Posted on 02/13/2021 6:11:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s get one thing straight. Even though Sleepy Joe Biden is the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there are a host of serious questions about how the elections – note the plural – were conducted. Pennsylvania changed the election laws without constitutional authority, over the objections of the legislature. Ditto for Georgia. Required voter validation on absentee ballots was not performed. Chains of custody were violated, potentially letting phony ballots get counted, and on, and on. We just can’t have this happen again. But what’s a mother to do?
First, we have to define the word. Fuzzy Leftist equivocation won’t do. We must have a clear definition. Anything else will scramble our efforts.
Election: An accurate counting of the expressed preferences of properly eligible and registered voters. Those preferences must be expressed in a clear, legislatively approved manner and received within a specific time frame. They involve issues in and representation for a single state.
That’s not too hard, is it? Obviously, the egregious maleficence exhibited during the last “election” shows that we must have clear guardrails. The most important guardrail is the fact that all elections involve single states or subdivisions within single states. Even the “Presidential Election” is about electing persons from within a single state who are sworn to represent that state in the actual election of the President.
Let’s get one thing straight. Even though Sleepy Joe Biden is the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there are a host of serious questions about how the elections – note the plural – were conducted. Pennsylvania changed the election laws without constitutional authority, over the objections of the legislature. Ditto for Georgia. Required voter validation on absentee ballots was not performed. Chains of custody were violated, potentially letting phony ballots get counted, and on, and on. We just can’t have this happen again. But what’s a mother to do?
First, we have to define the word. Fuzzy Leftist equivocation won’t do. We must have a clear definition. Anything else will scramble our efforts.
Election: An accurate counting of the expressed preferences of properly eligible and registered voters. Those preferences must be expressed in a clear, legislatively approved manner and received within a specific time frame. They involve issues in and representation for a single state.
That’s not too hard, is it? Obviously, the egregious maleficence exhibited during the last “election” shows that we must have clear guardrails. The most important guardrail is the fact that all elections involve single states or subdivisions within single states. Even the “Presidential Election” is about electing persons from within a single state who are sworn to represent that state in the actual election of the President.
Imagine what this would do. Georgia has about 10.6 million people. There are about 5.6 million registered voters, so every voter would have sent about fifty dollars to a campaign to get to the $250 million-plus that was spent on just the senate runoff. In fact, over ninety percent of that came from outside Georgia. As of November 23, Democrats had raised $114 million to the Republicans’ $56 million, or roughly double. But if they had been limited to contributions from Georgians, the Democrats would have had $4.56 million to the Republicans $4.5 million. Georgians would have had a real voice in the debate over who should represent them. Can you spell “level playing field?” May we have a “We took the money out of elections!” cheer?
Next, it is absolutely essential that every legal vote be counted. This starts with verifying that each “vote” is cast by an eligible, registered voter. There has to be a functionally accurate form of voter identification. It must apply to both in-person and absentee voting. Anything else allows an improper vote to cancel a valid vote, destroying the “one-man-one-vote” rule confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Before any votes are counted, firm calendar limits for voting must be established and honored. The Pennsylvania stunt of counting votes arriving three days late cannot happen again. Any “vote” arriving early or late must be rejected. If a voter cannot be responsible enough to read a calendar, then perhaps they aren’t responsible enough to cast a ballot.
Absentee ballots must first pass through the voter ID process. If there is a dispute regarding the validity of the ID, there must be a fair and effective adjudication process before the ballot moves into the counting process.
All ballots must have a secure chain of custody. Those ballots are evidence in any potential election challenge and must be protected by no less careful security than evidence in a criminal case. And just to make this chain even more secure, every ballot image scanned by a vote-counting machine should be made immediately available to every interested party. This will allow those third parties to create their own count of votes. Such an open system would make shenanigans very easy to see. Of course, we must go one step further and require that no electronic counting machine be able to receive data or instructions from outside during the counting process. Ballots must be preserved and indelible records of them maintained.
