Election Integrity

Georgia supposedly has the cleanest voter rolls in the nation, but with 3 million possible errors

A day after Valentine’s Day, there wasn’t much love lost between the Secretary of State Office’s Chief Operating Officer Gabe Sterling and advocates for cleaning the voter rolls at Georgia Senate Ethics Committee Hearing. Although testimony was cordial, Jason Fraizer, Mark Davis, and Dr. Rick Richards were not moved by Sterling’s bold assertion that “Georgia...

March 6, 2024

Election Integrity

In Georgia And Elsewhere, Officials Sow Distrust In Elections By Dismissing Voters’ Integrity Concerns

Curling v. Raffensperger points to a growing lack of confidence in elections that stretches beyond Georgia and party lines. Election integrity advocates eagerly await the final verdict in a Georgia case about the security of the state’s voting machines. The decision would significantly affect the election procedures in this key state and beyond. Yet, regardless of...

March 4, 2024

Election Integrity

‘If Election Fraud Exists, Why Isn’t It Being Prosecuted?’

Only recently, with the General Election of 2020, did it seem like the debate over election integrity finally reached the public sphere. Even then, the skeptics and naysayers still far outnumber those of us who have seen it firsthand—and are willing to talk about it. Election fraud, stolen elections and vote harvesting are all lumped...

February 28, 2024

Election Integrity

Will Voters Know Who Won Wisconsin on Election Night? Maybe Not.

On the presidential level, having an undeclared winner as Americans fall asleep in front of their TVs on election night, awaking Wednesday morning to confusion and uncertainty, has fostered chaos and a slow, cancer-like erosion of public trust in our elections. We understand that above all else, ballots must be counted accurately. But that doesn’t...

February 26, 2024

Election Integrity

Underage Voting Could Undermine American Elections

When Marylanders go to the polls on May 14 to cast their ballots in the state’s primary elections, the races in some cities could be decided by 16- and 17-year-olds. Cheverly, Maryland, as well as the nearby cities of Greenbelt, Hyattsville, Riverdale Park, and Takoma Park will all allow teens to vote. And it’s not...

February 20, 2024

Election Integrity

Organized Election Fraud: Politiqueras, Mail Ballots, and Vote Harvesting

Election fraud cases that grab the most headlines are almost always related to vote harvesting. Vote harvesting is the term used to describe teams of people who conduct large-scale operations to illegally obtain massive amounts of ballots for a chosen candidate. It is so common in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley that harvesters have their own...

February 14, 2024

Election Integrity

Soros Strategery

The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here.  Texas Democrats will tell you that they lose elections not because Texas is a red state but because it’s a “non-voting” state. It’s an effective coping mechanism for a party...

February 2, 2024

Election Integrity

Unprecedented Trump Eligibility Challenges Could Again Cause Election Process Chaos

Since the 2020 election, chaos and order have been the yin and yang in the battle for election integrity. One side routinely  introduces electoral chaos into our fragile system, causing doubt and confusion. The other side strives to restore a bipartisan loss of confidence in the system. And in this battle between order and chaos,...

February 1, 2024

Election Integrity

Wisconsin Court Rules Democrats’ Creepy Voter Van Strategy a Loser

There is a reason our parents always told us to beware of strangers in vans. That even applies in elections. As children, our parents taught us to beware of strangers. We were cautioned to avoid strangers offering candy or to let you pet their puppy. But perhaps above all, we were warned never to get...

February 1, 2024

Election Integrity

Liars and deniers: Election fraud exists, and it can change the outcome of an election

Election fraud: It’s a loaded term in our nation’s public discourse but I’ve found that even politically savvy people do not fully understand how complicated, or common it is. I was a prosecutor in the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Division from 2019 to 2023. I went there shortly after the office was created, when...

February 1, 2024

Election Integrity

Secure Elections Before Election Day

The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here.  With less than two weeks until the Iowa Caucus and exactly two months (tomorrow) until the Texas primaries, election season is in full swing. America’s election system should be the...

January 4, 2024

Election Integrity

The Ghosts of Past, Present, and Future and the Need to Learn from Elections Past

Elections officials can learn tangible  lessons from Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Christmas Carol. As we head into the 2024 presidential election, it would be wise to learn from the Ghosts of Elections Past, Present, and Future. Ebenezer Scrooge spent years in recurring misery, making the same mistakes over and over again. His cycle of...

December 20, 2023