It's election season in America. That means you need to make sure your early voting, absentee ballot, and voter registration is up to date.
It is also a test of how well each state maintains its voter rolls and electoral systems, and how each state ensures fair conduct and counting of elections.
A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) identifies at least 50 threats to election integrity. The report, released just this week, categorizes 50 different threats to election integrity, depending on whether they relate to “dark money” influence, illegal activity, voter fraud, or election fraud. are. The report documents each example and provides potential solutions.
About the latest episode of drill down, Peter Schweitzer and co-host Eric Eggers tackle the various ways elections can be rigged and, more importantly, how to prevent it from happening.
Many states have worked diligently to clean up their voter rolls, removing dead voters, voters who left the state, and voters who were not U.S. citizens but were registered through driver's license applications.
But as the GAI report and Drill Down organizers explain, states like Michigan are not as strict. “We talk about this all the time because it’s still an issue. [battleground] This is a state ready for something important,” co-host Eric Eggers said. “In Michigan, we are seeing a number of counties with high voter registration rates. That's all 100%. ”
Mr. Eggers said in 2018, scam It details many of the different types of election fraud and match-fixing that have taken place in the history of the United States. However, the book was published two years before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, and the rule changes some states made, ostensibly to make voting during the pandemic safer, were designed to improve election security. This has had the effect of making it much more difficult to secure.
GAI's report examines how these rule changes, which have since been repealed or replaced in many states, may have affected the 2020 results and threatened the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. It's being taken up.
“Right now, 53 counties in Michigan have enrollment rates over 100 percent, which obviously means there are some names that don't belong there,” Eggers said. He points out that this isn't necessarily the fault of local or state election officials. Technically, it is the voter's responsibility to call their former state's registrar and ask to be removed from the voter rolls. “The book I wrote in 2018 was inspired by a certain report.” [GAI] Was it focused on duplication of voter rolls? In 2016, more than 2,000 cases of double voting were confirmed in Florida alone. ” The 2017 report is available on the GAI website here.
GAI's new report explores how these rule changes, which have since been repealed or replaced in many states, may have affected the 2020 results and threaten the integrity of the 2024 presidential election. It explains. The report categorizes risks to elections into five categories:
- ““Dark money” Zuckerbucks, etc. used for public election management.
- Lawyer work It uses taxpayer funds to “weaponize the judicial system against challengers to the incumbent.”
- “Please come out and vote.” Activities that use their nonprofit status to target voters of their preferred political party.
- Voting fraud by people who double vote, fraudulently vote on someone else's ballot, or vote without being eligible to vote.
- election fraud Attempts to fix an election by illegal activity during the counting or collection of ballots.
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