Ignoring Georgia Illegal Voting Proves Democrats Don’t Care About Election Integrity At All

A voter holds a right both "To cast his or her vote, and the corresponding right of each of those legally registered voters to be protected from having that vote diluted by illegally or fraudulently cast votes." But in Georgia it now appears near-certain that tens of thousands of residents voted illegally in the 2020 general election.

The issue at stake is that such a vote is illegal! The right to vote can be denied by dilution of a vote just as effectively as the outright prohibition of the free exercise of the franchise.

As the Supreme Court has stressed, "It should go without saying that a State may take action to prevent election fraud without waiting for it to occur and be detected within its own borders." But the more fundamental problem rests on the specious focus on "Widespread fraud." That framing of the issue is pure misdirection: Every instance of voter fraud disenfranchises a legal voter and thus voting fraud need not be "Widespread" to violate the fundamental constitutional right to vote-"a sacred right of the highest character." Reducing Fraud Is Never About Reducing Real Voting Contrast that reality with claims that states' time, place, and manner regulations of voting disenfranchise voters.

As the appellate court in Crawford highlighted, Indiana's voter identification "law is not like a poll tax, where on one side is the right to vote and on the other side the state's interest in defraying the cost of elections or in limiting the franchise to people who really care about voting or in excluding poor people or in discouraging people who are black.

" In contrast, "the purpose of the Indiana law is to reduce voting fraud, and voting fraud impairs the right of legitimate voters to vote by diluting their votes-dilution being recognized to be an impairment of the right to vote.

" Yet the left has successfully excluded from the debate consideration of those disenfranchised by fraudulent votes while framing "the usual burdens of voting" as attacks on the right to vote.

There's a sure-fire way to prove the left doesn't care about disenfranchisement: Ask them about the mounting evidence of tens of thousands of illegal votes cast in Georgia in the 2020 general election, because while widespread voter fraud may be difficult to prove, establishing extensive illegal voting is not.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/12/ignoring-georgia-illegal-voting-proves-democrats-dont-care-about-election-integrity-at-all/