The feds’ censorship machine rolls on even as election-fraud cases keep coming to light

Fight Voter Fraud, Inc. appeared in Connecticut Superior Court to demand the arrest of a woman allegedly caught on video stuffing ballot boxes in the 2019 Bridgeport Democratic mayoral primary. AP

You can see it with your own eyes.

But the left-wing media dismiss it as a “fantasy offense.”

And your federal government has put into place an elaborate scheme to censor any discussion of it on the Internet.

What is it?

Election fraud.

On Tuesday, Fight Voter Fraud, Inc., a nonprofit election-integrity group, appeared in Connecticut Superior Court to demand the arrest of a woman allegedly caught on video stuffing ballot boxes in the 2019 Bridgeport Democratic mayoral primary.

She was caught doing it again in the 2023 primary.

Fight Voter Fraud protested that after the woman was nailed on camera in 2019 and referred to state election authorities, “there has been nothing but inaction,” allowing her to repeat the crime.

The group also called on the Connecticut Legislature to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate election crime in Bridgeport, a Democratic stronghold.

Don’t hold your breath. Democrats control the Legislature, and the party playbook is to deny election fraud is happening.

Worse, new evidence shows the federal government is complicit in censoring anyone who complains about election cheating, in Connecticut or anywhere else.

Never-before-seen emails the House Judiciary Committee released this month reveal a government-sponsored task force is muzzling public figures, thousands of ordinary Americans and media outlets like Newsmax and The Babylon Bee when they report election irregularities.

The emails show that officials within the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department — the deep state — organized the Election Integrity Partnership in 2020, recruiting academics at Stanford University and the University of Washington to flag postings that questioned election honesty and then instruct tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to label the postings “misinformation” or take them down entirely.

Don’t be fooled by the name Election Integrity Partnership. This task force does the opposite — silencing concerns about election integrity.

In 2020 former House Speaker Newt Gingrich objected when Pennsylvania adopted new election rules during COVID that, in his view, invited cheating.

He tweeted, “Pennsylvania democrats are methodically changing the rules so they can steal the election.”

When Nicole Malliotakis was running for Congress in 2020 from Staten Island and southern Brooklyn, she posted on Facebook: “Be sure to vote tomorrow because we’re not only taking on Max Rose, Nancy Pelosi, & Bill de Blasio. We’re taking on Dead Democrats too!”

EIP disagreed and told Facebook to remove her post, which it did.

Even if Malliotakis were wrong about dead people voting, she has a right to raise the issue.

And her thousands of followers have the right to see her views.

In fact, Malliotakis had a point.

A Staten Island grand jury subsequently identified numerous instances of fraud in the City Council race there, including a ballot submitted on behalf of a dead person.

The emails the House Judiciary Committee released should outrage Americans.

The federal government devised a scheme to covertly stamp out public debate over election fraud just when Democrats were pushing many states to adopt new election rules in the face of COVID.

Americans were entitled to hear the pros and cons of those rules.

They still are.

The First Amendment bars government from censoring.

So what did the government do?

It outsourced the censorship to EIP.

All the same, it was government calling the shots, telling third parties to censor on its behalf.

Louisiana and Missouri are suing to stop the federal government’s censorship scheme, and that case is now before the Supreme Court.

The University of Washington’s Kate Starbird, an EIP member, told NPR she’s unhappy with the House Judiciary Committee’s investigation and lawsuits will dampen EIP’s future censorship operations.

No worries. Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to be running for reelection in March 2024.

He, Chinese President Xi Jinping and other dictators who don’t tolerate complaints about election-rigging would find it handy to have their own EIP.

It has no place in America.

A staggering 60% of likely voters nationwide consider election cheating a problem, according to Rasmussen Reports.

Tell our leaders to crack down on election fraud instead of censoring those who dare to report it.

Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.

Twitter: @Betsy_McCaughey