Photo: Presidential campaign visit by William Jennings Bryan to Tekoa, Washington, 1896 – DPLA – f931b633e7ac13e5f3c44df48e34413c; public domain, cropped
This year, the RNC has been putting in lots of work to ensure that the presidential election is a fair one. Although it is the Democrats that often talk about protecting our democracy, they are doing little in the way of ensuring the democratic process operates the way it’s supposed to.
Michigan and Nevada, two must-win states for both Trump and Biden this year, have been slow in purging their election rolls of people who died or moved away. The RNC compared census data to voter registration and found huge discrepancies, and then the RNC sued to enforce the federal law that requires these states to eliminate the phony voters.
Overpaid consultants do not win elections; it’s volunteers who win elections. More than half of the fundraising by RNC and Donald Trump for the month of April came from small dollar donors, and these grassroots are who need to be mobilized to overcome the monetary and media advantages held by Democrats.
In 2020 liberals sued and then obtained court orders in their favor to invalidate good election laws, and they are suing again in this cycle in places like the pivotal must-win state of Wisconsin. A lawsuit by progressives in Wisconsin seeks to toss out a reasonable law that requires all ballots to be counted by 8 pm the evening of Election Day.
The RNC sought to intervene to defend this law, stating that it establishes “appropriate safeguards and transparency while still offering voters ample opportunities to cast a ballot.” Lawsuits like this should not be decided without the full participation of the affected Republican Party, but a state court unjustifiably blocked the RNC and the local GOP from intervening.
Some may wonder if Republican polling leads will be enough to overcome a predictable repetition of ballot harvesting, drop-box ballot dumping, and unverified mail-in signatures by Democrats. In the key swing states of the last two election cycles, oversight was not allowed by poll watchers who monitor signatures on millions of mail-in ballots. That must change to protect our elections.
