Mail-in voting, bloated rolls and no voter ID: Why I deny election results

By Tim Meisburger | Commentary, Chronicles

I spent almost 30 years supporting, monitoring, and assessing foreign elections, beginning in 1992 as a UN District Electoral Supervisor in Cambodia’s transitional election, and ending in 2021 as Director of the Center for Democracy Rights and Governance in the first Trump administration. As a top professional in my field, I know how to assess election integrity better than virtually any lawyer, government official, journalist, talking head, or politician.

I believe that none of the Democratic candidates elected last Tuesday should be considered legitimate, because they were elected after promoting non-transparent processes intentionally designed to prevent effective monitoring and verification. When we encountered this sort of managed obfuscation overseas, it was considered a clear indication of a corrupt election, and we must apply the same standards to assess the credibility of elections at home as we do abroad.

A large majority of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, support voter ID, and voter ID is a standard security feature of election processes in all of the world’s other electoral democracies. Yet the Democrats reject voter ID in their policy platform and fight it through relentless lawfare in clearly politicized courts.

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