Is It Asking Too Much For Free And Fair Elections?

Is it too much to ask for a little balance when it comes to American presidential elections?

I’m not talking about balanced news coverage. I know THAT’s not going to happen.

I mean a balance between making it easy to vote and making it easy to cheat. 

Is that so hard?

Requiring a picture ID to vote, for instance, should not be controversial. Yes, I am aware that leftists have low opinions of African Americans and believe that they travel through our world without identification. I don’t happen to believe that. I believe that people of all races have IDs and should be required to produce one to vote.

Here in Virginia if you don’t have a picture ID a current utility bill with your name and address can substitute. 

Idiocy.

Produce a picture ID or you don’t get to vote.

This isn’t hard.

Then there’s the question of non-citizens voting. This is illegal under both federal and Virginia law.

But when Gov. Glenn Youngkin notified more than 1,000 self-identified non-citizens that they were coming off the voter rolls, leftists scurried to court to block the move.

He was cleaning the voter rolls too close to the election, they claim.

Better late than never.

A federal judge, however, agreed with the malcontents. So did a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Attorney General Jason Miyares announced yesterday that he’s appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

He’s doing this on behalf of all legal voters in Virginia. Thank you, Attorney General. Nice someone is taking election integrity seriously.

Ask yourself why the Biden/Harris DOJ would waste time and money to keep non-citizens on the voter rolls.

These people were likely added mistakenly through Virginia’s motor-voter system or they got out of jury duty by saying they weren’t Americans.

If people were added to the rolls in error there should be no question about taking them off. Regardless of the calendar. If they skipped jury duty by claiming to be non-citizens, these cheaters committed a different crime - falsely filling out an official document, perjury or contempt of court - and should be prosecuted for that. 

So much legal heartburn for simply trying to ensure we have clean elections in the Old Dominion.

It’s everywhere.

We learned yesterday that the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots received three days after the election with no postmark will be counted.

Sigh.

With that curious decision this court just expanded what Nevada state law allows, according to USA Today.

Nevada State law allows for mailed ballots to be counted when they are returned to county clerks by 5 p.m. on the fourth day after Election Day with a postmark by Election Day. If “the date of the postmark cannot be determined,” ballots received by 5 p.m. three days after Election Day “shall been deemed to have been postmarked on or before the day of the election.”..

Perfect! Cheaters on the losing side will be able to know just how many ballots they need to find they can get them to the registrar without postmarks.

If this presidential race is as tight as pollsters say it is, a relative handful of ballots in a key district can change the outcome.

Here’s a radical idea: Let’s limit the occasions for shenanigans so we can all have faith in election results.