{"id":2365673,"date":"2024-11-07T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-election-integrity-movements-work-isnt-over\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:04:25","slug":"the-election-integrity-movements-work-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-election-integrity-movements-work-isnt-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Election Integrity Movement&#8217;s Work Isn&#8217;t Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fthe-election-integrity-movements-work-isnt-over%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=2365673&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\u200b the\u2062 ongoing concerns about election integrity \u2064following the controversial 2020 election\u200c results. In the wake of these events, a diverse group \u2063of citizens, including lawyers, data \u200banalysts, \u2063and journalists\u2063 from The Federalist, have been dedicated \u200bto scrutinizing and \u200creporting on election-related issues. Despite President Biden&#8217;s attempts to\u2064 reassure the public \u2063about the electoral system&#8217;s integrity during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kemp-wins-re-election-in-georgia-governors-race-defeating-stacey-abrams\/\" title=\"Brian Kemp Wins Re-Election in Georgia Governor&#039;s Race, Defeating Stacey Abrams\">post-election speech<\/a>, many Republican voters argue that vigilance regarding election security is essential, particularly given narrow margins \u200din crucial states like Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights various incidents that raised questions about the integrity of the elections, such as issues with ballot counting in Milwaukee, Nevada&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevadas-biggest-county-nearly-40000-ballots-counted-despite-arriving-after-election-day-2022\/\" title=\"In Nevada&#039;s largest county, almost 40,000 ballots counted post-election\">law allowing mail-<\/a>in ballots without postmarks, and concerns about improperly \u200cregistered\u2063 voters in Arizona.\u2063 It also mentions \u2062specific problems faced during the recent\u200b election, including lost mail ballots in Detroit, issues with ballot scanners in Cambria\u2064 County, Pennsylvania, and last-minute changes to ballot drop-off deadlines in Georgia. The\u200d ongoing investigations into these issues underline the contentious debate surrounding election integrity\u200b that persists even after the election has concluded.  <\/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<div>\n<p>After the questionable election results of 2020, a number of people delved into the complicated world of election laws and tried to understand what happened. Was there cheating? And if there was, how can we make sure it never happens again?<\/p>\n<p>In response, regular citizens, attorneys, data crunchers, political watchers, and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-backs-down-in-a-big-way-on-2020-election-misinformation\/\" title=\"YouTube retreats on 2020 election &#039;misinformation&#039; in a major way.\">elections-focused team<\/a> of reporters at The Federalist dedicated themselves to monitoring and reporting on election issues.<\/p>\n<p>But President Joe Biden and the leftist media want to pretend that concerns about election integrity are a thing of the past after Tuesday&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope we can lay to rest the question about the integrity of the American electoral system. It is honest, it is fair, and it is transparent. And it can be trusted, win or lose,&rdquo; Biden said in his post-election White House speech on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>  &ldquo;After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent.&rdquo; a New York Times piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/06\/technology\/trump-election-denial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claims<\/a>. &ldquo;Trump supporters spent years fomenting concern about election integrity. On Tuesday, they set it all aside.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Republican voters know that the vigilant work of identifying weaknesses in our elections were vital to President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s win and must continue, especially when a few votes can vastly impact the outcome of an election.<\/p>\n<p>The tight presidential results in Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin, where this week&rsquo;s election was not untouched by troubling incidents, prove that election integrity is of utmost importance since every improperly counted ballot can have severe consequences. <\/p>\n<p>In Milwaukee, an unsealed tabulator machine caused a recount of around 31,000 absentee ballots. As The Federalist&rsquo;s Matt Kittle previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/05\/trying-to-figure-out-what-they-need-to-win-broken-seals-and-delays-draw-malfeasance-accusations-in-milwaukee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, observers found &ldquo;layers of issues&rdquo; in the counting of ballots in Milwaukee and concerns about chain of custody issues and delays in counting.<\/p>\n<p>The Federalist&rsquo;s Shawn Fleetwood previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/28\/nevada-supreme-court-orders-counting-mail-ballots-without-postmark-after-election-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> about a Nevada law that throws complications on an already complex voting system by accepting mail-in ballots with no postmark up to three days after an election. And every election, Nevada requires election workers to mail an unsolicited ballot to everyone on the state&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-all-mail-balloting-made-nevadas-messy-voter-rolls-worse\/\" title=\"How All-Mail Balloting Made Nevada&#039;s Messy Voter Rolls &#039;Worse&#039;\">active voter registration list<\/a>, so you get a ballot even if you decide to sit this election out. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) and Nevada GOP challenged the undated late ballot rule, but the court upheld the law.