Posted on 11/03/2022 5:08:10 PM PDT by bitt
Republicans are taking a more proactive approach to election integrity in 2022.
Learning from their slow reaction to sweeping late rule changes in the 2020 presidential election, Republicans are being more proactive in their efforts to secure elections in 2022.
In keeping with this new approach, House Republicans led by Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), the ranking member of the House Administration Committee, have peppered state and local officials with letters ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections demanding redress of prior failures and preventive measures to preempt problems on Election Day.
Hogan Gidley, the vice chair of the Center for Election Integrity at America First Policy Institute, told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Wednesday that anticipating election irregularities and addressing them before they occur is the key to safeguarding election integrity.
"Once that ballot goes to the machine, it's over," Gidley said. "You can't put that toothpaste back in the tube ... you can't put the ballot back in the envelope and try and interpret what someone was thinking when they voted."
By contrast, when the absentee and mail-in ballot process is examined ahead of time and courts define what constitutes a provisional ballot prior to an election, it allows for legal battles over provisional ballots to be waged following an election.
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The Communists are going all in on this one. It will take more than a sharply worded letter to deter them.
It’s funny that no lawyers brought any evidence to any of the court challenges they filed in 2020. I guess that as long as they’re not under oath, people are willing to lie like hell, but once there’s a perjury risk, they clam up.
Talk is cheap. I am sick of hearing about it. Git ‘er done.
The list could use not just a “dirty dozen” but another “dirty gross” and more of election cheats.
The dirty one should be the already proven mules.
It’s about time!
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