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John Fund of National Review Online takes aim at proposals to boost the use of mail-in ballots during 2020 elections.

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Publisher's note: The author of this post is Mitch Kokai for the John Locke Foundation.

    John Fund of National Review Online takes aim at proposals to boost the use of mail-in ballots during 2020 elections.

  • Enormous pressure is being mounted to use our current crisis as an excuse to transform how we vote in elections.
  • "Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system," Obama's former attorney general, Eric Holder, recently told Time magazine. "These are changes that we should make permanent because it will enhance our democracy."
  • The ideas Holder and others are proposing include requiring that a mail-in ballot be automatically sent to every voter, which would allow people to both register and vote on Election Day. It would also permit "ballot harvesting," whereby political operatives go door-to-door collecting ballots that they then deliver to election officials. All of these would dramatically reduce safeguards protecting election integrity.
  • But liberals see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sweep away the current system. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that a mandatory national vote-by-mail option be forced on states in the first Coronavirus aid bill. She retreated only when she was ridiculed for shamelessly using the bill to push a political agenda. But Pelosi has promised her Democratic caucus that she will press again to overhaul election laws in the next aid bill.
  • If liberals can't mandate vote-by-mail nationally, they will demand that states take the lead. Last Friday, California's governor, Gavin Newsom, signed an executive order requiring that every registered voter - including those listed as "inactive" - be mailed a ballot this November.
  • This could be a disaster waiting to happen. Los Angeles County (population 10 million) has a registration rate of 112 percent of its adult citizen population. More than one out of every five L.A. County registrations probably belongs to a voter who has moved, or who is deceased or otherwise ineligible.

    Carolina Journal Online has reported on a lawsuit in North Carolina that pursues the same goal as national Democratic Party activists.
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