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A Gore reinvention of a government program called Citizenship USA has been getting a closer look of late, thanks to David Schippers's book, Sell Out. Schippers reports: Our sources inside the INS revealed that, in preparation for the 2000 elections, INS agents in the district offices were directed to relax the testing for English, complete every interview within twenty minutes, and ensure that all applicants pass the Civics test by continuing to ask questions until an applicant got a sufficient number right. Sometimes it was necessary to ask twenty or twenty-five questions before four or five were answered correctly. Sell Out also includes an appendix of documents which demonstrate Al Gore's direct involvement in turning Citizenship USA into "a pro-Democrat voter mill" in which English tests were waived and criminal records of prospective citizens swept under the rug in places such as New York City, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, and Newark. In the land of "no controlling legal authority" that was the Clinton-Gore White House, the end justified any means. Accordingly, on February 15, 1996, Henry Cisneros, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, forwarded a memo from the California Active Citizenship Campaign to President Clinton. I can't make INS head Doris Meissner delegate broad authority to her field managers. One "obsolete regulation" that bit the dust in 1996 was the longstanding (since 1907) requirement that a prospective citizen demonstrate a knowledge of English. A September 1996 hearing by the Congressional Committee on Government Reform and Oversight's National Security Subcommittee on "Naturalization Testing Fraud" documented that the Clinton-Gore administration looked the other way while federal contractors across the nation were fraudulently certifying English-language illiterates as having met citizenship standards. One contractor, the Naturalization Assistance Service (NAS), conducted an estimated 200,000 tests annually. A NAS test was effectively a multiple-choice exam with test takers also asked to write a mere two sentences in English. Yet as ABC's 20/20 reported in 1996, the NAS English test was still too onerous for many of the people who paid to be in a NAS classroom. A concerned NAS employee, Jewell Elghazali, complained that large batches of tests were written in identical handwriting. Just how many more forged tests were transformed into certificates of English competence? Citizenship USA and wholesale voiding of naturalization requirements weren't the only Clinton-Gore efforts to undermine the integrity of the political process. Thanks to another Clinton-Gore program, the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, better known as the Motor Voter law, we may never know how many votes were improperly cast in the 2000 election by ineligible people. Motor Voter was nicknamed "Auto Fraudo" because it created a series of incentives for rampant vote fraud. States were required to give voter-registration applications to anyone who applied for a driver's license or welfare benefits. But these requirements are hardly likely to discourage vote fraud. By 1996, 45 states had complied with Motor Voter requirements. And that is when we started to hear about noncitizens illegally deciding elections. The following year, the Miami mayor's race was overturned, also on the basis of widespread absentee-ballot fraud. Longtime fans of Bill Buckley's writings will no doubt recall him reporting with pardonable pride that his grandfather, John Buckley, had such a strong "sense of civic obligation" that he refused to allow his death in 1904 to prevent him from adding his vote to Lyndon Johnson's 87-vote plurality in the 1948 Senate race. Thanks to Motor Voter, it looks like the problem of dead people voting is no longer confined to South Texas.
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