Years ago, I read a book entitled the “Great Deceit” by Zygmund Dobbs and Archibald Roosevelt. Archibald, was Teddy Roosevelts only surviving son, from the ravages of WW1.

Within the pages of that book was the discussion of the founding of the Federal Reserve and the political nuances necessary to achieve what has become a yoke on the United States neck. The ramification of this event lives with us today. My grandfather lost all of his livelihood, in the collapse of the 1929 depression.

That historical information of the Congressional acceptance of the Federal Reserve came back to me, in the ongoing vigorous National discussion of voter anomalies across this one-of-a-kind Country.

The implications are severe, and Oregon, one of the fifty States involved in reporting, aroused my curiosity. In an article by Judicial Watch, five States including Oregon, had received notice of having anomalies in voter registration records. I had always thought we had a stable election program, so how does this possibly exist?

Turns out, the Federal law requires an agency, The Election Assistance Commission (EAC), to report to Congress every two years in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). To prepare the report, and properly follow the rules, the States are required to report to the EAC, their data to form the report for the NVRA, and the EAC properly publishes the finished report.

Upon simple review of the reports provided by Oregon, the recognition that Oregon was in violation of the National Voter Registration Act came to the forefront.

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Judicial Watch informed Secretary of State Shemia Fagan that fourteen Oregon counties were in violation for not cleaning their voter rolls according to NVRA in a four-year period. These counties reported zero to five removals from the voter rolls. They found eleven other counties with similar violations over the last two years. They write, “It is simply not possible to comply with the NVRA while removing zero or literal handfuls of registrations under that provision. Many tens of thousands of voters must have changed residence without notifying election officials during those years.” The Judicial Watch Attorney Robert D. Popper gave Statutory Notice of Violations and a possible federal lawsuit unless the violations were corrected.

Have they been corrected? Instead, the Secretary of State has doubled down on HB 2681, passed in 2021, to keep people on the voter rolls forever, and making it harder for citizens to make public records requests.

When the State itself reports the anomalies in the Voter Registration Reporting Act report, we as a State should require proper cleansing of the anomalies. Judicial Watch cited 27 counties in Oregon with violations, and say they have not determined what action they will take.

For me and my family, we are in the position that “If my neighbor has a challenge, I as his neighbor also has a challenge”. Remembering the quote: “History is the engine of the future”, the reality of voter Registrations must be investigated, not ignored. Like my grandfather, no one deserves to lose everything, and voting is the one sacrosanct action that should be inviolate. This must be investigated.

Oregonians, regardless of party, deserve the reassurance that their singular action of voting is adjudicated correctly.


--LT Robert K Powell GDO

Retired U.S. Coast Guard

Post Date: 2022-10-31 14:55:20

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