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The Heritage Foundation Election Integrity Scorecard: Assessing the Status of State Laws Needed for Election Fairness and Security
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 09/21/2026

Posted on 09/21/2026 10:31:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Every citizen's vote is sacred. The vote is how we guarantee that our government remains of the people, by the people, and for the people. Americans need and deserve elections that they can trust and have confidence in the final results. Legitimate voters should be able to vote in privacy without being harassed, secure in the knowledge that their vote will not be lost, stolen, altered, or negated by a vote cast by an illegitimate voter. Americans need and deserve a secure and transparent system in which fraud can be easily detected, and where false allegations can be dispelled. Election laws should be strongly enforced by state authorities to deter election crimes or fraudulent activity. Americans need and deserve a system in which it is easy to vote and hard to cheat.

In order to help voters, state legislators, election officials, and all Americans who are interested in ensuring a fair and secure election process, The Heritage Foundation has published this Election Integrity Scorecard, which compares the election laws and regulations of each state and the District of Columbia that affect the security and integrity of the process to the Foundation's best-practices recommendations.

As a reminder, however, even the best laws are not worth much if responsible officials do not enforce them rigorously. It is up to the citizens of each state to make sure that their elected and appointed public officials do just that.

Click on This link for the details of each state.


Note: Updated September 8, 2026. The scorecard was first published Dec. 14, 2021, assessing all state election laws as written as of the original publication date. In September 2026, the Heritage Foundation increased state scores for implementation of proof of citizenship in registration and related list maintenance legislation, and adoption of the bans on foreign funding of state ballot measures. The scorecard continues to be regularly updated as states make reforms and changes to those laws.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; integrity

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1 posted on 09/21/2026 10:31:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
A similar article specific to Alabama is at 1819 News. The article is about a localized fraud that people are being punished for. But in that article is a mention about this Heritage report and what the state is doing to reduce future fraud.
2 posted on 09/21/2026 10:34:38 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m so disappointed to see Idaho scored in the middle of the pack. I thought we were doing better than that. I just sent a personal email inquiry to the Idaho Secretary of State asking why we are doing so poorly on election integrity.


3 posted on 09/21/2026 11:01:14 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SeekAndFind

Virginia now under democrat control should be the brightest red on the map.


4 posted on 09/21/2026 11:07:49 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: SeekAndFind

“...negated by a vote cast by an illegitimate voter.” This was the basis of Texas’s protest of the open 2020 election fraud. Several states filed briefs with SCOTUS, some stating that Elector selection laws in some states violated the US Const.

Then, the coward Roberts refused to hear any one of these cases — ‘cause he was afraid of demonstrations.

So long as mailin ballots are allowed anywhere there can be no honest election. Not “fair”, honest.


5 posted on 09/21/2026 11:30:47 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is the driver (club) in the cart a left-handlers?
There are pictures of Harp wearing a wristwatch on her left arm.

That driver and the glove on Harp”’s right hand suggest that the AI forger inserted the Harp image in reverse.
Obviously, the fraudster was not a golfer.
And where can you buy six-finger golf gloves. I searched all over and could not find a single polydactyl glove maker.


6 posted on 09/21/2026 11:41:03 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: oldbill

OOOps!!
Wrong thread! Too many windows open.


7 posted on 09/21/2026 11:51:41 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: SeekAndFind

all this was known years ago and not a damn thing has been done about it.


8 posted on 09/21/2026 12:01:05 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: SeekAndFind

I sure as hell wouldn’t rank Arizona so highly with the machinations within Maricopa County.


9 posted on 09/21/2026 12:08:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Stupidity is an acquired trait, requiring many years of careful practice)
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To: SeekAndFind

I sure as hell wouldn’t rank Arizona so highly with the machinations within Maricopa County.


10 posted on 09/21/2026 12:08:56 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (Stupidity is an acquired trait, requiring many years of careful practice)
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To: SeekAndFind

How did Texas do so bad?


11 posted on 09/21/2026 12:44:31 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: Tell It Right

“Election Integrity” applies to ALL elections, local, state, federal.

The local elections always have the most vote fraud in my experience. This is because the total vote count is small in a local election. That means a small number of fraudulent votes can decide the outcome.

It is very difficult to prove vote fraud sufficient to change the outcome in a large election. Example. GA has MILLIONS of voters. 2020 was decided by 11,500 votes.

3,000 of the 11,500 were proven vote fraud. There has been only small anecdotal proof of the rest. Nobody who understood what was needed for proof was willing to put in the hard, thankless time to prove the other 8,500.

But much time in GA was spent on possibilities and probabilities and leads that were not proof.


12 posted on 09/21/2026 12:56:49 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: SeekAndFind

I knew Georgian would rank near the top.


13 posted on 09/21/2026 2:30:58 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

One of Idaho’s issues is absentee ballots, which are more freely distributed than they should be. In my position as a Representative in the legislature, I have tried (unsuccessfully) to enact reforms. Our secretary of State is against it, and the county clerks are more I favor of absentee ballots because it’s easier for them to count paper than to have the polls and workers.


14 posted on 09/21/2026 5:16:56 PM PDT by JoeA (JoeA (This election determines the fate of our Constitutional Republic)
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