The Failure to Secure Elections
A software glitch in Michigan has resulted in a handful of instances where voters were temporarily unable to vote for Donald Trump. Right on queue, Michigan Republicans claimed the election was being stolen again. In Georgia, a woman inadvertently voted for Harris and spread wild conspiracies that the machines were stealing votes for Trump. Both examples were immediately isolated and fixed.
While I’m afraid that both sides are laying the groundwork to claim the election was stolen, the media only wants to attack the conspiracy theorists on the right. They ignore that a noncitizen’s vote was cast in Michigan because Democrats forced through same-day voter registration. They ignore the fact that the Colorado Secretary of State literally sent the password for the ENTIRE VOTING SYSTEM to the public. They make hyperbolic claims about Glenn Youngkin in Virginia but ignore that he’s only purging illegal voters from the voter rolls.
Instead of reporting the actual election issues facing this country, the media is simply regurgitating leftwing talking points and wonders why the other half of the country appears so ready to buy the latest conspiracy theory. Watch:
This whole election cycle is enough to drive everyone crazy. With your experience in elections and election law, I think you might be leaning a little hard on Republican efforts to rectify the situation. Since we are still actually litigating issues in Maricopa County about 2020, having to be loud and vocal to get attention in the ‘now’ seems understandable. And having judges, when presented with solid evidence that an unqualified voter actually cast a vote, say essentially “too bad” I think the frustration and hyperbole can be understood. The process needs review by reasonable people, and anything that impedes the perception or reality that things aren’t right needs to be dealt with rationally. Without actual change for the better, the accusations of stealing elections, which go way back before 2000, 2004, 2016 or 2020 will continue.
As a longtime resident of Virginia and a poll watcher for the last few elections I would submit that the problem of non citizens becoming registered was not because they intended on voting, but when they went to get a drivers license (which they can) and marked honestly that they were non citizens our DMV somehow sent their names over to be registered to vote. Youngkin had removed over 6,000 earlier this year. But not to be conspiratorial, when I first registered my car here in Virginia as an active duty soldier at that time and marked to be registered to vote, I found out on Election Day I was not registered and could not vote. This was almost 30 years ago and I reported it to a nascent election integrity organization and they said that I wasn’t the only case of military members who were not being registered through the Motor Voter Act. And since I live in Fairfax County, a heavily Democratic area, one can only suspect malfeasance.