{"id":2143288,"date":"2024-01-08T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-states-have-a-long-way-to-go-to-safeguard-the-2024-election\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T12:21:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T17:21:23","slug":"swing-states-have-a-long-way-to-go-to-safeguard-the-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-states-have-a-long-way-to-go-to-safeguard-the-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing states must do more to protect the 2024 election"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fswing-states-have-a-long-way-to-go-to-safeguard-the-2024-election%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=2143288&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--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Not long\u200c before Christmas, Wisconsin\u2019s leftist chief executive dumped a big lump of coal in the election-integrity stocking. <\/p>\n<p>Democrat\u200c Gov. Tony Evers vetoed another round of bills passed by the Republican-controlled legislature, bills designed \u200bto check the far-left excesses of the 2020 Covid-plagued election. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1034777174\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-04e2ccb670c5e6960188d766a8f54f6d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-04e2ccb670c5e6960188d766a8f54f6d\"><\/div>\n<p>One measure simply required absentee voters to apply for \u201cindefinitely confined\u201d status\u200b as opposed to determining their eligibility by a mere signature. In 2020, \u2064as\u2064 Evers and his army of bureaucrats did everything within their\u2064 power \u200c\u2014 and outside it \u2014 to lock\u2064 down the state, more \u200dthan 220,000 voters claimed they\u200d were \u201cindefinitely confined,\u201d a designation typically\u200c reserved for \u2062obstacles such as age, physical illness, infirmity, or \u2063disability.<\/p>\n<p>According \u200dto a state Legislative Audit Bureau examination of\u2064 the 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2023\/bill-requiring-application-to-claim-indefinitely-confined-status-for-voting-headed-to-evers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">169,901 \u200dvoters <\/a>claiming they were indefinitely confined had done so \u200cfor the first time.\u2064 They used\u2064 Covid as their cover. Suffice \u200dto \u200csay, there were abuses. <\/p>\n<p>Former Democrat State Sen. Patty Schachtner was \u2062actively campaigning for an Assembly\u2063 seat at\u200b the\u2064 time when she claimed she was \u201cindefinitely confined\u201d to her home. Facebook posts showed as much. Schachtner\u2063 lost, but she joined nine \u200bother \u2064electors in casting Wisconsin\u2019s 10 electoral votes for Joe Biden\u2062 following the contentious and\u2063 controversial presidential election, conservative talk show\u2062 host Dan\u2062 O\u2019Donnell reported at the time. O\u2019Donnell reported on dozens of purportedly \u201cconfined\u201d voters enjoying a less-than-cloistered life.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"fAZePBi8hb2aMWLpj4ot71gTDrsxGK3vkVE0cOIFR\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wisconsin&#8217;s 10 presidential electors are at the State Capitol casting their ballots. One of those\u200b 10, Democratic \u2062State Senator Patty Schachtner, likely\u2063 committed election fraud when she falsely claimed\u2062 to be \u2064indefinitely confined to her home.\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QwPslbCufC\">https:\/\/t.co\/QwPslbCufC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan O&#8217;Donnell \u2064(@DanODonnellShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanODonnellShow\/status\/1338550029729099782?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December\u200d 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Evers has been extremely liberal with \u2064his veto pen,\u200d smashing the record \u2062number of vetoes that had\u200c stood \u2062for nearly a century. But \u2064the Democrat has been particularly severe \u2062on election-integrity reforms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/gov-tony-evers-vetoed-these-bills-they-could-be-reconsidered-if-tim-michels-elected-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killing slews of them<\/a> since 2020.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a23bd27347d80a9fe53c37465a188a03 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a23bd27347d80a9fe53c37465a188a03\"><\/div>\n<p>The governor\u2019s assault on election reforms leaves\u200b a key swing state vulnerable to the kind of \u2064assaults on fair and honest elections\u2062 that rocked the 2020 contest. Election \u200bexperts say\u200d other battleground states, particularly Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, \u200cand Pennsylvania, have a long way\u200c to go to safeguard \u200dtheir elections\u200d as well. