How Eric Holder’s Motor Voter System Undermines Election Integrity: Youngkin Weighs In

by Sundance

Appearing on CNN, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin discusses a lawsuit filed last week by the DOJ against the State of Virginia for an effort to remove illegal alien voters from their voter rolls. Within the interview, what Youngkin describes is what Eric Holder set up as a test in CA then rolled out nationally through various sos offices.

Software was created that permits Drivers Licenses to cross reference with Secretary of State offices, or what is known colloquially as “Moter Voter” system.

However, what Holder did was modify the system so that unchecked affirmations [I am legally eligible to vote] would advance to the SoS office. Regardless of whether the affirmation was made, the Driver’s License applicant is registered to vote.

Eric Holder did this first as a legal advisor to California (’17), then tested in the 2018 midterms, then then process was rolled out state by state through 2020 and beyond. WATCH:

“STUNNING” — Gov Glenn Youngkin schools Jake Tapper on DOJ attempts to stop Virginia from REMOVING NON-CITIZENS from its voter rolls.

Youngkin breaks it down very succinctly here:

"Do you think that non-citizens, when they've self-identified as a non-citizen, should stay on… pic.twitter.com/unv1e1Vw4U

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 14, 2024

Transcript – “Do you think that non-citizens, when they’ve self-identified as a non-citizen, should stay on the voter roll and therefore be in a position to potentially vote in a presidential election?”

“They actually tick a box that says I am a non-citizen, or they do not answer the question, that they are a citizen and therefore they self-identify, that they are not a citizen in the United States of America. And this is why this is so out of bounds in my mind from the Justice Department.”

“They fully understand this. They understand the process starts with a person self-identifying as a non-citizen. And then there is a match with that person’s name on the voter rolls. And they are given not just one, but up to three times in order to try to cure it. And this is why I find this to be a very, very unreal moment.”

“It’s stunning that they filed this suit 25 days before a presidential election, when in fact, this has been going on in accordance with our Constitution, the federal Constitution and state law since 2006.”

REFERENCE and CONTEXT is critical to understanding.

After Eric Holder left the Obama administration as Attorney General, he was hired by the State of California to defend against the Trump administration in early January 2017 (LINK).

Why?

When Eric Holder left the Obama administration, his firm was contracted by California during a process of linking the motor vehicle registration files to the Secretary of State voter registration system.  Holder was advising on part of a technology system being constructed to bridge the DMV and SoS offices.  You might know this as a “Motor/Voter” process.  However, former AG Eric Holder had a very specific function in the construction of this technology bridge.

The process of adding voters to the registration rolls when they receive or update their driver’s license was seen as an opportunity to expand the voter rolls.  Making the voter rolls as big as possible is the key to the utilization of mass mail-out balloting.  I will skip the part where California started giving illegal aliens drivers licenses for a moment – you can obviously see how that would play with motor/voter rolls – instead I am choosing just to focus on the specifics of the Holder aspect.

The DMV needed to connect to the SoS office.  This was simply a part of a tech system that needed to be built.  CTH has previously spoken with the lead engineer, a member of a very small technology group, who worked in the California information technology (IT) unit that was tasked with building the system that connected the DMV to the SOS. [NOTE: I invite the state of California to sue me as they will likely claim what you are about to read is not true.]

In the process of connecting the two state networks together, there needed to be a “flag”, essentially a check box, where the applicant to the DMV would attest to being legally authorized to vote.  It is a positive affirmation, a check box, that says the Driver’s License holder affirms they are legally eligible to vote. That affirmation (the technical flag in the process), when affirmed, then transmits the information to the SoS office with the DL operator identity, and the California driver is automatically added to the SoS rolls and registered to vote.

During the time when Eric Holder was the legal counsel for the California Secretary of State, the technology team was constructing the internal data processing systems.

The lead engineer in the unit was instructed to code the data transfer in such a way that even if the “check box” was left unchecked, the registration data would transmit from the DMV to the SoS office.

Essentially, instead of only those who affirmed their legal eligibility by checking the box, everyone -including those who did not check the box- would get a DL and would automatically have their information transmitted to the SoS office.  Everyone who received a driver’s license or state issued id was automatically going to be registered to vote, regardless of their legally authorized status.   That request led the engineer to contact me.

I wrote about it, published the details, then the engineer freaked out as he/she realized there was only a very limited number of people who could expose the issue.  He/She was worried about his/her safety and family and asked me to remove the article.  This background is how I know the details of who, what, when and why the California mass mailing ballot process was being constructed.

In the 2018 midterm elections we all watched the outcome of that process surface in the weeks following election day.  As each day passed more and more California mail-in ballots were being counted and day-by-day Republicans who won on election day 2018 watched their lead evaporate.

What happened in the California 2018 midterm election surrounding state-wide ballot distribution, collection (harvesting) and eventual presentation to the counting and tabulation facilities, was the BETA test for the 2020 covid-inspired national ballot mailing process.

The outcome we saw from the 2022 midterm ballot collection program was not just similar to the 2020 general election ballot collection program, it was a direct outcome of the refined BETA test from 2018.  Now we have multiple states following the California mass distribution of ballots approach.  Washington state, California, Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, there’s a long list.

In many states mass mailing of ballots is now codified in election law.  Activist election lawyer Marc Elias now coming in behind the construction team of Eric Holder with the legal arguments to support the ballot collection programs.

The Importance of Election Rolls – As you can see from the California initiation point (Motor/Voter), in order to most effectively use the mass distribution of ballots as an electioneering process you first need a massive state secretary voter file in order to generate, then mail, the physical ballots.

Remember, votes require people – ballots require systems.

Any institutional system that can link people into the SoS system to generate a larger registration file for ballot distribution is a net positive.  The key point is not to generate voters, the key is to generate ballots – the more the better.  Mass printing of ballots is the origin of the electioneering process.

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