Congratulations to John Fund, our senior fellow in election reform. His first-rate work monitoring and exposing election fraud and irregularities in states across the country, helped ensure a much cleaner election in 2024 than 2020.

But he is first to acknowledge that his work to ensure fair and honest elections is not done. Congress still needs to plug holes.

The Constitution gives primary responsibility for running elections to the states, but Congress can intervene if the facts are compelling enough.

A good start would be something like the SAVE Act, which passed the House last July with the support of five Democrats, only to die in the Senate.  Its core idea is to firmly establish that noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal. (What a concept! It speaks volumes that the Left is STILL against this.)

But there are other ideas that should supplement the SAVE Act:

• • • It should be illegal for any state, county, or precinct to accept third-party election-related funds.
    • It should be required that all absentee ballots must be received by Election Day.
    • Fixing of deficient ballots (or mail-in envelopes) should be restricted and must be fully transparent.
    • As a condition of receiving federal funds, every state must annually update its voter registration lists. Some states have gone over a decade without doing so.
    • Federal guidelines should require that vote counts take place under public observation, with not only poll watchers from all parties, but also members of the public.

Election safeguards in other countries are generally stricter than in the U.S. – but citizens in these countries don’t march around chanting “voter suppression.”

As law professor Glenn Reynolds notes: “Congress has ample authority to do all this under the Constitution, and the best time to do it is before tensions begin to build before the next election season, and when states have time to make the necessary changes.”