Sunday Smiles

David Strom 2:30 PM | September 29, 2024
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Good morning. 

There are 37 days until the election. 

Sort of. In many states, voting has already begun, which, to be honest, is insane. 

There is lots of evidence and little proof that voting fraud is changing the results of elections, but given how impossible it is to audit results we might consider changing our arguments when talking to people about this issue. 

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I've thought a lot about this, given that some of my family members keep saying, "there's no proof that elections are being stolen." The question really shouldn't be, "Do we have proof." The question we should be, "how do we increase confidence among everybody that elections are fair and unbiased?"

Think about it: we can all agree (except for those who want to keep holes big enough to drive a truck full of ballots through) that one of the foundations of a democratic form of government is faith that the elections are fair, yet there are lots of ways that we could increase confidence without making it difficult for people to vote. 

Other countries do it. They use paper ballots, very limited windows during which voting can occur, and can count all the ballots in a single night. Fewer people doubt the results because the way the elections are conducted increases confidence. 

Parliamentary systems of government have campaigns that are shorter than American voting periods. From start to finish, the campaigns are shorter than the time people can vote here. And yet it takes weeks to count the ballots in areas a tiny fraction of the size of those countries. 

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States around the country routinely violate the Help America Vote Act, refusing to clean their voter rolls. North Carolina just did and wound up removing almost a million ineligible voters from the ballot after Democrats fought to prevent the process from taking place. 

Democrats don't want proof of citizenship, a bare requirement for being eligible. They register illegal aliens and noncitizens to vote and then assure us that these registered voters would never break the law by doing so. 

Even if you assume the implausible, that people whose first act in the United States is violating our law don't take the opportunity to do so in this case, why object to making their fellow citizens feel better about the election fairness by making them more secure?

You and I know the reason, but we should make defenders of the current system defend their claims. Instead of putting yourself in the position of defending an impossible-to-prove contention that the election was stolen, make them defend the security holes. They have no case for the current system other than vague handwaving about ballot access, while we have a strong case about ballot security. 

We'll never win over hardcore Democrats, but the vast majority of Americans believe that elections should be more secure. Make the left defend an insecure system. We have to argue on territory where people feel comfortable, and people don't want to get into an argument about whether an election was stolen. 

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We won't win that argument immediately, but we can win it over time by demanding that the left reassure us that the system is fair. Get away from the toxic discussions about stolen elections--people don't want to believe that the system allows stolen elections. Make them defend their stance that our concerns shouldn't be alleviated to ensure greater unity. 















































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