I spent almost 30 years supporting, monitoring, and assessing foreign elections, beginning in 1992 as a UN District Electoral Supervisor in Cambodia’s transitional election, and ending in 2021 as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance in the first Trump administration. As a top professional in my field, I know how to assess election integrity better than virtually any lawyer, government official, journalist, talking head, or politician.
I believe that none of the Democratic candidates elected last Tuesday should be considered legitimate, because they were elected after promoting non-transparent processes intentionally designed to prevent effective monitoring and verification. When we encountered this sort of managed obfuscation overseas, it was considered a clear indication of a corrupt election, and we must apply the same standards to assess the credibility of elections at home as we do abroad.
A large majority of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, support voter ID, and voter ID is a standard security feature of election processes in all of the world’s other electoral democracies. Yet the Democrats reject voter ID in their policy platform and fight it through relentless lawfare in clearly politicized courts.
Accurate voter rolls are the foundation of legitimate elections because excess names on a roll can be used to cast illegal votes in many different ways, and America’s voter rolls are the most bloated and least accurate in the world. Cleaning rolls and conducting voter roll audits are normal administrative and security procedures in all of the world’s other electoral democracies. But in the U.S., the Democrats consistently oppose cleaning or auditing voter rolls. When anyone suggests it is necessary or tries to clean the rolls, Democrats fight ferociously against it in the politicized courts.
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