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Election Integrity 2024: Wins and More Battles Ahead

Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2024
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Following the relatively few election issues that occurred on Election Day, the election integrity movement has celebrated its wins and continues to look ahead to securing the nation’s future elections.

While the Republican National Committee and its allies monitored polls on Election Day and are still watching ballot counting in places like Arizona, election integrity groups are reviewing the relative success of election security and focusing on ensuring that election policies are implemented by Republican majorities starting next year.

“We still have a lot of work to do”

After election integrity wins for state ballot measures, and with a Republican president in the White House next year, a Senate with a Republican majority, and most likely a Republican-led House of Representatives, election integrity advocates are optimistic about the future of election security.

On Election Day, Election Integrity Network Founder Cleta Mitchell posted on X that she was looking forward to the work that the election integrity movement still has to do.

“The next chapter of election integrity after this election will be a greater push for changes in state AND federal law to close loopholes and strengthen accountability and transparency,” Mitchell wrote.

“We still have a lot of work to do to permanently protect against noncitizen voting, to clean the voter rolls in every state, to require authentic post-election audits, to ensure there is reconciliation to make sure every vote is tied to an actual ballot and that the number of voters, ballots, and votes match – and a ton of work to do on transparency of elections. We have much yet to do to restore fair elections in many states – where convoluted voting systems imposed by the left are repealed. Every state must have a level playing field for all candidates and parties. Work to do, people!! Lots of it!”

Meanwhile, the RNC is still working in various states to ensure the security of ballot counting.

“For anyone wondering, none of our EI staff in any state has been released,” RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump posted on X on Friday. “The [GOP] worked closely with the the [sic] NRCC all cycle to build our historic Election Integrity program and we’re still working with them to make sure [Donald Trump] has a majority to work with in the House.”

“Our teams are still on the ground in CA, AZ and OH working with campaigns and state parties to see these races through until end. WE’RE STILL WATCHING”

RNC Chairman Michael Whatley posted on X on Saturday about an election integrity “operational update.” “The RNC, our state parties and legal teams remain fully engaged in every state where votes are still being counted — including Arizona, Maine, Nevada and Pennsylvania,” Whatley wrote.

“We will continue to aggressively protect the vote and defend every Republican candidate throughout vote counting, canvassing, and tabulation. We will be on the ground until all votes are counted and finalized. Protect the Vote!” he continued.

“We have attorneys and volunteers on the ground working with California Republicans to protect our candidates in each of the Congressional races where votes are still being counted. Our program was built to deploy ahead of the vote, during the vote, and after the vote.”

As the RNC focuses on the remaining races, Honest Elections Project Executive Director Jason Snead told Just the News on Thursday how election integrity ballot measures won across the country, resulting in a “complete and utter rout” of left-wing election policies.

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) has largely been defeated in state ballot measures. There were ballot measures in nine states and Washington, D.C., most of which aimed to implement the election system.

RCV is an election process whereby if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, then a runoff system is required. When voters cast their ballots, they rank each candidate in order of first-to-last.

Missouri is the only state that had a ballot measure to prohibit RCV. The measure also included a requirement that only U.S. citizens vote in the state’s elections. The ballot measure was passed, according to NBC News. Missouri is the 11th state to ban RCV.

Alaska is one of two states that has RCV statewide and is the only state with a ballot measure to repeal the election system. The results of the ballot measure are close, but it may pass, if the final vote tabulation follows the trend of “yes” votes leading the “no” votes.

Of the ballot measures to implement RCV statewide and in the nation’s capital, the only one that has passed is Washington, D.C.’s.

There were also eight states with constitutional amendments to prevent non-citizens from voting in state elections. The state were Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The ballot measures have been projected to pass, according to NBC News. The percentage of votes for passage of the ballot measures ranged from 62.5% in Kentucky to 85.8% in South Carolina before all the ballots have been counted.

Regarding election night itself, Snead said that, overall, the election went “much more smoothly than it did in 2020.” In some cases, it was because states like Georgia had enacted election integrity laws to better secure their elections.

 The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act

“There were fewer problems across the board this year,” he added. Even in states like Michigan, where “election laws went 180 degrees in the wrong direction,” the election “went more smoothly” without COVID-19 election rules, “last-minute litigation rewriting rules all over the place,” and “mass auto-mailing of ballots,” Snead said.

The fact that it was “not a close election also helped,” he noted.

Looking ahead to next year, while Snead warned against using federal power to implement election integrity measures that should be enacted at the state level, he noted that there are some election issues that Congress can tackle.

Passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) to make states require documentation of a person’s citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections, is within Congress’ purview, he said.

The NVRA has “become a straightjacket on voter list maintenance,” Snead said, as “technology has changed a lot” in the 30 years since the enactment of the law, giving states more tools to maintain voter rolls.

