Democrats and their media scribes
have spent more than three years glued to the narrative that President Donald
Trump stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton by colluding with
Russia to rig the outcome. But they don’t care about the legitimacy of
elections. If they did, they wouldn’t be agitating for voting by mail this
fall.
“House Democrats have sought to
drastically overhaul the American electoral system in light of the pandemic,
arguing dramatic change is needed to allow Americans to vote safely,” Politico
reported last week.
It seems they have the public on
their side. A recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found nearly 60% of voters
“either strongly or somewhat support a federal law that would mandate that
states ‘provide mail-in ballots to all voters for elections occurring during
the coronavirus pandemic.’”
What they don’t have, though, is a
good argument to defend their proposal for turning an entire election, or
nearly all of one, into a contest of absentee ballots.
Few elections, even in the U.S.,
are ever perfectly clean. But the potential for a dirty election sharply
increases when ballots are scattered in the wind.
“Absentee ballots are the tools of
choice of election fraudsters because they are voted outside the supervision of
election officials, making it easier to steal, forge, or alter them, as well as
to intimidate voters,” says Hans
A. von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation.
The full editorial is here. And the integrity of Ohio’s
elections is now at risk. See prior CTP blogs here and here.
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