It’s election season in America, and meaning early voting, absentee ballots, and ensuring your voter registration is present.
It’s additionally a take a look at of how effectively every state maintains its voter rolls, its election techniques, and the methods every state assures its elections are carried out and counted pretty.
A brand new report from the Authorities Accountability Institute (GAI) counts not less than fifty threats to election integrity. The report, simply out this week, categorizes fifty completely different threats to election integrity in accordance with whether or not they concern the affect of “darkish cash,” lawfare operations, voter fraud, or election fraud. The report paperwork examples of every and gives potential options.
On the latest episode of The Drill Down, Peter Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers deal with the numerous methods elections will be rigged and, extra importantly, methods to be sure that it doesn’t occur.
Many states have been conscientious about cleansing their voter rolls — eradicating deceased voters, voters who’ve left the state, voters who are usually not U.S. residents however who have been registered by means of their driver’s license functions, and so forth.
States reminiscent of Michigan, nevertheless, haven’t been so fastidious, because the GAI report and the Drill Down hosts clarify. “We all the time speak about this as a result of this continues to be an issue in [battleground] states which might be poised to matter,” says co-host Eric Eggers. “In Michigan, we’re seeing the variety of counties with voter registration charges over 100%.”
Eggers wrote a e book in 2018 known as FRAUD that detailed lots of the various kinds of election rigging and fixing which have taken place in U.S. historical past. That e book, nevertheless, was revealed two years earlier than the 2020 COVID pandemic, and rule adjustments made by some states that have been ostensibly to make voting safer throughout the pandemic had the impact of constructing election safety a lot more durable to make sure. GAI’s report covers how these rule adjustments, which many states have since been repealed or changed, could have affected the 2020 consequence and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election.
“We’re now seeing 53 counties in Michigan with greater than 100% registration, which clearly means there are some names on there that don’t belong there,” Eggers says. He notes this isn’t all the time the fault of native or state election officers. Technically, it’s the voter’s duty to name up their earlier state’s registrar and ask to be faraway from their voter rolls. “The e book I wrote in 2018 happened due to a report [GAI] did that centered on duplication in voter rolls. We discovered greater than two thousand situations of double voting in 2016 in Florida alone.” That report from 2017 is offered on GAI’s web site here.
GAI’s new report explains how these rule adjustments, which in lots of states have since been repealed or changed, could have affected the 2020 consequence and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. The report divides the dangers to our elections into 5 classes:
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