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Arizona election officials learned that around 98,000 voters had been registered without showing documentary proof of citizenship, Fleetwood <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/05\/arizona-officials-database-fiasco-is-still-causing-headaches-for-voters-and-election-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in another piece for The Federalist.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona and Nevada have still not declared a winner at time of publication. Nevada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/results\/2024\/11\/05\/nevada-president\/?itid=sfr_kr_nv_p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has counted<\/a> 90 percent of the vote, while Arizona has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elections\/results\/2024\/11\/05\/arizona-president\/?itid=sfr_kr_az_p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only counted<\/a> around 70 percent.<\/p>\n<p>An absentee ballot for Washington, D.C., arrived in a Michigan mailbox and addressed to someone who never lived there, Federalist reporter Logan Washburn recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/25\/washington-dc-sends-ballot-intended-for-another-voter-to-michigan-resident\/\">wrote<\/a>. Last month, Washburn <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/16\/michigans-second-largest-city-lost-an-entire-tray-of-mail-ballots-and-still-has-no-clue-where-they-went\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> the city of Detroit lost and entire tray &mdash; around 300 &mdash; mail ballots.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/four-pennsylvania-counties-investigate-suspected-large-vote-harvesting-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> a week before the election, multiple Pennsylvania counties received bogus voter registration and mail ballot requests in a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">large-scale ballot harvesting operation<\/a>. Several district attorneys were investigating it <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/25\/pennsylvania-county-believes-discovered-voter-application-fraud-connected-to-large-scale-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminally<\/a>. The election is over; the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>In Cambria County, Pennsylvania, ballots were not scanning in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/05\/ballot-scanners-stop-working-in-deep-red-pa-county-cause-unacceptable-delays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voting machines<\/a> across the county on Election Day. It tool election officials hours to fix the problem by providing new ballots that the scanner would accept. Voters who arrived when the scanners were down voted on paper and handed their ballots in to be counted by hand. It caused such delays that the county got permission from the court to extend the hours of the poll from the planned 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter Brianna Lyman<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/03\/georgia-gop-leaders-outraged-after-dem-led-counties-abruptly-extend-ballot-drop-off-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> investigated<\/a> four counties in Georgia that made last-minute policy changes to suddenly extend the ballot drop-off deadline for absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Lyman also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/04\/georgia-supreme-court-rules-democrat-led-county-cant-accept-thousands-of-late-absentee-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported <\/a>on the 11th hour Georgia Supreme Court&nbsp;case brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) that opposed Cobb County&rsquo;s plan to accept 3,000 absentee ballots after the Election Day deadline. The RNC won that case and prevented votes from coming in after Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Then there were the six noncitizens indicted in Ohio after they allegedly voted in past elections. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov\/Media\/News-Releases\/October-2024\/Grand-Juries-Indict-6-for-Illegal-Voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> the indictments shortly before Election Day 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina, a single-family home had 32 voter registrations, Breccan Thies <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/03\/more-than-30-n-c-voters-are-potentially-registered-to-vote-unlawfully-at-a-commercial-mail-service-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> for The Federalist. Most of them were registered as Democrats, he found, and many registered at that address are suspected of unlawfully voting. Some may have no connection to Lee County or even North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>There is no shortage of similar examples from this election cycle, and many more that go unreported. While some are mistakes, they show vulnerabilities in our election systems that everyone should want to fix. Corruption matters, even if it doesn&rsquo;t change the outcome, because it is a path that can be used for future cheating if not stamped out.<\/p>\n<p>In a climate where Trump was the target of assassination attempts on the campaign trail, it is clear that there is an element that would do anything to win an election, including cheating. That is why we must stay vigilant on election integrity in every election. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2020 election results raised doubts, many explored election laws to uncover potential cheating and prevent future issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2365677,"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\/11\/Election-Day-7-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14436,36525,5521,32644,33790],"class_list":["post-2365673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-activism","tag-civic-engagement","tag-democracy","tag-election-integrity","tag-voter-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Election-Day-7-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365673","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365679,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365673\/revisions\/2365679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}