Posted on 08/27/2024 4:24:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
How can we trust elections if everything underneath them is suspect?
Questions about the newly rebalancing weight of bureaucratic privilege loom large. The overturning of mandatory judicial deference to experts, with the SCOTUS Loper Bright decision, regarding the interpretation and application of congressional legislative intent, opens a wide realm of possibilities for reasserting the primacy of civil liberties over what amounts to unaccountable opinions by support staff — and political ones at that. Nowhere is this change as instantly significant as inside our election bureaus preparing for the 2024 general election.
Election officials have a challenging task. They have an equal responsibility to make sure every eligible citizen has the opportunity to vote, while simultaneously preventing any ineligible or fictitious voters from diluting those precious rightful ballots. There’s not some magic equation that resolves this conundrum perfectly. Therefore, election administrators have long held authority to excuse or justify questionable registration practices on the basis of weighting denial of the vote as the more important harm to prevent, despite SCOTUS having ruled in Reynolds v Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964) that denial and dilution of the vote are equal harms.
As an example of administrative deference in voter list management, observe the humble “default” date. In a time before time, when there was no such thing as an anonymous voter because people lived together in towns and congregated in schoolhouses, churches, Conestoga wagons, and publick houses, and were therefore known to one another, birthdates and registration dates may not have been required by the local clerk. Therefore, we can reasonably expect that some registration records will lack accurate date information. Although it is a requirement to be 18 years of age, and a requirement to be registered to vote before voting, and voter rolls are required by Congress to be accurate
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The left has become accepting of election fraud as long as it benefits them. Just another indicator of the moral decay of marxism.
We all know the media will continue to lie to protect Democrats. The Democrats will pay them back with Political Ads. That is big revenue for the media.
The only fix is to newcomb
BTTT
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