{"id":2235239,"date":"2024-05-02T07:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-talk-to-your-normie-neighbor-about-election-integrity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T07:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T11:35:44","slug":"how-to-talk-to-your-normie-neighbor-about-election-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-talk-to-your-normie-neighbor-about-election-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Discussing Election Integrity with Your Non-Political Neighbor"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fhow-to-talk-to-your-normie-neighbor-about-election-integrity%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=2235239&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>The article discusses election integrity, comparing it to food production. It highlights public concerns\u200d about the upcoming elections&#8217; transparency and the importance of free and fair elections. It emphasizes the need for clear election laws to prevent fraud\u2064 and ensure legitimate \u200dvotes count. The article stresses the significance of voter verification\u2062 to maintain the sanctity \u200bof the electoral process.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Election administration is like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-food-crisis-potato-chips-and-candy-at-risk-over-export-freeze\/\" title=\"Global Food Crisis: Potato Chips and Candy at Risk Over Export Freeze\">industrial food production<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-you-should-out-yourself-as-a-conservative\/\" title=\"Why You Should Out Yourself As A Conservative\">average person doesn\u2019<\/a>t really know \u2014 or care to know \u2014 how the sausage gets made, but he cares very much the moment it smells fishy.<\/p>\n<p>A Morning Consult poll commissioned by the Public Affairs Council last fall <a href=\"https:\/\/pac.org\/poll-americans-concerned-about-honesty-openness-of-2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that just 37 percent of Americans believe the 2024 election \u201cwill be both honest and open to all eligible voters.\u201d A University of Central Florida exit poll in January <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usf.edu\/arts-sciences\/departments\/public-affairs\/documents\/news-items\/spa-election-survey-series-p1-results-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">found<\/a> that a third \u2014 33.5 percent \u2014 of voters were either \u201cnot very\u201d or \u201cnot at all\u201d confident the 2024 election would be conducted fairly.<\/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__b89e9-505807800\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d35e4b718523e1c6d280aa56a6172c56 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d35e4b718523e1c6d280aa56a6172c56\"><\/div>\n<p>Many Americans instinctively recognize that without free and fair elections, our representative government and the freedoms it guarantees are jeopardized. And yet, start talking with your neighbors about the nuances of election law and administration (or just mention the word \u201caudit\u201d or \u201cprovisional ballot\u201d) and their eyes probably glaze over. <\/p>\n<p>Some are terrified of being slapped with the idiotic but intimidating smear of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/22\/the-election-denier-smear-is-the-dumbest-rhetorical-device-in-modern-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election denier<\/a>.\u201d The corporate media have done their best to elevate the small minority of outlandish conversations about election security while pretending sincere and articulate concerns don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to be a legal expert to understand the most fundamental things about what makes elections free and secure. If you can articulate these five basic points, you\u2019re already way ahead of the majority of corporate media.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chaos Is Bad<\/h2>\n<p>Confusion creates opportunities for both intentional <em>and unintentional<\/em> wrongdoing. Lax policies that make it more likely election officials don\u2019t know who a voter is, where he lives, whether he is eligible to vote, or even whether he has already voted invite chaos and undermine order. Bad actors can more easily take advantage of bad election laws, and innocent Americans can also unknowingly err when the rules aren\u2019t clear and precise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dc49f6df3500c35ba1fc9a9a51ba99fd fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-dc49f6df3500c35ba1fc9a9a51ba99fd\"><\/div>\n<p>When ballot traffickers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/08\/wisconsin-supreme-court-drops-hammer-on-2020-election-shenanigans-ballot-drop-boxes-are-illegal-under-wisconsin-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dump<\/a> piles of ballots they\u2019ve supposedly collected from individual voters into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-and-andy-schlafly-drop-box-dems-take-another-election\/\" title=\"John and Andy Schlafly: Drop-Box Dems Take Another Election\">unsupervised ballot boxes<\/a>, it complicates each ballot\u2019s chain of custody. When voter registration forms are automatically and indiscriminately <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/16\/why-did-this-left-wing-elections-group-send-an-iraqi-refugee-a-voter-registration-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mailed<\/a>, including to people who aren\u2019t eligible to vote, it creates room for error or misuse. When voter rolls are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/08\/exclusive-see-the-grave-markers-of-long-dead-residents-listed-on-michigans-voter-rolls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bloated<\/a> and never cleaned, it makes elections messier and therefore less secure.