On the state level, there is still a lot of election integrity work to be done, Snead noted. Voter ID laws need to be strengthened, especially for mail-in ballots, he said, as well as better maintenance of voter rolls, creating state offices “to investigate and prosecute election fraud,” ban “Zuckerbucks 2.0,” and ban foreign funding of state ballot measure campaigns.

“I guarantee the left is doing postmortem,” Snead said, as they consider “litigation, law changes, lobbying, and maybe a renewed push at RCV in different places, so we can’t do any less.”

Natalia Mittelstadt graduated from Regent University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication Studies and Government.

Reprinted with Permission from Just The News – By Natalia Mittelstadt

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of AMAC or AMAC Action.

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John Liem
John Liem
11 days ago

Why any sane person with an ounce of common sense would oppose mandating that ONLY living AMERICAN citizens with ID’s, can vote in state and federal elections, is beyond me!

Adrian
Adrian
11 days ago

I vote n Illinois. This year’s (2024) election verification was a joke. In previous elections, voter verification was done by comparison of a written signature in front of the judges/people providing the ballot to the one they have on file. This year one “wrote” with your finger on a touch sensitive screen. My signature was nothing like that on file. First of all I used only my initials for my given names rather than written out, and the last 4 letters of my 6 letter last name was a squiggly line. Have you signed stuff on a touch sensitive screen? I can’t reproduce anything close to my written signature on a touch sensitive screen, no matter how many times I try. We need a picture ID for voter verification! Signatures are not enough, especially if moving them to touch sensitive screens.

Paul S
Paul S
11 days ago

I don’t know. I think it was too big to steal at least at the top level. The President’s actual margin of victory was so large, it’s hard not to think 4 Senate races (AZ, NV, MI and WI) were still likely stolen. The same shenanigans that we saw in PA played out in those states as well. A whole lot more work, including criminal cases, is definitely needed.

Lynn
Lynn
11 days ago

Must keep a sharpe eye out for the dishonest democrats
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Thinking
Thinking
11 days ago

RCV is the most ridiculous voting system the dems came up with. They might as well stop elections and just appoint their candidate to the job. The dems were fraudulent in 2020. The excuse that Trump was so far ahead in 2024 that is why there were no problems. Biden won by a large margin after the fraud in 2020. That is why there were so many delays. We know there was fraud because 15 million voters are missing. The past 4 years, have they all been killed or were they already in the cemetery in 2020. In PA the county commissioners ordered ineligible ballots to be counted anyway. Till the people called them on it. No way were they allowing that to happen. We should have supported Trump more in 2020 but everyone was afraid of the hold the dems had over the people. But they all woke up. We had an honest election. We followed the laws and the people voted en masse for change. They were done with the lies the dems told us. They miscalculated. The people were not sheep and followed them blindly. The people were smarter than they thought. They couldn’t even get an honest poll. Their lies had taught the people well. They lied to the pollsters. And even a billion dollars couldn’t get Harris elected for dog catcher. Now they are talking Harris should run in 2028. She is not qualified for the job. The woman could not explain her policies. Could not speak without a teleprompter. Biden couldn’t speak with or without one. She could give a good speech by saying someone else’s words. We could get a robot to do that. She was a shill for Obama. He wants to be a dictator that destroyed America. Thank God the people saw through his plan.

Olga Lena
Olga Lena
11 days ago

There was definitely election fraud…again I believe more seriously than this article states. But, our prayers were answered. ????

Charlotte Mahin
Charlotte Mahin
11 days ago

The GOP cannot let up on any of the measures they used in questionable states to stop the cheating that took place n 2020! Good job on this election, but we all know there are still states that have voter roles that are not up to date and some states (like AZ,PA and NV) who just could not seem to get their counts done….I think it was because they were trying to find ways to CHEAT!! Ever since Hobbs darkened AZ as AG and now Governor, our elections have been a joke. We must finish the job of making sure ALL states are following all the rules!!!

Myrna
Myrna
11 days ago

Alaska will have a recount of the vote to get rid of ranked choice voting. We almost had it but right at the end we lost by 2 tenths of 1%. It is so close we are hoping the recount will solve this problem. Before RCV one presidential election cost $3 million. With RCV the next election cost $11 million. This is not a better method.

Leslie
Leslie
11 days ago

It is a bit ridiculous that India with their huge population can tabulate all their ballots in 24 hours, but America can’t. Take the DEI/CRT money and spend it on election equipment. Geez!!

Robert
Robert
11 days ago

How old is this story? The Republicans have already won the House several days ago!

CLIFFORD F GERACI
CLIFFORD F GERACI
10 days ago

I pray to God, that congress can pass laws in these next two years that will make America stronger in defending the vote, and more force full in keeping our laws. Progressives are lawless and destructive.

Randall L. Beatty
Randall L. Beatty
11 days ago

Now that we have everything going lets make this country great get everything better here show the country and the world that President Trump is back and have great picks to make this country better and let people see that the Republicans are the better choice.

Stephen Russell
Stephen Russell
11 days ago

Have J6
RCV alone & Cabinet battles

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