If you have struggled to find any reason to support the Democratic Party, you are by no means alone. A new Quinnipiac poll revealed last week that 73 percent of voters disapprove of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job. Yet, somehow, the party’s candidates managed to overperform its 2024 margins in all five House special elections this year. How did they work this miracle? One clue can perhaps be found in the recent revelations about election “irregularities” in Fulton County, Georgia. During a recent hearing of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), an attorney for the county admitted that 315,000 illegally certified votes were included in the final results of the 2020 election.
Inevitably, the Democrats and their corporate media mouthpieces would denounce such a law as an attack on democracy.
The gory details of this skullduggery were first reported by Brianna Lyman in the Federalist last week on the same day the Quinnipiac poll was released. The facts, which are now no longer in dispute, throw a white hot spotlight on the urgent need for Republicans in Congress to pass a national election integrity law — even if that means killing the filibuster — that the President can sign into law well before the 2026 midterms. The facts also vindicate Trump’s assertion, during his frequently misrepresented telephone call with Georgia’s feckless Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, that an audit of Fulton County’s ballots would easily disqualify far more than the 11,779 votes that decided the state’s election. This is what Trump said:
In Fulton, where they dumped ballots, you will find that you have many that aren’t even signed and you have many that are forgeries. OK? You know that. You know that. You have no doubt about that. And you will find you will be at eleven-thousand seven-seventy-nine within minutes, because Fulton County is totally corrupt and so is she totally corrupt. And they’re going around playing you and laughing at you behind your back, Brad. Whether you know it or not they’re laughing at you. And you’ve taken a state that’s a Republican state and you’ve made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating, because they cheated like no one’s ever cheated before.
Raffensperger ignored the President. As Georgia’s chief election official, it was his duty to ensure that Trump’s concerns about Fulton County’s ballots were investigated. When the latest revelations came to light last week, Raffensperger issued this tin-eared statement: “Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots. A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.” Wrong. As 11ALIVE reports, “Ultimately the SEB voted 3-0 to refer the case to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office for possible sanctions against Fulton County, as well as requesting a $5,000 fine for each of the missing tabulator tapes — possibly totaling $670,000 or more.”
This could be interesting considering that Georgia’s Attorney General, Chris Carr, will be running against Raffensperger for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He may see the SEB referral as an opportunity to highlight Raffensperger’s failure to follow through on Fulton County’s election practices. However, Carr has also been reluctant to get involved in the ongoing turmoil created in that county. That reluctance prompted President Trump to endorse Lt. Gov. Burt Jones for the 2026 GOP gubernatorial nomination. That the resolution of election irregularities rides on the personal ambitions of local politicians is yet another reason for Congress to pass a national election integrity statute based on President Trump’s March 25th EO:
Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing … Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote.
Inevitably, the Democrats and their corporate media mouthpieces would denounce such a law as an attack on democracy. But the Constitution gives Congress the last word on how we conduct elections: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.” Well, now is the time. In addition to restoring Election Day as the final deadline for receiving ballots and prohibiting non-citizens from registering to vote, Congress must eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting as well as ballot harvesting. Finally, early voting must be limited to a maximum of two weeks prior to Election Day.
If the Republicans are serious about restoring trust and integrity in our elections, the above restrictions must be included in any election integrity law. Moreover, the statute must include severe penalties for noncompliance and a robust enforcement mechanism. Democrat-dominated cities, counties, and states routinely flout federal election law. Fulton County is certainly not an outlier. Indeed, if the above-referenced Quinnipiac poll is remotely accurate, the kind of election integrity reform discussed here would constitute an existential threat to the Democratic Party. How can a party with a 73 percent disapproval rate hold on in an electoral environment without the ability to cheat? Election fraud, for them, is a necessary survival strategy.
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