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection \u2064integrity should be on \u200cthe top \u2062of \u2062every \u2064list of legislative priorities this session,\u201d said Madeline Malisa, senior fellow at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\">Foundation \u200dfor Government Accountability<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stop \u2018Zuckbucks\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/states-banning-zuck-bucks\/\">More than half<\/a> of the \u200bstates now have laws on the books barring or \u200crestricting private funding for local election \u200cadministration. \u2062The wave of reform \u2063legislation followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cZuckbucks\u201d scandal <\/a>of 2020. \u2063Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, \u2063Priscilla \u2064Chan, pumped $400\u200c million into left-led nonprofits that\u2063 handed out so-called \u201csafe election\u201d grants to local election offices across\u200c the country. But the brunt of \u200dthe funding \u2063went to \u200dDemocrat-led cities, especially in battleground \u2064states,\u2063 where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnla.org\/report_raises_questions_about_green_bay_elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat activists \u200b <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/imprimis.hillsdale.edu\/zuckerbucks-2020-election\/\">infiltrated election\u200d administration.<\/a> Documents show\u2063 in\u2064 many cases the grant program was a privately funded get-out-the-vote campaign to drive swing-state \u2063Democrat voters. <\/p>\n<p>While Wisconsin and Michigan are among the states that have passed bills prohibiting Zuckbucks-like private election grants, their Democrat \u200bgovernors \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/states-banning-zuck-bucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vetoed<\/a> the legislation.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c977e2c76de31e31163fc200b45fa261 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c977e2c76de31e31163fc200b45fa261\"><\/div>\n<p>Bypassing Evers, Wisconsin legislative Republicans passed a resolution putting the question up for referendum. Voters will decide this spring whether private funding will be\u2062 allowed to\u2063 continue in local election offices. <\/p>\n<p>Voter-integrity\u200d advocates can\u2064 take encouragement from Louisiana, where \u200cvoters\u200c in October approved a\u200c similar <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/16\/louisiana-joins-states-banning-zuckbucks-but-will-that-be-enough-to-stop-dems-private-election-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ballot issue<\/a> with \u200dnearly 73 percent support. <\/p>\n<p>Malisa said \u2062Foundation for Government \u200dAccountability polling \u2064suggests Wisconsin\u2019s\u200d vote in April may be \u200bas resounding. <\/p>\n<p>Swing states Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, \u200cand Pennsylvania have each outlawed private money in local election administration. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cluttered Voter Rolls<\/h2>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s \u200bvoter \u2063rolls are a\u2063 mess. \u200cThe state\u2019s Democrat Secretary of State Adrian \u2062Fontes and \u200chis predecessor, Katie Hobbs, the \u2063governor of the \u2062swing state who came under \u2063fire for\u200c her \u2062handling of the 2020 presidential election,\u2062 have failed to do\u2063 critical voter list maintenance. More than a dozen Arizona counties appear to be in violation of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which mandates states keep accurate\u2062 and current voter rolls for elections for \u2063federal office. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt \u2062is apparent that\u2064 Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and his predecessor have failed to perform the necessary voter list \u2063maintenance\u2062 required by state and federal \u200claw,\u201d Arizona voter Scot Mussi said in \u200can\u200b August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestelections.org\/honest-elections-project-supports-new-pre-litigation-notices-against-arizona-and-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press \u200drelease<\/a> from \u2064the Honest Elections Project. <\/p>\n<p>Concerns about the clotted voter rolls are only heightened\u200b by a \u2063flood of illegal immigrants pouring\u200c into the\u200c southwest border state.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Maricopa-AZ-Noncitizen-Report-2023-FINAL.pdf\">report<\/a> \u2062 published last year by the Public Interest Legal Foundation found that at least \u2062222 noncitizens since\u200b 2015 had registered to vote in massive Maricopa County, with nine, perhaps more, filling out ballots\u2063 in federal elections. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is\u200c just more evidence that there is a problem that is not\u200d being adequately\u200b addressed,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/j-christian-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">J. Christian Adams<\/a>, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and a \u2062former lawyer in the Justice Department\u2019s voting rights section, \u200dtold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/apr\/25\/hundreds-noncitizens-ended-voting-rolls-maricopa-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington\u2064 Times<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>AZ\u2062 Free