Great Lakes Wire

As the November general election approaches, pundits on both sides of the political divide continue to raise questions over whether actions from the other side are endangering the results of the national election.

Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, recently appeared on the WJR’s "The Frank Beckmann Show" to discuss the upcoming election and a report from Judicial Watch that Michigan is among eight states with more registered voters than it has residents who are eligible to vote.

McDaniel, who chaired the Michigan Republican Party from 2015 to 2017, told Beckmann that she feels there has been a systematic effort by Democrats not to clean up voter rolls.

“We’ve seen this across states, and we’re seeing this in Michigan,” she told Beckmann. “You should clean up your voter rolls, you should make sure people who moved away are no longer on your voter rolls, people who’ve passed away.”

Preventing that from happening has been a concerted effort on the part of Democrats, McDaniel alleged.

The other seven states that Beckmann said Judicial Watch identified as having too many registered voters were: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont.

McDaniel said that the situation makes the effort by Democrats in states such as Michigan to mail a ballot to every registered voter extremely suspect. It also creates opportunities for fraud.

“We had one voter send us, that they had received 18 ballots at their home,” she told Beckmann. “This is a problem.”

McDaniel said that she doesn’t understand why there isn’t more of a bipartisan effort to ensure voter rolls are purged of ineligible voters and why ballots are simply being sent out without confirmation.

“We should be making sure that everyone who’s eligible to vote should be, but we also need safeguards in our system to make sure that there is no potential for fraud, and we have surety in our elections,” McDaniel told Beckmann.