You are wrong to dishonestly claim election securities are not worth the cost. President Carter knew the importance of and necessity for voter IDs to restrict opportunities and avenues for election fraud.
The Carter-Baker Commission, 16 Years Later: Absentee and Voting by Mail (bakerinstitute.org)
The Carter-Baker Commission, 16 Years Later: Voting by Mail
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In 2005, former President Jimmy Carter and former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, co-chaired the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which produced a report on the U.S. electoral process and recommendations on maximizing ballot access and election integrity.
Sixteen years later, many of the recommendations remain relevant. While the COVID-19 pandemic and record number of voters who cast absentee or mail-in ballots raised concerns about the security of the 2020 absentee process, the Carter-Baker report warned: “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
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Latest Alleged Election Fraud May Have Changed Election Results (dailysignal.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”
Latest Alleged Election Fraud in California May Have Changed Election Outcome
Hans von Spakovsky / @HvonSpakovsky / August 24, 2021
Felony voter fraud charges have been filed against six defendants, including a member of the Compton City Council, Isaac Galvan, by the Los Angeles County district attorney. Pictured: Galvan appears in Los Angeles Superior Court on Aug. 13. (Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images)
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Hans von Spakovsky@HvonSpakovsky
Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2008, when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, that “not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that it could affect the outcome of a close election.”
It seems we have a perfect example of this in Compton, California, where felony voter fraud charges have been filed against six defendants, including a member of the Compton City Council, Isaac Galvan, by the Los Angeles County district attorney.
Talk about a close election! Galvan won his City Council race in 2021 by only one vote, 855 to 854. Not only have all of the defendants been charged with conspiracy to commit election fraud, but Galvan is also accused of attempting to bribe an election official with concert tickets to “influence” the outcome of the election.
It is important to remember, though, that these are just charges and that all the defendants are presumed to be innocent at this stage of the proceedings.