No questionable ballot should be adjudicated by an electronic device. If the equipment flags a problem, the ballot must be rejected for examination by election officials and parties for the specific campaigns. Only after they agree, or a referee rules, should the ballot be counted. Of note, cameras and remote monitors can make all these verification steps non-intrusive. The record that they produce will be inarguable.
We should note that every step I’ve proposed is absolutely neutral with regard to who wins an election. Rather, these are essential steps to guarantee election integrity. Detailed language can be worked out by legislators, and it’s possible that one state might create a model language for the rest.
Until we have verifiable election integrity, the losing side in almost any election will likely raise loud claims of a stolen election, famously raised in Bush v. Gore as well as the last two presidential contests. Excluding fat cats from out of state will keep campaigns in the control of the voters who are actually interested in who wins. California has no business telling Georgia who to elect.
All of these reforms are possible within individual states. They present no Constitutional conflicts since they follow Article II, SCOTUS precedent, and the basic principle that Georgia’s business is Georgia’s business.
The dream of election reform is ludicrous so long as the election fraudsters remain alive
They got away with the greatest ever crime ever against the Republic. Until they are all, that is ALL, are dead and gone, reform is a pipe dream
Still waiting for term limits to pass. Election reform will not happen especially with the Rats in charge. IMO
The only thing that will fix election fraud is a Revolution. Not a Civil War. A REAL American Revolution as described in our Declaration of Independence. When the Government becomes oppressive it’s our duty to overthrow the authoritarians. Just waiting for the clarion call.
It’s time for elected GOP officials to grow a pair. The Republican Pennsylvania state legislature should be impeaching those Pennsylvania justices who unconstitutionally changed the election rules.
“It’s Time For Real Election Reform”
It’s over, whistlin’ in the wind! Could not even get vote reform in states with pubbie legislatures. It’s called a banana republic, until we take it back, and we’ll never get it back with the voting system. When folks protested at the capitol on 1-6-21 they were tossed in jail, thanks to our one way judicial system. Solid leadership is needed.
should
Same day every where
In person
No mail in
Paper ballots
Hand count
Voter ID
inked thumb
No accepting ballots after polls close.
Term Limits and Voter ID, that would make a good start...
-Tyrelle F
The problem you are going to have enacting changes like this is Georgia or Arizona or Pennsylvania is that the authorities in all three states have certified their elections to be virtually fraud free. So these kind of changes become more voter suppression than voter reform, and the Democrats will have a field day with that in court.
Here! Here!* Excellent suggestions by the author. Lots of the ideas can be implemented by the state legislature including no out of state contributions to campaigns.
* Or Hear! Hear! Which ever you’d prefer :)
Absolutely! It should be just that simple.
The dream of election reform is ludicrous so long as the election fraudsters remain alive
So true. These are all good but if the numbers can be transferred tona preferred candidate they are worthless.
Also if Dominions algorithm is true it shows that a small group determines who enters the club and the incumbents will not be interested in changing that .
In addition to make these changes is an admission of how fraud was conducted.
Robert’s is the main culprit in allowing this to occur by not stopping Pa upfront
Former Democrat, Independent, and Republican voters all know without a doubt that the Uniparty doesn't need their votes because they can rig an election. Who would donate, volunteer, or vote in a rigged election?
People are simply walking away and will seek other channels outside of government to solve their problems because government IS the problem.
Nope, the time for real election reform was before Bill Clinton signed into law “motor voter”. We’ve been on the accelerated road to perdition ever since. There’s no climbing back up the slippery slope now without what we dare not speak.
Read later.
With prosecutions of the 2020 election, no new rules or laws can ever work.
We need to get out state legislators to reform voter laws. No early voting, no mail in ballots (for the military only). Term limits and no open primaries.
Four years ago we had a chance to correct many of the problems the marxists democrats and the oligarchical deep state have imposed upon the Republic. For decades Republicans have promised to do so. Instead the republican house and senate actively worked to sabotage a President hell bent on honoring his campaign promises and the promises made by the Republicans over decades. There will be on “Election Reform” as we mean it, but there will be election reform.
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