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Illegitimate Votes Cancel Out Legal Votes<\/h2>\n<p>If the right to vote is sacred, that surely includes a voter\u2019s right to know his vote will count. But when laws are bent or relaxed to allow votes that shouldn\u2019t be counted, those votes dilute the votes of legal Americans. <\/p>\n<p>Do you think a foreign national who lies on his <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/12\/elon-musk-rightly-says-arizona-doesnt-verify-federal-voter-citizenship-but-the-feds-dont-let-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voter registration form<\/a> should be able to cancel out your vote? How about a person who lives in a different state but used the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/05\/why-are-republicans-advancing-a-bill-that-lets-outsiders-buy-a-south-dakota-address-and-use-it-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">address<\/a> of a mail-forwarding service in your state to cancel out your vote for your local school board? Or a vote that a nursing home employee <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/wisconsin-elections-commission-shattered-laws-by-telling-nursing-home-staffers-to-illegally-cast-ballots-for-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cast<\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/03\/wisconsin-special-counsel-finds-widespread-election-fraud-in-2020-nursing-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for<\/a>\u201d a mentally incapacitated resident? <\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t really care about voting rights if you don\u2019t see a problem with the votes of eligible Americans being canceled out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c8b70aa1f62db76546825b8881074c99 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c8b70aa1f62db76546825b8881074c99\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">If Someone\u2019s Vote Is Going to Cancel Out Yours, He Should Verify He Is Eligible to Vote<\/h2>\n<p>To avoid these illegitimate votes, some sort of verification process is required. Because people often lie, documentary evidence is generally the best way to prove a person really is who he says he is. That\u2019s why voter ID is <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/403052\/eight-americans-favor-early-voting-photo-laws.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Each vote ultimately has the potential to affect how you are governed. If enough of your neighbors vote to raise your taxes, your tax bill goes up. If enough of your neighbors vote to criminalize jaywalking, your rogue street-crossing habits can get you slapped with a fine or even thrown in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnodefense.com\/blog\/2022\/december\/can-you-be-arrested-for-jaywalking-in-california\/#:~:text=In%20California%2C%20jaywalking%20is%20considered,than%20at%20an%20established%20crosswalk.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jail<\/a>. Anyone who wants this kind of power over you should be able to comply with common-sense provisions that require him to show who he is, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/23\/strong-voter-id-laws-confirm-not-just-who-you-are-but-where-you-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">where he lives<\/a>, and that both of those factors make him eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No One Else Should Be Responsible for Your Act of Self-Governance<\/h2>\n<p>There was a time when voters went to their polling place on Election Day, received a ballot, filled it out with a pen, and turned it in. These voters didn\u2019t worry that their ballots might get lost, stolen, or delayed in the mail, or rejected for a missing signature or date. They didn\u2019t worry about a ballot in their name that they never requested being automatically sent to whatever new resident might now live at their old address. They didn\u2019t entrust their ballots to political operatives who go house-to-house and collect voters\u2019 ballots by the bundle. <\/p>\n<p>This process also required voters to take some kind of responsibility for their roles in governing themselves. You had to be invested enough that you remembered to vote and got to the polls (or requested an absentee ballot). You might even have had to register to vote instead of being registered automatically. Voting was a more intentional affair than filling out a customer service survey on your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some voters will be out of town on Election Day and need an absentee ballot, or some may have physical restrictions that keep them from heading to their polling place. There\u2019s nothing wrong with laws accommodating these exceptions. But when the voting system makes third parties more responsible for the casting of your ballot than you are, it cheapens your participation in self-governance.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant<\/h2>\n<p>When media outlets mock or belittle voters\u2019 sincere concerns about election integrity, you should wonder why they don\u2019t want you asking any questions. When bureaucrats <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-mexico-voter-rolls-court-0045d0b5d8347b0a5394daefbd3f9a00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refuse<\/a> to turn over voter rolls to good government groups, or when political operatives <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/04\/court-2020-challenges-to-georgias-voter-rolls-do-not-constitute-voter-intimidation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drag<\/a> private citizens who raise concerns about election administration into court, what are they trying to hide or silence? <\/p>\n<p>When ballot counters <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/01\/michigan-poll-workers-testify-on-election-violations-calling-detroit-ballot-counting-a-madhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">force<\/a> volunteer poll watchers to stand so far away they can\u2019t meaningfully observe tabulation, or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/07\/no-the-georgia-vote-counting-video-was-not-debunked-not-even-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">allegedly<\/a> tell them to go home and then secretly start counting ballots again, what is it they don\u2019t want the poll watchers to watch? When people push for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevertrumps-latest-attempt-to-dismiss-election-concerns-is-particularly-dishonest\/\" title=\"NeverTrump\u2019s Latest Attempt To Dismiss Election Concerns Is Particularly Dishonest\">unsupervised ballot drop boxes<\/a>, what behaviors don\u2019t they think need to be supervised?<\/p>\n<p>A good indicator that <em>something<\/em> is being hidden is the fact that someone is trying to hide it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-48dd6966c0546c5971a4e7a928712f4f fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-48dd6966c0546c5971a4e7a928712f4f\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election administration is akin to industrial food production. Most people are unaware of the process intricacies unless something seems off. A Morning Consult poll for the Public Affairs Council revealed only 37% of Americans have faith in the system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2235240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/voted.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/voted.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235239","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}