{"id":1566837,"date":"2022-07-22T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566837"},"modified":"2022-07-22T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:49:49","slug":"exclusive-free-fair-and-honest-former-trump-spokesperson-praises-states-new-election-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-free-fair-and-honest-former-trump-spokesperson-praises-states-new-election-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Free, Fair And Honest\u2019: Former Trump Spokesperson Praises States\u2019 New Election Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-free-fair-and-honest-former-trump-spokesperson-praises-states-new-election-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566837&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>The America First Policy Institute\u2019s Center for Election Integrity (CEI) praised seven states for recently passing election integrity laws in a new report.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former Trump spokesperson and CEI director Hogan Gidley discussed the report with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cPeople are always concerned with the outcomes of these elections because the faith, trust and confidence in the election process has been eroded for years in this country,\u201d he told the DCNF.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Trump spokesperson Hogan Gidley praised seven states for protecting election integrity in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Seven states are being praised by the America First Policy Institute\u2019s (AFPI) Center For Election Integrity (CEI) in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/americafirstpolicy.com\/latest\/many-states-have-enacted-new-voter-protection-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> for recent legislative efforts to prevent voter fraud. Hogan Gidley, director of the CEI, explained the importance of the report during an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want elections to be free, fair and honest \u2013 and people on the right and the left have been complaining about the outcomes of elections for decades in this country,\u201d Gidley told the DCNF. \u201cPeople are always concerned with the outcomes of these elections because the faith, trust and confidence in the election process has been eroded for years in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CEI developed a color-coded, <a href=\"https:\/\/cei.americafirstpolicy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive, online map<\/a>\u00a0to rate states across three key areas of voter protection measures that make it harder to cheat. They include requiring photo identification to vote, prohibiting ballot harvesting and returning ballots to election officials by Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighty-five percent of people in this country want voters to prove they are who they say they are with a photo identification when they cast a ballot. Not voter identification. Photo identification,\u201d said Gidley. \u201cSo voting with an electric bill or a water bill is unacceptable to most voters because they know, try to use an electric bill to get on a plane. You can\u2019t do it.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/15\/house-administration-republicans-rodney-davis-fulton-county-accusations-shredded-ballot-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: House Administration Republicans Demand Answers From Fulton County Over Allegedly Shredded Ballot Applications)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7455006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7455006\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7455006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799.jpg\" alt=\"A voter fills in her ballot as her child tries to put a snack on a table at a school cafeteria being used as a polling location on election day in McLean, Virginia on November 2, 2021. - With the eyes of America watching, Virginians cast their ballots Tuesday as the state chooses its next governor in a margin-of-error skirmish seen as the first major test of President Joe Biden&#039;s political brand. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/GettyImages-1236298954-scaled-e1655749745799-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7455006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter fills in her ballot as her child tries to put a snack on a table at a school cafeteria being used as a polling location on election day in McLean, Virginia on November 2, 2021. \u2013 With the eyes of America watching, Virginians cast their ballots Tuesday as the state chooses its next governor in a margin-of-error skirmish seen as the first major test of President Joe Biden\u2019s political brand. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The report singled out Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Utah. CEI said the states have adopted into law a variety of election integrity measures that \u201cnow better protect every single legally cast vote and every legal voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. Constitution gives the right and responsibility to the state legislatures to decide the time, manner and place of how they conduct elections,\u201d Gidley said. \u201cSo what works in Montana may not work in Massachusetts, may not work in Mississippi, may not work in Maine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CEI also rates the states on whether they have banned private money from being illegally used to influence public elections \u2013 something commonly referred to as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/claudia-tenney-house-republicans-to-introduce-end-zuckerbucks-act-prohibit-tax-exempt-organizations-donating-election-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zuckerbucks.<\/a>\u201d That nickname references an estimated $420 million Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (Facebook) allegedly poured into the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>All seven states moved from red to green for prohibiting Zuckerbucks.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow colored states have some voter protection laws in place and green colored states have voter protection laws in place under the CEI key. There is an additional notation of black lines in some states that indicate where laws were on the books but were not followed in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe states that are marked as red are the states that really offer no voter protection whatsoever, no or very little voter protection whatsoever and I think that\u2019s a problem not for the state itself but for the rest of the country too,\u201d Gidley said.<\/p>\n<p>CEI\u2019s report highlighted a few states where governors vetoed significant election integrity measures passed by their legislature. For Example, Pennsylvania\u2019s governor vetoed a bill promoting comprehensive election reform, including voting machine evaluation and auditing, mail in ballot regulation and increasing penalties for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The America First Policy Institute praised election integrity efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}