GOP Needs More Than Investigations and Outrage to Combat Voter Fraud

GOP Needs More Than Investigations and Outrage to Combat Voter Fraud

Stephen Kruiser  

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Beierweldt suddenly developed a taste for kipper snacks and a vanilla milkshake after a mentally taxing croquet match. 

Here we go again. With the midterm elections now less than half a year away, it would be nice if all we had on our minds were the classic election concerns of yesteryear, like messaging and the quality of our candidates. If the fortunes of the Republican Party were riding on regular stuff like that, I'd be throwing money at Polymarket and betting on a GOP romp in November. 

We're dealing with 21st century Democrats here, though. They don't do much in the way of developing policies that appeal to American voters in order to win elections. The strengths of the modern Democratic Party are insincere pandering and, um, tinkering with elections.

The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media repeatedly assure us that election fraud exists only in the minds of Republicans. Apparently, we have very vivid imaginations. This is from Victoria:

Do you remember that crime that never happens? Voter fraud? Yeah, it happened again, and this time, James O'Keefe got it on video. Now, federal prosecutors in California have announced they've made their first arrest in a scheme that paid bums on Skid Row to register to vote. That's a federal crime, by the way. 

Federal prosecutors in the Los Angeles Central District of California U.S. Attorneys Office on Monday announced a plea agreement — that's called a conviction — of a woman, Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, who was caught on tape more than 28 times paying people with cash or cigarettes to register to vote. She registered them to vote so they could sign petitions for which she was paid.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Skid Row denizens aren't hardcore MAGA types when sobering up long enough to cast a vote. 

The Democratic elites use all of their imagination concocting schemes like this. I don't like giving them any compliments, but they are very good at this sort of thing. I am convinced that there are people at the Democratic National Committee who never sleep and devote all of their time to coming up with new "anomalies" that they can introduce into the election process. 

The 2020 election still haunts us, especially after the four years of gloom and doom that followed it. Yesterday, Matt wrote that the Department of Justice is investigating some of those aforementioned anomalies from 2020. The focus is on Arizona and Fulton County in Georgia. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said it's taken so long to dive deeply into it because, "it takes a lot of work to uncover what happened in 2020."

It's important to try and figure out what happened in Maricopa and Fulton counties in 2020, but I wonder how much they can figure out six years later. My concern is the next election. True, we have to know what happened in the past to thwart efforts to do the same in the future. As I said earlier, though, the Democrats will always find new ways to destroy election integrity. 

Until the GOP does something concrete to shore up future elections — SAVE Act, anyone? — the Ghost of Election Fraud Past will create voter apathy on the right. I can't begin to count how many conservatives I've met who believe that, because of the Democrats' obsession with election chicanery, it doesn't matter whether they vote or not. That kind of resignation is precisely what the Dems are trying to induce. 

I am far too nervous about what could happen in November to waste any emotional bandwidth on 2020. If I were back in the activist mood, I would be organizing a rotating protest to camp outside the office door of Sen. John "Jellyfish" Thune until he either shepherded the SAVE Act into law or resigned in shame. Any anger that Republcans are still feeling about 2020 should be directed at Thune and channeled through repeated phone calls and emails to his office. 

Yes, I write about this a lot. I do it because I truly believe that we're only an election or two away from the Democrats achieving their dream of one-party rule if the Republicans don't find a way to inject some sanity into the way we elect the people who run our country. 

To be continued...

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