News\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/azfreenews.com\/2023\/10\/secretary-of-states-office-lacks-processes-in-place-to-clean-voter-rolls-of-over-78k-noncitizens-nonresidents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> last year that in two\u200c quarterly \u200creports issued to the state legislature, the secretary of state\u2019s \u2062office noted that it had received reports of \u200bmore than 78,200 potentially invalid voters. The numbers included more\u200d than\u2064 1,300 individuals \u201cwho admitted to not being a citizen on a jury\u200b questionnaire\u201d;\u2062 and \u2064north of 23,600 people \u201cwho admitted to not being a resident of a county on\u200c a jury questionnaire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden claimed victory in the\u200c Granite\u2063 State by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-donald-trump-arizona-phoenix-elections-9638adedbe826b31b5d172ba3a1c7c3a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10,457 \u200cvotes<\/a>, or a fraction of a percentage\u200d point, of the 3.4 million ballots cast.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have\u200d pushed\u2063 hard against citizenship identification. In Wisconsin, Evers \u2063recently vetoed a bill that\u200c would have required the state Department of\u200b Transportation to note on noncitizen ID cards that the identification is \u201cnot valid\u2063 for\u2064 voting purposes.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ballot Harvesting<\/h2>\n<p>Election-integrity advocates\u2064 say the\u2062 battle\u2064 over ballot harvesting will be crucial this election year.\u200c The\u200b practice of mass vote collection for processing presents very real\u200b election-integrity and security concerns. Vote \u200dbundling\u2064 has proved very \u2064effective for Democrats.\u200b California\u200b once\u2063 allowed individuals to be paid per ballot \u2064collected and employers to encourage employees to drop off their ballots\u200c in\u2062 the workplace. <\/p>\n<p>As of \u2062last \u200dmonth, 33 states \u200callow voters to authorize someone to return an absentee\u2064 ballot\u2064 on their behalf, with 10 limiting\u200c how\u2064 many ballots the authorized representative may return, according to \u200bthe\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/elections-and-campaigns\/table-10-ballot-collection-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Ballot security questions plagued the 2020 \u2062election, when an \u2062estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/04\/what-methods-did-people-use-to-vote-in-2020-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">43 percent<\/a> of voters cast mail-in \u200dballots \u2063in the specter\u2063 of Covid and the government lockdown policies that\u2063 accompanied it. That was \u200ba huge spike from the 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eac.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/eac_assets\/1\/6\/2018_EAVS_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2018 elections<\/a>, which saw about a quarter of all voters mail in their ballots, according to a report by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Leftist organizations have for years \u200bclamored for expanded vote-by-mail \u200bcampaigns.\u200d Covid \u200cgave them the cover to realize their dream, but the mass mail-in effort rightly raised election-integrity alarm \u200cbells.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMail-in \u200cor absentee ballots are the ones most susceptible to being stolen, altered, and forged, and to having the voters be pressured or coerced when voting, because they are\u200d the only type of ballots marked in an unsupervised, unobserved setting,\u201d Heritage Foundation elections expert Hans von Spakovsky wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/election-integrity\/commentary\/we-shouldnt-be-promoting-voting-mail\">column<\/a> in late 2022. <\/p>\n<p>With ballot harvesting and the expansion of mailed ballots, 2020\u200c also saw\u2062 the\u2063 proliferation of \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-urge-dismissal-of-doj-lawsuit-against-georgia-election-law\/\" title=\"House Republicans Urge Dismissal Of DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Law\">absentee ballot drop boxes<\/a>, many of \u2064them unmanned. While corrupt \u200ccorporate\u200c media \u2063outlets have breathlessly defended the unsecured system of ballot collection, \u2062videos capturing late-night \u200bballot drops in \u200cseveral communities raised eyebrows and serious questions about the integrity of the 2020 elections. <\/p>\n<p>Many\u200c of those questions remain.  <\/p>\n<p>Only 37 percent of Americans think 2024\u2019s elections will\u2064 be \u201chonest and open to rightful voters,\u201d with 43 percent not so confident, according to a poll last fall by the \u200d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pac.org\/pulse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Affairs Council\/Morning Consult<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Encouragingly, the Foundation for Government Accountability has tracked significant \u200belection-integrity wins over \u2064the past few years. The list includes eight states that prohibit unsecured absentee ballot drop boxes. Another seven states have laws on the books\u200b requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, with photo \u200bID required for \u2062new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-suspicious-elections-absentee-data-from-detroit-36-of-absentee-ballots-returned-were-from-people-who-were-not-listed-as-being-sent-an-absentee-ballot\/\" title=\"More Suspicious Elections Absentee Data from Detroit: 36% of Absentee Ballots Returned Were From People Who Were Not Listed as Being Sent an Absentee Ballot\">absentee ballot applications<\/a> in six states. Five states have\u200d strengthened rights for\u200c election observers. Another four\u2063 states have established election crime units, \u2064while \u206210 states require \u200bpost-election\u200b audits. <\/p>\n<p>Still,\u200c the \u200bclock is ticking, particularly in swing states, to move on election-integrity legislation. A week\u2064 out from the Iowa caucuses, the first presidential\u200b nominating contest of the 2024 election cycle, the ticking is growing louder. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to pass good\u2062 policy in \u200cthis\u200c country it starts with election integrity,\u201d FGA\u2019s Malisa said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9b7691c46dcc980095ff4c76e1b2226f fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9b7691c46dcc980095ff4c76e1b2226f\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> Why did Governor Tony Evers\u200d veto the bills aimed at ensuring the\u2064 integrity of elections?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  The governor of Wisconsin, Democrat Tony Evers, has vetoed a series of\u2062 bills aimed at ensuring the integrity of elections. The bills were passed by the Republican-controlled legislature in an \u200battempt to address concerns over the 2020 election, which was heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>One of the measures that was vetoed required absentee \u200dvoters to apply\u2064 for &#8220;indefinitely\u200b confined&#8221; status rather than simply relying on signature verification. In the 2020\u200c election, over 220,000\u200c voters in\u200d Wisconsin claimed this status, which is typically reserved for individuals with obstacles such as age, illness, or disability. An examination of the election by the state Legislative Audit Bureau revealed that almost 170,000 voters claimed this status for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>There were incidents of abuse of \u2063this designation, with former Democratic State\u2064 Sen. Patty Schachtner claiming to be &#8220;indefinitely confined&#8221; while actively\u200c campaigning. Despite this, Schachtner and nine other electors\u200b still cast Wisconsin&#8217;s\u200d 10 electoral votes \u2063for Joe Biden. \u2064This raises questions about the validity of the election results\u2064 and the need for tighter election integrity measures.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Evers\u200c has\u2064 a history of \u200bvetoing election-integrity reforms, and his\u2064 actions \u200bleave \u2063Wisconsin vulnerable to similar attacks on fair elections\u2064 that occurred in 2020. Experts warn that other battleground states, including Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and \u2064Pennsylvania, also need to take steps to safeguard their\u200c elections.<\/p>\n<p>One issue that\u200d has been a target for reform is the use of private funding for local election administration. After the &#8220;Zuckbucks&#8221; scandal in 2020, \u2062where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife donated $400 million to left-leaning nonprofits for election grants, many states have enacted laws to restrict or prohibit such funding.\u2063 However, governors of states like Wisconsin and Michigan have vetoed similar legislation.<\/p>\n<p>In Arizona, \u200cconcerns arise over the state&#8217;s voter rolls, which are in disarray and have \u2062not been\u200d properly maintained. This is \u200bexacerbated by the influx \u200dof\u2062 illegal immigrants into the state, with a report revealing that over 200 noncitizens have registered to vote in Maricopa County alone.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u200dballot harvesting, the practice of collecting and submitting multiple ballots, continues to be a contentious issue. While some states allow for authorized representatives to return\u2063 absentee ballots on behalf of voters, there are concerns over the security and integrity of this \u2063practice.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the actions of Governor Evers and other Democrat governors in vetoing election-integrity measures leave their states susceptible to similar problems observed in the 2020 election. It is crucial that these states take steps to ensure the integrity of their elections and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-nominee-faces-ethics-minefield-from-fathers-corporate-interests\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Nominee Faces Ethics Minefield From Father\u2019s Corporate Interests\">restore public trust<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic Governor Tony Evers vetoed a set of bills passed by the Republican-controlled legislature. These bills aimed to address concerns about the 2020 election and required absentee voters to apply for &#8220;indefinitely confined&#8221; status. 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