There have been innumerable debates about mail-in voting in the U.S. Election experts have no doubt that mail-in voting is wide open to fraud. It doesn’t take rocket science to understand how many windows of opportunity there are to manipulate an election using mail-in ballots.
One way to reduce the need for such a suspect voting option is to allow more in-person voting opportunities. However, some don’t like early in-person any more than they believe in the mail-in option.
As for mail-in voting, there are hundreds of reported instances where dead people have been mailed ballots. That certainly exposes an obvious opportunity. Therefore, election integrity supporters push hard to force state election boards to clean up their voter registration rolls.
Mailing ballots to illegitimate voters is just one issue. Thousands of hours of video surveillance showed Democrat operatives illegally stuffing ballots into drop boxes. No one knows if the ballots were authentic or altered. Again, in-person voting, with ID required, is a solution.
Common sense says that widespread use of ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting needs to be illegal. The penalties for violating this aspect of election law must be harsh. However, this type of cheating is rarely investigated, let alone prosecuted.
Cleaning up voter rolls, making ballot harvesting illegal across the country, and limiting the location and number of drop boxes is critical. But there are other ways to cheat, and Democrats are exploiting every one of them. They’re circumventing the rules for early in-person voting.
There is ardent support for a “single-day” to vote. Many believe opportunities to cheat during elections would be dramatically reduced if the U.S. went back to a single “Election Day.” Americans would vote on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November, or not vote.
In 1845, Congress passed a very specific law. Prior to that, states were permitted to hold elections at any time within a 34-day period, as long as they were completed before the first Wednesday in December. Congress saw a problem with this policy.
People could learn the early voting results. This information could be used to affect turnout and sway opinion. The strategy could be used in states that held late elections. Under the old law, last-minute voters could manipulate the outcome of an election.
Congress made voting legal on one day and one day only. But in recent years, the laws have been changed. In essence, the U.S. reverted to early voting policies used during its first half-century of existence. Each state could open up polls under new regulations.
However, unlike the old laws, voting polls could not remain open after the designated Tuesday in November. That’s where we are today. Texas was the first state to reopen early voting in the late 1980s. Virtually every state eventually followed suit.
Only seven U.S. states do not allow early voting. Since early voting regulations follow the same guidelines as election day voting, it might seem like the opportunity to cheat is minimal. But that’s not true. The same theory that Congress applied in 1845 is happening today.
But many still adamantly support a single “Election Day” in the U.S. In many minds, that’s unrealistic. A column written for The Gateway Pundit chastised Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel for pushing Republicans to vote early.
Talking with Steve Bannon on Bannon’s WarRoom show, McDaniel said, “I would ask that people early vote in person. Vote as soon as you can.” The Gateway Pundit story seemed to feel this opened the window for fraud.
In a sense, they’re right. But the RNC chair is correct as well. Laws need to be rigid against “any person or organization” having access to “any early voting data.” Nothing should be available. There should be no reporting of how many votes were cast.
No one should be allowed to divulge which party the voters identified with and especially which candidate or candidates they cast a ballot for. The tabulations and data for early voting, no matter how long the in-person polls are open, must be held in confidence. But that’s not what’s happening…
Take a look at this:
Taking a quick peak at #AZ01, Ds and Rs are even on total ballot return (+700 D). Compared to 2018 turnout is down 3%. Dems are ahead on turnout by 2% and GOP is behind by 8.5%. Indys are down 2% in turnout.
2018 data is correct for the new district. I did some analytics*. pic.twitter.com/UCAJ9KhfNm
— Sam Almy (@sfalmy) October 27, 2022
How would they have gotten this information?
Early in-person voting gives Americans more opportunities to vote. Early voting is a practical option if each state and each political organization abides by the law. Having a window of opportunity to vote early and in-person reduces the need for suspect mail-in ballots.
It gives Americans a chance to vote who might otherwise have issues. In addition, it reduces long lines on Election Day. However, no one should be privy to any ongoing election results until “every single poll closes” on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Early voting results must be held in secret. No vote totals, no demographic data, nothing! There can be no expectations, period! Otherwise, the ability to manipulate an election is too prevalent. Of course, crooked Democrats jump at every chance to cheat. Otherwise, they’d have zero chance of winning.