There’s no sugarcoating a disturbing fact: Americans have lost faith in elections. Not even the corporate media, with all their pale assurances, can water down the confidence drought.
How bad is it? This bad: Just 20 percent of Americans said they were “very confident” in the integrity of U.S. elections, according to a 2022 ABC Ipsos poll. Spoiler Alert: Things haven’t changed much since.
The confidence waning started before the myriad election integrity questions surrounding the 2020 election. A Gallup poll conducted in 2019 found that, of 32 developed nations, only respondents in Chile and Mexico had more distrust in their elections than voters in the U.S. That was long before the accomplice media began pounding the narrative that confidence would be higher if not for all those “false elections claims” — such as concerns about Zuckbucks in local election administration and the unprecedented use of mail-in ballots during the manufactured Covid crisis.
A new report from the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) opens with an obvious point that has incredibly become less than obvious to some.
“A functioning democracy requires that those who elect their representatives trust the voting system in place. This means that elections must be safe and secure and that there is no doubt that elected officials were legitimately elected to their positions,” states the report, exclusively provided to The Federalist.
The paper lays out “Commonsense Solutions to Better Secure the 2024 Election.” The suggested reforms center on dealing with the explosion of absentee/mail-in voting, which surged 131 percent in Covid-stained 2020 compared to the general election just four years before. FGA says states still have the opportunity “to make the process as secure as in-person voting,” but doing so requires:
- Banning ballot harvesting
- Narrowing who can return ballots
- Banning third-party distribution of unsolicited absentee applications
- Stopping unsolicited applications and ballots by government officials
- Adopting strict guidelines for absentee ballot returns
- Requiring voter ID to cast an absentee ballot
- Prohibiting unsecured drop boxes
- Requiring absentee and mail-in ballots to be returned by Election Day
