America is one month away from the election of a lifetime. Both Left and Right perceive the opposing candidate as an existential threat, but they’re worlds apart on the need for election security.
Republican constituents across the country are organizing and creating legislative pressure to clean voter rolls, ensure election transparency, and prevent illegals from voting. Their major obstacles have been Democrats.
Georgia
In Georgia, the state Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee are suing the Georgia Election Board over three rules it recently implemented to curb election fraud. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments regarding two of the rules Tuesday.
The first rule requires election officials to conduct a “reasonable inquiry” into the accuracy of the election results before certifying them. The second rule allows individual county election board members to examine all documentation that was created as the election was being conducted. The third rule requires three separate individuals in each of Georgia’s voting precincts to hand count the ballots before the county deadline to certify election results. There are 2,400 precincts.
Judge McBurney said Tuesday that the “reasonable inquiry” rule “on its face is vague and needs clarification.”
As for the second rule, Democrats argue it would cause certification delays. (This from a party that turned Election Night into Election Month.) McBurney disagreed.
“That seems to be a permissive rule, and I struggle to see how that presents uncertainty to anyone because it permits access but doesn’t obligate anyone to do anything. It says you may, but not that you must,” the judge said.
The judge told both sides that, one way or another, the results need to be certified in time. He said, “The deadline is the deadline. Get done what you can. What is reasonable to one person might be not reasonable to another. But you make your inquiry and then it’s wheels up at 5 p.m. on the 12th of November.”
Oregon
Meanwhile, on the West Coast in Oregon, at least 1,259 noncitizen voters were discovered during an audit. House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) and Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) are demanding that Oregon provide answers as to how this happened.
According to the Washington Examiner:
For nearly a decade, Oregon automatically registered to vote anyone who obtains or updates a driver’s license or state ID and isn’t already a voter. However, in 2021, the law changed after state lawmakers authorized driver’s licenses for undocumented residents.
DMV Administrator Amy Joyce said earlier this month that the agency had a two-step process for verifying license applicants who had a U.S. passport or a birth certificate, but has since added a third step after the errors of noncitizen voting were revealed.
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