There are many election reform measures currently being considered by state legislatures with loopholes that allow local mayors and county officials to accept private funds to run the election.
We should not codify the corrupting influence of private money into our elections.
The Constitution, state, and federal law do not allow such private interference nor allow the creation of a two-tiered election system favoring one political party over the other.
Passing these half-measures, that are being currently considered by state legislatures, allow exceptions that swallow the rule by allowing local mayors and county officials to accept private funds to run the election.
Such legislation merely codifies and allows this same flow of private funds to continue. Legislatures must ban private funding unless that funding is appropriated by the state legislature consistent with federal law.
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I cannot “just forget” about the Constitution. Nor should you.
Our founders recognized the need for vigorous and aggressive debate as a method of seeking and discovering truth, forcing transparency, and enabling the electorate to hold public servants accountable.
Our founders recognized that each individual has the inherent right of expression. Give a fool a stump to stand on, for we value free speech to the point that we allow fools to reveal themselves.
Government officials should not be arrested for their rhetoric, even if they grossly misrepresent substantive issues.
Criminalizing speech and placing those who criticize the state in prison is the tactic of totalitarians and it is now the tactic of the left.
The AG of Michigan, Dana Nessel, threatened legislators who questioned the election with criminal investigation and prosecution.
Governor Whitmer of MI mobilized the state police to forcibly lock republicans out of the capitol building in Michigan to prevent them from raising concerns about the election while she ordered the police to allow democrats in.
The 2020 election witnessed an unprecedented and coordinated effort through public-private partnerships to improperly and unlawfully influence the election for Mr. Biden.
1. We witnessed a two-tiered election system in which state and local officials targeted Biden constituencies to turn out the vote while targeting Trump constituencies to depress the vote.
2. There was a use of private funds to pay election judges and officials who managed the way ballots were received, accepted, cured, and counted.
Fulton County officials illegally accepted more than $6 million in private grants that imposed
conditions on the conduct of elections without authority from the state legislature.
In addition, state election officials entered into a settlement agreement with the Democratic Party that created rules for processing absentee ballots that directly contradict the legislature’s intent.
Officials also failed to enforce state law residency requirements on voters who changed addresses before the November 3, 2020 election, leading to an estimated 20,000 unlawful ballots being improperly counted.