On the issue of "Election Integrity"
Sep 22, 2022 06:28:24 #
For quite some time now, I've been wondering how the issue of "election integrity" could get so weakened and inept, almost by design.
While reading the following article ( https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-grassroot-election-integrity-movement-sweeps-battleground-states_4740686.html?src_cat=Morningbrief&src_cmp=mb-2022-09-22&est=YvEp9wvYUQnZA6FIUAzKsgT%2B1mtjn0MQeR3IXAPwZJpNZi0vTEcSgE8dWvog%2BCnj ), it turns out, that this may not be that far from the truth.
Consider the following:
"The RNC, the powerhouse and teller machine of Republican initiatives, was legally barred from organizing and sponsoring ballot security operations like poll watching from 1982 to 2018, due to a 1982 consent decree (pdf) issued by Dickinson R. Debevoise, a judge appointed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
This has been consequential. The consent decree meant that for nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a structural advantage over the RNC in strategizing and developing election administration infrastructure in accordance with its vision of how voting should be done.
“Because of the DNC v. RNC Consent Decree, the RNC had been shut out of most election integrity efforts for nearly four decades, which led to a lack of institutional knowledge to conduct election integrity operations,” the RNC’s 2021 election integrity report reads (pdf).
After the consent decree expired in 2018, the RNC began building infrastructure around election integrity projects. This includes spending more than 30 million on election protection efforts in battleground states across the country during the 2021 cycle, and continued building election security infrastructure for the 2022 cycle, Vaughn told The Epoch Times."
The article goes on to discuss the "two competing ideologies", one held by the right and another by the left, on how voting rights should be protected in a democratic society.
As articulated by J. Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth A. Klukowski in a paper (pdf) in the Yale Law & Policy Review, improving access to voting (making voting more convenient) and improving ballot security (placing more burden on the individual voter but prioritizing the integrity of the voting process) often come into tension. The left leans toward the access approach, and the right leans toward the security approach.
As evidence that this balance is tilted disproportionately towards the left’s agenda, Mitchell pointed to reports by Capital Research Center (CRC), which allege a “coordinated effort” by the left to influence elections via private donations and dark money networks, such as the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s left-leaning non-profit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).
Notably, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, funneled via the CTCL $400 million to a network of nonprofits that sent advisers to local election offices across the country to become directly involved in election administration in 2020.
Critics of the CTCL like Mitchell say its maneuvers are outright election manipulation.
Those on the left have been very successful in controlling the "convenience" over "election integrity" debate. And why not, they have the media, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and most agencies of the federal government in their corner. So, now the question remains, "what are we going to do about it"?
While reading the following article ( https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-grassroot-election-integrity-movement-sweeps-battleground-states_4740686.html?src_cat=Morningbrief&src_cmp=mb-2022-09-22&est=YvEp9wvYUQnZA6FIUAzKsgT%2B1mtjn0MQeR3IXAPwZJpNZi0vTEcSgE8dWvog%2BCnj ), it turns out, that this may not be that far from the truth.
Consider the following:
"The RNC, the powerhouse and teller machine of Republican initiatives, was legally barred from organizing and sponsoring ballot security operations like poll watching from 1982 to 2018, due to a 1982 consent decree (pdf) issued by Dickinson R. Debevoise, a judge appointed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
This has been consequential. The consent decree meant that for nearly 40 years, the Democratic National Committee had a structural advantage over the RNC in strategizing and developing election administration infrastructure in accordance with its vision of how voting should be done.
“Because of the DNC v. RNC Consent Decree, the RNC had been shut out of most election integrity efforts for nearly four decades, which led to a lack of institutional knowledge to conduct election integrity operations,” the RNC’s 2021 election integrity report reads (pdf).
After the consent decree expired in 2018, the RNC began building infrastructure around election integrity projects. This includes spending more than 30 million on election protection efforts in battleground states across the country during the 2021 cycle, and continued building election security infrastructure for the 2022 cycle, Vaughn told The Epoch Times."
The article goes on to discuss the "two competing ideologies", one held by the right and another by the left, on how voting rights should be protected in a democratic society.
As articulated by J. Kenneth Blackwell and Kenneth A. Klukowski in a paper (pdf) in the Yale Law & Policy Review, improving access to voting (making voting more convenient) and improving ballot security (placing more burden on the individual voter but prioritizing the integrity of the voting process) often come into tension. The left leans toward the access approach, and the right leans toward the security approach.
As evidence that this balance is tilted disproportionately towards the left’s agenda, Mitchell pointed to reports by Capital Research Center (CRC), which allege a “coordinated effort” by the left to influence elections via private donations and dark money networks, such as the Arabella Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s left-leaning non-profit, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL).
Notably, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, funneled via the CTCL $400 million to a network of nonprofits that sent advisers to local election offices across the country to become directly involved in election administration in 2020.
Critics of the CTCL like Mitchell say its maneuvers are outright election manipulation.
Those on the left have been very successful in controlling the "convenience" over "election integrity" debate. And why not, they have the media, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and most agencies of the federal government in their corner. So, now the question remains, "what are we going to do about it"?
Sep 22, 2022 07:56:44 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
ACP45 wrote:
For quite some time now, I've been wondering how t... (show quote)
Sep 22, 2022 08:01:03 #
Oh boy, Bad Bob, you've really outdone yourself. Your biting wit and sarcasm knows no bounds! Your logical argument to my post will be admired by all! Congratulations
Sep 22, 2022 08:07:43 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
ACP45 wrote:
Oh boy, Bad Bob, you've really outdone yourself. Your biting wit and sarcasm knows no bounds! Your logical argument to my post will be admired by all! Congratulations
Sep 22, 2022 08:22:59 #
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