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GST<\/em> has previously commented on Election Issues relative to Absentee and “Mail-In” voting. <\/a> <\/strong>
\nIn a recent Imprimis<\/a> from Hillsdale College<\/a>, John R. Lott, Jr. comments on those same issues<\/a>.
\nHe presents an interesting comparison between US laws on absentee voting and laws in other countries.<\/p>\n

Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic? <\/strong>
\nBy John R. Lott, Jr., Founder and President, Crime Prevention Research Center
\nAdapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on \u201cCritical American Elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sixteen years ago, in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform issued a report that proposed a uniform system of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in U.S. elections. The report also pointed out that widespread absentee voting makes vote fraud more likely. Voter files contain ineligible, duplicate, fictional, and deceased voters, a fact easily exploited using absentee ballots to commit fraud. Citizens who vote absentee are more susceptible to pressure and intimidation. And vote-buying schemes are far easier when citizens vote by mail. <\/p>\n

Who was behind the Carter-Baker Commission? Donald Trump? No. The Commission\u2019s two ranking members were former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican. Other Democrats on the Commission were former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton. It was a truly bipartisan commission that made what seemed at the time to be common sense proposals.<\/p>\n

How things have changed. Some of the Commission\u2019s members, Jimmy Carter among them, came out last year to disavow the Commission\u2019s work. And despite surveys showing that Americans overwhelmingly support measures to ensure election integrity\u2014a recent Rasmussen survey found that 80 percent of Americans support a voter ID requirement\u2014Democratic leaders across the board oppose such measures in the strongest terms. <\/p>\n

Here, for instance, is President Biden speaking recently in Philadelphia, condemning the idea of voter IDs: \u201cThere is an unfolding assault taking place in America today\u2014an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections, an assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are\u2014who we are as Americans. For, make no mistake, bullies and merchants of fear and peddlers of lies are threatening the very foundation of our country.\u201d Sadly but predicably, he went on to suggest that requiring voter IDs would mean returning people to slavery. <\/p>\n

But the fact is that the U.S. is an outlier among the world\u2019s democracies in not requiring voter ID. Of the 47 countries in Europe today, 46 of them currently require government-issued photo IDs to vote. The odd man out is the United Kingdom, in which Northern Ireland and many localities require voter IDs, but the requirement is not nationwide. The British Parliament, however, is considering a nationwide requirement, so very soon all 47 European countries will likely have adopted this common-sense policy.<\/p>\n

When it comes to absentee voting, we Americans, accustomed as we are to very loose rules, are often shocked to learn that 35 of the 47 European countries\u2014including France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden\u2014don\u2019t allow absentee voting for citizens living in country. Another ten European countries\u2014including England, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, and Spain\u2014allow absentee voting, but require voters to show up in person and present a photo ID to pick up their ballots. It isn\u2019t like in the U.S., where a person can say he\u2019s going to be out of town and have a ballot mailed to him.<\/p>\n

England used to have absentee voting rules similar to ours in the U.S. But in 2004, in the city of Birmingham, officials uncovered a massive vote fraud scheme in the city council races. The six winning Labor candidates had fraudulently acquired about 40,000 absentee votes, mainly from Muslim areas of the city. As a result, England ended the practice of mailing out absentee ballots and required voters to pick up their ballots in person with a photo ID. <\/p>\n

Up until 1975, France also had loose absentee voting rules. But when massive vote fraud was discovered on the island of Corsica\u2014where hundreds of thousands of dead people were found to be voting and even larger-scale vote-buying operations were occurring\u2014France banned absentee voting altogether. <\/p>\n

On the topic of buying votes, I should point out that we in the U.S. did not always have secret ballots. It wasn\u2019t until 1880 that the first state adopted the secret ballot, and the last state to adopt it was South Carolina in 1950. Perhaps surprisingly, when secret ballots were adopted, the percentage of people voting fell by about twelve percent. Why was that? Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, lots of people would get paid for voting. In those days, people voted by placing pieces of colored paper in the ballot box, with different colors representing different parties. Party officials would be present to observe what color paper each voter put into the box, and depending on the color, the voter would often get paid. Secret ballots put an end to this practice. <\/p>\n

France learned in 1975 that the use of absentee ballots led to the same practice\u2014it allowed third parties to know how people voted and pay them for voting a certain way. This same problem is now proliferating in the U.S. in the form of \u201cballot harvesting,\u201d the increasingly common practice where party functionaries distribute and collect ballots. <\/p>\n

Defenders of our current voting rules point out that in lieu of absentee voting, some European countries allow \u201cproxy voting,\u201d whereby one person can designate another to vote for him. And while it is true that eight of the 47 European countries allow proxy voting\u2014meaning that 39 do not\u2014there are strict requirements. In five of the eight countries\u2014Belgium, England, Monaco, Poland, and Sweden\u2014proxy voting is limited to those with a disability or an illness or who are out of the country. In Poland, it also requires the approval of the local mayor, and in Monaco the approval of the general secretariat. In France and the Netherlands, proxy voting has to be arranged through a notary public. Switzerland is the only country in Europe with a relatively liberal proxy voting policy, requiring only a signature match.<\/p>\n

How about our neighbors, Canada and Mexico? Canada requires a photo ID to vote. If a voter shows up at the polls without an ID, he is allowed to vote only if he declares who he is in writing and if there is someone working at the polling station who can personally verify his identity. <\/p>\n

Mexico has had a long history of election fraud. Partly because its leaders were concerned about a drop in foreign investment if it wasn\u2019t perceived to be a legitimate democracy, Mexico recently instituted strict reforms. Voters must present a biometric ID\u2014an ID with not only a photo, but also a thumb print. Voters also have indelible ink applied to their thumbs, preventing them from voting more than once. And absentee voting is prohibited, even for people living outside the country.<\/p>\n

Those who oppose election integrity reform here in the U.S. often condemn it as a means of \u201cvoter suppression.\u201d But in Mexico, the percent of people voting rose from 59 percent before the reforms to 68 percent after. It turned out that Mexicans were more, not less, likely to vote when they had confidence that their votes mattered.<\/p>\n

H.R. 1, the radical bill Democratic Party leaders have been pushing to adopt this year, would prohibit states from requiring voter ID and require states to allow permanent mail-in voting. And mail-in voting, I hardly need to point out, is even worse, in terms of vote fraud, than absentee voting. With absentee voting, a person at least has to request a ballot. With mail-in voting\u2014as we saw in too many places in the 2020 election\u2014ballots are simply mailed out to everyone. With loose absentee voting rules, a country is making itself vulnerable to vote fraud. With mail-in voting, a country is almost begging for vote fraud.<\/p>\n

If the rhetoric we hear from the Left today is correct\u2014if voter ID requirements and restrictions on absentee (or even mail-in) voting are un-democratic\u2014then so are the countries of Europe and the rest of the developed world. But this is utter nonsense. <\/p>\n

Those opposing common sense measures to ensure integrity in U.S. elections\u2014measures such as those recommended by the bipartisan Carter-Baker Commission in 2005\u2014are not motivated by a concern for democracy, but by partisan interests.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1870\" <\/a>John R. Lott, Jr., is founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from UCLA and has held research or teaching positions at the University of Chicago, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Yale University, and Rice University. He served in the Trump administration as Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he studied vote fraud. He has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, and is the author of ten books, including More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws.<\/p>\n

Click here to download a pdf of this article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Posted by GST<\/em> Chairman Ray Chadwick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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