The Patriot Post® · 'Extremists Attack the Integrity of Free and Fair Elections'
Democrats are bound and determined to “save democracy” by undermining it at every turn. It’s the only way they can even begin to hope Joe Biden will defeat Donald Trump this November. Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland are just the latest contestants in that cynical game.
Both of them went to Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama, Sunday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the clash between police and civil rights protesters there, and they asserted some outright falsehoods. The purpose is to shore up black voters for Biden, as he’s beginning to lose them to Trump.
We’ll start with Garland:
The right to vote is still under attack, and that is why the Justice Department is fighting back. That is why one of the first things I did when I came into office was to double the size of the voting section of the Civil Rights Division. That is why we are challenging efforts by states and jurisdictions to implement discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot, including those related to mail-in voting, the use of drop boxes, and voter ID requirements.
“There are many things that are open to debate in America,” Garland also said. “One thing that must not be open for debate is the right of all eligible citizens to vote and to have their vote counted.”
Harris also complained about election integrity.
Today, in states across our nation, extremists pass laws to ban drop boxes, limit early voting, and restrict absentee ballots. In Georgia, extremists passed a law to even make it illegal to give people food and water for standing in line to exercise their civic duty and right to vote. …
Across our nation, extremists attack the integrity of free and fair elections.
Not surprisingly, we have a few points of rebuttal.
If a Republican were to show up in a church and talk about voting, he’d be accused of the supposedly rank sin of Christian Nationalism, flagrantly breaking down the Left’s sacred “wall of separation” and thus threatening democracy. Yet Democrats can do that in black churches all day, every day. So not only do we have two-tiered justice implemented by Garland and others, but we have two-tiered religious liberty.
It’s nothing but a BIG Lie for Democrats to assert that (in this case, unnamed) Republicans are trying to take away the right to vote from anyone. There are more options to vote early and by mail than at any point in American history. Eight states and Washington, DC, run their elections primarily through the mail, with every eligible voter automatically receiving a ballot. Nearly all states allow in-person early voting, with 21 of them offering voting on Saturday and nine on Sunday.
Some 36 states request or require some form of identification to vote, though only 10 require photo ID. (It should be all 50.) Fourteen states require no documentation whatsoever.
“Voters across all demographics support voter ID laws in virtually every poll by almost 80%,” notes The Heritage Foundation. “This typically includes more than 60% of Democrats.” It also includes large majorities of minorities.
Yet racist Democrats continue implying that blacks and Hispanics somehow have a more difficult time obtaining photo IDs. They never explain why it’s “discriminatory” to require the same verification for everyone, regardless of color.
We’ll address Harris’s ridiculous complaint about Georgia with a few questions. Why can’t voters exercising their civic duty bring their own water or food in preparation for lines? Who happens to run the dysfunctional precincts with long lines in places like Atlanta? (Hint: Democrats.) And why do electioneering volunteers insist on providing water to voters — and ensuring voters know who provided it?
Harris failed to note that after Georgia passed its election integrity law rolling back some of the pandemic excesses, the state saw record turnout in 2022.
In truth, of course, the only extremists attacking the integrity of our elections are Democrats.
As our Mark Alexander wrote last fall:
Of the votes cast in 2020, 43% (66 million ballots) were cast by mail — and a majority of those were in states where authentication of the person receiving and casting the ballot is not required. Of all those who voted in person, 66% voted for Trump versus 42% for Biden — which is to say that 58% of Biden ballots, almost 47 million votes, were cast by mail.
Failing to authenticate mail-in ballots or to even try to obtain any proof of eligibility for in-person voters is a dereliction of duty. It is deliberately choosing to neglect the integrity of our elections. One in five mail-in voters even admitted to ballot fraud in 2020. Not only can that change results — it might have been decisive in 2020 — but it undermines public confidence in our election process and deeply divides the country. Democrats want both, of course, which is why Harris and Garland are tag-teaming to smear the “extremists” on the GOP side.
But again, who are the extremists?
Maybe — just maybe — the extremists are the ones implementing cockamamie schemes to remove Trump’s name from state ballots. Schemes so obviously foolish that the Supreme Court rebuked them 9-0.
Maybe the extremists are the ones conducting egregiously partisan lawfare against Trump during an election year. They’re suing him for defamation, hitting him with unbelievable fines for the victimless “crime” of buying and selling real estate, and hitting him with four separate indictments with 91 counts for everything from business accounting to so-called “insurrection.”
Democrats intended to make Trump the GOP nominee with all of this lawfare because they hoped to beat him in a fourth straight national election. But if the polling is any indication, they severely miscalculated — at least if Biden remains the nominee.
There are still roughly eight months until Election Day, and Democrats intend to have Trump sitting in a courtroom for as many days as possible during that stretch, calculating that independents won’t vote for a guy under so much legal duress and that they’d opt instead to vote for the vegetable or the late replacement.
In other words, “Across our nation, extremists attack the integrity of free and fair elections.” Notably, by the way, Kamala Harris did not name the extremists, which means, ironically, she’s right.