Our Elections Are Not OK

The Commission on Federal Election Reform, headed by Jimmy Carter and James Baker, concluded in 2005, mass absentee ballots invite voter fraud.

The main problems are ridiculously extended voting periods, mass absentee ballots, lack of voter ID, flimsy signature verification, unsecured drop boxes, voting machines with opaque software and connectivity to the internet, and sloppy, inaccurate voter rolls.

It boggles the mind that in 2024, in the United States of America, we are still counting votes days and even weeks after the election in Arizona and several other states.

We wouldn’t accept any of these third-world standards in our personal banking or accounting practices – why are we OK applying them to our precious votes? Under our Constitution, we entrust election administration to the states.

The incoming Trump administration must make election integrity a top priority through federal legislation or persuading states to pass reforms.

We saw it in 2020 when approximately 40,000 votes in key states tipped the election, and not so much in 2024.

Some, like Florida, run a tight, efficient ship, counting all votes on Election Day in a few hours and posting ballot movement online in real-time.

Standards such as voter ID, accurate and transparent voter rolls, and shortened voting periods should be emphasized publicly and perhaps incentivized by the federal government.

There are constitutional issues at play here, but there are countervailing constitutional issues when blue states affect federal elections by relaxing their standards to enable cheating.

Part of the reason there were fewer voting irregularities in 2024 compared to 2020 is that our organization and others dispatched tens of thousands of lawyers and volunteers to keep an eye on things. 

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/11/16/our_elections_are_not_ok_151960.html