The last two Governors of N.Y. State as well as the last two Mayors of its major city have been Democrats. The maintenance of the integrity of the voting protocols within those domains is therefore clearly a reflection of that party’s level of respect for the integrity of the Rule of Law and Democracy itself.
Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch, a “conservative” agency given to launching suits in defense of the Rule of Law, recently charged the State of N.Y. with a failure to remove potentially hundreds of thousands of ineligible voters from its voting lists. U.S. federal law requires such lists be purged of those that have either died or changed locations in advance of any election. Astoundingly, the city of N.Y., population 5.5 million, admitted that only 22 people had been removed from its lists over a six year period! Gee, is it possible that in regions traditionally dominated by the Democrats, the latter actually prefer electoral corruption as a means of assuring their victory?
Judicial Watch also challenged Maryland’s plan to reconfigure its voting districts in a way clearly designed to benefit the Democratic Party. This stratagem is known as “gerrymandering.” While the state’s governor is a Republican, its legislature is dominated by the Democrats. In March of this year, Judge Lynne Battaglia, herself a Democrat, ruled the proposed changes unconstitutional and an obvious example of partisan corruption. Much to Fitton’s delight, the same conclusion was reached in April by New York’s highest court which ruled a similar attempt at gerrymandering in that state illegal!
H.R.1, euphemistically known as the “For the People Act,” was introduced to the House of Representatives by the Democrats in early 2019 well before Covid could be used as an excuse for such legislation. It has thus far been quashed by the Republicans. Its stated intent was to expand voters’ rights, to eliminate the horrid inconveniences of traveling to a polling station and waiting in line, by making absentee voting available to all. Paradoxically, it also purported to be concerned with enhancing voting integrity. Yet study after study as well as simple common sense suggest absentee voting to be an open invitation to fraud.
In June, Delaware’s Democrats passed a bill giving all registered voters the right to cast their ballots by mail while offering no excuse whatsoever for doing so. Signed into law by Governor Carney in July, it was recently [Sept. 14] ruled unconstitutional by Judge Nathan Cook of the state’s supreme court. Ironically, Cook’s appointment to that body was vigorously protested by “social justice” warriors such as Al Sharpton because he is just another White Male. I say ironic because those same “warriors” use Racism as the basis for condemning all Republican efforts to limit mail-in voting, their argument being that those efforts are specifically targeted at poor, Black voters. It is an accusation which reeks of the bigotry of low expectations, the assumption that such voters are in fact too lazy or irresponsible to go to the nearest polling station to perform one of the few obligations their citizenship demands of them. It is a narrative rife with political bias, those who endorse it being fairly certain most poor Blacks are likely to vote Democrat. But what ought to be the main priority of all Americans, the triumph of their point of view, however deviously achieved, or the integrity of the Democratic process itself?
Based in Indianapolis, the Public Interest Legal Foundation [PILF] declares itself to be a “law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity.” In August it announced that nearly 15 million mail-in-ballots had gone unaccounted for in the 2020 election. The problem, it seems, is that several states, in response to the threat of Covid, had approved that protocol while in no way prepared to deal with it. PILF quite naturally finds the “For the People Act” an unnecessary piece of legislation that must inevitably further jeopardize public faith in America’s democracy.
The brazenly biased electoral protocols pursued by Democrats do not necessarily mean that Trump’s assertion the Presidency was stolen from him is legitimate. But they do suggest the constant derision of that claim as The Big Lie, a phrase invoked daily in the mainstream press, is itself worthy of absolute contempt to any person of simple common sense.
It must drive Democrats crazy that a 2005 Commission on Federal Election Reform chaired by their own Jimmy Carter concluded unequivocally that “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That they persist in playing the Race Card in denouncing all Republican efforts at electoral reform is just another indication of the psychotic self-righteousness that has come to dominate the contemporary Left.