Monday, March 29, 2021

Election Integrity and Its Discontents

Public opinion surveys consistently show that a majority of the electorate favors robust election integrity laws.

The Democrats and the news media insist that efforts by GOP state legislatures to bolster election integrity statutes amount to a sinister conspiracy to suppress the minority vote.

President Biden was by no means the only Democrat to invoke Jim Crow in a denunciation of Georgia's election integrity law.

The crowning achievement of the American Civil Rights movement was a federal election law It shouldn't matter if a state wants to do it if it's so, so wrong.

The Brennan Center list of those other states will reveal that election integrity measures are being pondered in such notorious bulwarks of Jim Crow as Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah.

It's tough to sell election integrity as a "Jim Crow thing" if most of the states mulling it are located above the Mason-Dixon Line.

If health-care reform is still being litigated after 10 years, how many decades will democracy reform take to be resolved? The country would be much better off if Washington Democrats could be content with the powers delegated to the federal government by the Constitution and stop meddling with those that are clearly reserved to the states - including election integrity reform.
 

https://spectator.org/election-integrity-democrats/ 

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