Election Integrity

Constitution: Article 4 - The States, Section 4 - Republican Government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, …..

Republic: A government in which power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote; and is exercised by elected representatives responsible to them, and governing according to the laws.

• Historically, US elections were done at the local level in small sized precincts.

• Fraud was prevented because the election workers at each precinct were from both major  parties (Democrat and Republican).  I one side cheated, the other caught it.

• Ballots were subject to strict Chain of Custody requirements enforced by election workers.  This insured all ballots came from legitimate voters, with the voting record maintained in poll books.

Recent elections have not followed these historical norms.

Clean Election Bill

Phill Kline of American Voters’ Alliance, and Dr. Naomi Wolf at DailyClout, teamed up to draft this model bill to clean up US elections.  It is designed to be implemented in every state.

https://dailyclout.io/election-transparency-accountability-and-inclusion-act-model-law-dailyclout-and-american-voters-alliance/ 

The bill:

Ensures paper ballots  (critical for election auditability)

• If anyone uses machines to count, the code must be accessible to inspection

• It deters “ballot harvesting”  (Cheating in 2000 Mules)

• It ensures voters must show US ID as citizens

• It ensures that absentee ballots must be affirmatively requested by the voter

• Voting is a one day process

• Vote counting is public (as in our past in the US, when vote counting happened on a raised outside dais in front of everyone in the community)

• It removes NGOs and nonprofits (often funded by partisan dark money, or “Zuckbucks”) out of the voting process

But Why is a Clean Election Bill Needed?  

Election Cheating - Cheating to alter or "steal" an election is obviously unconstitutional.  See the next page for numerous cheating methods that have been used. Link

If it is possible to cheat in elections – someone is probably cheating.  There is simply too much power at stake.

It is the responsibility of state and local governments to run honest, fair and secure elections.  They need to prove to their citizens that the elections are legitimate.

Illustrate Absurdity be Being Absurd 

- Rush Limbaugh

Does your city use voting machines that were not allowed to be inspected (a black box) by the candidates/citizens?
Bring a black box to the city council and ask them if they would be willing to let this tabulator count their votes for the council. Why not?

Does your county not allow the paper ballots to be audited to check for accuracy and legitimacy?

Bring Monopoly money to the county meeting and offer to pay your taxes with it. Surely the county clerks will not "check" to make sure citizens are paying with real money!  If they will not accept counterfeit money, why would they accept counterfeit ballots? 

 (Photocopied $20 bills would be better for illustration purposes.  But it is illegal to photocopy currency -  Unlike photocopied ballots being allegedly counted in some election centers.)