It wasn’t so long ago that good-government Democrats wanted to stop voter fraud. In 2002, a Democratic Senate and GOP House passed the Help America Vote Act, which Democratic sponsor Senator Chris Dodd said would “make it easy to vote and hard to cheat.”

Now Democrats want the first half of that and denounce anything to “make it hard to cheat” as voter suppression.

But cheating – even by the top brass in the Democratic Party is clearly on the rise.

Last week in Bridgeport, Connecticut, city councilman Alfredo Castillo, and Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chairwoman of the city’s Democratic Party, were charged with ballot fraud and “tampering with a witness.”

In 2023 Geter-Pataky and others were caught on surveillance cameras dropping stacks of absentee ballots into drop boxes.

Also last week, Michigan Judge Christopher Yates, who was appointed by Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, declared that Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson acted unconstitutionally when she told local officials that on mail-in ballots “voter signatures are entitled to an initial presumption of validity.” This was a blatant attempt to undermine signature verification requirements.

Now for the good news. Conservatives are making voter integrity a high priority this go around, as reported by The Daily Caller:

“States like Ohio, New Hampshire, and North Carolina have beefed up voter-ID laws and steamrolled their opponents in court. In other states, litigants have secured the integrity of mail-in voting — take Pennsylvania, where officials will finally be enforcing longstanding state law that requires voters to both sign and date their mail-in ballots…..Wisconsin courts have upheld requirements for witness certification on absentee ballots, and an Arizona court has confirmed that voters must rectify unsigned early ballots by 7:00 pm on Election Day.”

Further, over 28 states have ended the practice of private foundations donating money to fund election office procedures. In 2020, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated over $400 million to such efforts.

It looks to us that we will have a more honest election process in 2024 than in 2020, which the New York Times actually labeled “one of the cleanest elections” in modern times.