematic effort has ever been made to investigate it."

So let's find out.  The president has suggested an investigation, and I would suggest a bipartisan investigation is in order, led by people of fine reputation.  We know that there are many cases where strange statistics have come out of election districts, and they may well be impacting Congressional and state elections, if not presidential contests. 

Investigate.  Tell us what we know, what we don't know, and what we need to know.

January 27, 2017