D.E.I = Department of Election Integrity

Original Content | 11/22/2024 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

This election was remarkably free of fraud, it appears, although those that commit voter fraud certainly tried to set up situations where they could act. However, because of the efforts of Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, those attempts were largely quashed.

For a very long time, over 35 years, Republicans found it hard to challenge increasingly-obvious Democrat voter fraud due to a Consent Decree entered in Federal Court which was created in 1982 due to allegations of 'voter caging'.

However, in 2018, the Consent Decree expired, and Republicans slowly began ramping up efforts to detect and fight voter fraud. This culminated in the very successful legal efforts to stop voter fraud in 2024.

Lara Trump was instrumental in rapidly responding to a variety of attempts to steal the presidential election. As examples, she, with her team of lawyers and with the blessing of RNC Chairman Michael Whatley, stopped an attempt in real time to deny Republican observers to observe the collection of mail-in and absentee ballots in the notoriously felonious Fulton County, Georgia. She and her team also prevented Pennsylvanian counties from counting illegal ballots for a closely-contested Senatorial race.

Her performance was stellar, and may have tipped the balance in many elections. I feel she was so good that she should be made the Czar of an informal government entity that I'd call the Department of Election Integrity -- D.E.I., for short.

I like the name because it gives a gentle mockery to the other definition of D.E.I. (Diversity-Equity-Inclusion), this premise being used to grant employment to people who don't qualify for the role based strictly on their minority racial, gender, or sexual orientation.

If such a quasi-official department is created, there should be several focuses:

1. There should be a push for true voter identification requirements in every state. It should be noted that those states that did not require voter identification, universally cast their electoral votes for Kamala Harris, even if six states that required voter identification also cast their votes for her.
2. Software for voting machines and tabulators should be Open Source, so that skilled developers can inspect it before an election. Open Source is a development paradigm in which the source code to an application is freely available for all.
3. The Open Source software for voting machines and tabulators should have a software 'signature', and that signature should be readily available at each voting machine and each vote tabulator, to ensure that the software version aligns with what Open Source software has been vetted.
4. There should be a hard end-date, universal among the states, for collection of ballots. That date, to my mind, should be midnight on Election Day. We should no longer have to endure two- or three-week delays in the reporting of results.
5. Ballot-Harvesting, the practice of collecting large numbers of ballots by organizations (or by individuals not personally related to a voter) should be strictly illegal.
6. Mail-in ballots should be restricted in use, applicable only in very limited circumstances. When a ballot leaves a voter's hands and enters the mail, it no longer is in a forensically-secure stream and can easily be eliminated or altered.
7. Those organizations who collect and deliver voter registrations should be prosecuted if it is shown that they are 'dumping' a large number of fraudulent registrations, or registrations for non-citizens.

Embracing and realizing these goals will go a long way to truing our election system. We are one of the most technically advanced countries in the world. There is no excuse for the poor way in which we conduct elections.

[quantim]

“the unlimited manipulation time that follows elections is where most of the cheating happens these days.”

EXACTLY! This is where the ‘elected’ officials need to hold the judicial crooks accountable at all levels and the sad part is that accountability could take years to decades.

[Enterprise]

Lara Trump should be Czar of D.E.I. With Lazamataz at her side as Deputy Assistant Czar. It would be a world class force for good to defeat voter fraud!

[CFW]

Create the Dept, put Lara Trump in charge of it, and make sure the department dissolves the day Trump leaves office. If the Democrats are left with such a department it will grow and become the Dept of Election Lack of Integrity (DELI) where it will serve up various ways to steal an election.

[Lazamataz]

Good point.

[duckman]

Looks great, need to put Kari Lake in charge.

[Redleg Duke]

Good idea, Laz.

As far as DIRTYSECRET…he is Free Republic’s Eeyore. No matter what is accomplished, it isn’t enough, won’t make a difference and is hopeless.

Comparing to him, Earthquake McGoon is in danger of sunburn!

[Tobias Grimsley]

Laz - Pam Bondi is going to be the AG for Trump...

Here’s the only question on all of our minds - would you hit it?

[Gaffer]

I like the list. My only real wish right now would be to repeal the 17th Amendment - Direct election of US Senators. But it won’t happen - no Amendments are foreseeably on the horizon I can see.

[caver]

Great post!
I have nothing to add.

[FreedomPoster]

Michael Whatley, not Lara Trump. My understanding is that he was more involved in the election integrity efforts, Lara was more on the GOTV side.

[Carry_Okie]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127820/posts?page=14#14

[Openurmind]

Excellent again! We need that more than we need the FBI.

[stateofit]

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/08/key-facts-about-the-quality-of-the-2020-census/#:~:text=The%20Census%20Bureau‘s%20own%20research,%2C%20Mississippi%2C%20Tennessee%20and%20Texas.

Definitely New York should have lost 1 House Seat / Electoral College vote, at the cost of Florida. Likely another blue goes to Texas from Minnesota.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Great read!
When does the Dominion guy go to prison?

[MV=PY]

Good stuff! But IMHO,

1. Paper ballots (you can always recount them)

2. The digital “Signature” for open source ballot scanning software should be derived from the code itself in real time, like a check digit. It’s the only way to tell if the code’s been altered. (Maybe that’s what you meant.)

[BOBWADE]

Along the same lines...
Transparency! All polling places and election workers should be live-streamed to the public. No closed doors. No secret back room dicovery of new ballots. Everything should be subject to open view by everyone. Integrity is the goal.

[generally]

You wrote in the first line: “This election was remarkably free of fraud...”

I respectfully and strongly disagree. (even with your qualifiers like “it appears”).

JMO:
1. There was massive fraud.
2. It’s going to be exposed.
3. Just because our favored candidate won, does NOT mean the other side didn’t cheat. It just means that their cheating was insufficient to beat our candidate.
3.a. They will continue with post-election cheating to try to prevent certification.
3.b. They will continue with post-election cheating to try to prevent inauguration.
3.c. They will continue with post-election cheating to thwart Trump at every turn. (impeachment, failure to confirm nominees, lawfare, ....)
3.d. They will fail. Trump will win.
4. The Deep State steals elections. For both sides. Once in a while they don’t or they fail to steal. When this happens they gleefully point to the results to con the sheeple into thinking “Wow! *MY* candidate won. I guess there isn’t any fraud.” DO NOT FALL FOR THIS.

[Lazamataz]

Yeah you may well be right.

I was encouraged, however, to see the RNC jumping on any fraud they detected.

[Lazamataz]

2. The digital “Signature” for open source ballot scanning software should be derived from the code itself in real time, like a check digit. It’s the only way to tell if the code’s been altered. (Maybe that’s what you meant.)

That's exactly what I meant.

[A Navy Vet]

There is no way Congress is going to create a Department to oversee their corruption and other crap. It would be like them agreeing to Term Limits that would cancel out their jobs. It will not happen.

Plus as you know, States create their own election rules (fair or cheating) and is not a Federal matter, unless they break their own State rules as in Bush vs Gore back when. Then the USSC can intervene as it did.

As much as I am encourage with the Elon/Vivek DOGE, I'm not crazy about the "Department" title. It will cause confusion for many folks. I'm also not crazy about your "Department of Election Integrity" (DEI) for the same reason.

I would rather both be named "Bureau" or "Commission" or "Council" or other. And yes, I think Lara Trump should be the Czar, unless President Trump has specific plans for her.

Thank you Laz, for all your work of late. You've put a lot of thought and time into your efforts. Just glad you don't still want to bonk my wife. Har