With Election Day less than a month away – and hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots already returned – the respected Gallup Poll has some sobering news. Only 57% of Americans are very or somewhat confident that their votes this year will be accurately cast and counted. The percentage who say they are “not at all confident” in the vote is now 19%. As recently as 2008, that number was only 6%.
While there is a clear partisan divide, even 47% of independents and 21% of Democrats tell Gallup that “people using illegal or fraudulent means to cast invalid votes” are a real problem.
Despite such findings, the mainstream media seems intent on dismissing concerns about election integrity.
Yet in August, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin removed 6,303 noncitizens who had “accidentally or maliciously attempted to register” to vote. In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has announced that over one million people have been removed from the state’s voter rolls, including people who moved out-of-state, ineligible or are deceased. Some 6,500 were potential non-citizens including 1,930 who had a history of voting.
Meanwhile, the liberals in Congress have voted down voter ID requirements. Joe Biden says there is no voter fraud to prevent.
Americans deserve to have an electoral process that they can trust and that protects their most sacred right. They are increasingly telling us they believe the integrity of that process is imperiled.