Election integrity is an issue of outsized importance to securing the future prospects of the country.
Right alongside national security, election integrity ought to be perceived as an extension of national security, for who controls our election procedures controls our government.
In a highly globalized world, where the speed of travel and communications is faster than ever, the world is much smaller than ever before.
While this intimacy furnishes opportunities for economic growth, it also makes America more susceptible to foreign threats like never before.
Of particular concern is sovereignty. In recent decades, our government has had a disastrous run at controlling our borders and making sure that dangerous criminals and violent drug traffickers are kept out.
Even our system for vetting legal immigration has been under siege, an ersatz and slipshod process, reified in the H-1B program, which is putatively designed to select new entrants on the basis of merit and skillset, has broken down, as major companies exploit lax legal loopholes and buy political influence to cook the books in their favor.
The ripple effects of these policies – an open border coupled with a schizophrenic vetting system for new migrants, have been massive – cascading beyond the mere economic, extending to overloading mass transit systems, public education and healthcare, and transforming the core of American identity along the way.
In a country that once universally understood the basic requirements for participation in the social covenant included proficiency in the English language and adherence to the rule of law, that has been lost especially in recent years by the influx of new arrivals.
Of all the problems our unchecked immigration system has unleashed, the greatest perhaps is the effect these newcomers have had on election systems.
The election infrastructure currently in place, which has traditionally operated in a decentralized manner, where states largely dictate procedures, lacks the bandwidth to manage this amount of people.
Non-citizens were never supposed to be included on voter rolls, nor of course participate in elections – that was a privilege expressly reserved to American citizens only.
Indeed, one of the hallmarks, and leading incentives, to becoming naturalized historically was the opening of the franchise.
That privilege, alas, has been tarnished by an ever-loudening cadre of leftist voices who no longer believe citizenship should be a requirement to vote.
This, of course, raises a fundamental question: if citizenship should no longer be a prerequisite for voting, then should anyone be denied access to America’s elections?
The logic used by Democrats compels answering in the negative: the only limiting factor it seems that they might accept is the number of trees needed to be chopped down to turn into paper to be made into absentee ballots to send out to every person on Earth, who has a constitutional right to vote in our elections.
That may seem absurd on its face, but no Democratic politician has been able to articulate a limiting principle for regulating voters.
And this is not merely a theoretical exercise: in blue states, or even red or purple states controlled by a Democratic governor, like Pennsylvania for instance, they have been intentionally withholding voter roll information from the public.
It has been notoriously difficult to conduct an exhaustive evaluation of Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona’s voter rolls because this data has been kept under lock and key by Democratic politicians who have every incentive in the world to keep subversive practices in place, for reliance on those practices is their only meaningful pathway to victory.
President Trump’s Justice Department is in the process of investigating voter rolls in over a dozen states.
So far, they have already unearthed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of ineligible participants on those rolls.
That list includes multiple residences, deceased people, and, of course, non-citizens.
In certain states, there is a strong deterrent to disclosure, because states and election officials increasingly receive threats by far left organizations, such as Mark Elias’ legal group, which is backed by dark money, that cooperative states will be sued for doing so.
This was the recent finding of Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
Dhillon was recently asked in an interview about ongoing investigations into voter rolls and procedures nationwide.
The challenge is one of information and data collection: it involves an arduous legal process to obtain subpoenas to get access to data, which becomes even more difficult when dealing with recalcitrant parties, such as unwilling judges, prosecutors, and state attorneys general, who have enabled the fraud to persist.
While these DOJ-led investigations are absolutely necessary and should continue, the real solution will likely require federal intervention, in the form of legislation, to enact the kind of change that will be meaningful and long-lasting.
President Trump’s proposed Save America Act, which has a backing of the majority of Congress reflects a bipartisan consensus among the American people: there is a widespread sentiment that our elections are rigged and legislation is needed to shore up those systems.
The Act is designed to accomplish that by nationalizing Voter ID requirements, as well as making proof of citizenship a necessary prerequisite to vote.
Beyond that, all the procedures enacted under COVID to meddle with election procedures, especially the abuse of absentee ballots, have been dramatically reduced under the proposed law.
This will help rollback many of the egregious reforms made over the 2020s, which observed longstanding election rules be radically overhauled in the name of safety, which paved the way for Biden’s “victory” in 2020.
The Biden regime underscores just how important credible elections are to legitimate government. The Biden debacle could have been avoided altogether if we had implemented common sense election integrity measures decades ago.
These reforms were not enacted intentionally, because it allowed the powers that be to install their choice of candidate and spoil the democratic accountability mechanism in our constitutional design.
Free and fair elections are essential to keeping our government accountable; for without it Washington, DC will march to the beat of its own drum, unmoored by the will of the People, on which our representative democracy is based.
Hence, the urgency for election integrity and ergo the opportunity presented with the Save America Act, maybe our last chance to reform and fortify our election system to ensure integrity in the process, and that the United States may continue to advance an agenda that truly improves the lives of normal Americans, as the Constitution obliges and as our Founding Fathers intended.
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