Every state must follow these laws and had to rewrite their election code to include them.
All due respect (and that is great) laws are only effective if they are observed and adhered to. If a local authority chooses not to obey a law or to follow up on reports of violations, and the federal overseers do not enforce the law or follow up on reports of lack of enforcement, then the law does not in fact exist. All that is required to render any and all of the safeguards mentioned in the essay null and void is someone who is knowledgeable enough to be able to exploit the ambiguity /vagueness of laws, or is stupid, vicious or fanatical enough to be willing to commit a crime and not worry much about getting caught later. How hard is that to find among far-left Democrats especially?
Many of the most activist Democrats are also the most radical, and therefore the most likely to be willing to commit criminal acts to further their cause.
That is the crux of one of the most fundamental issues at stake in this election - republicanism v. rule by people. The lawlessness of the current regime sets the tone for the entire nation - instead of having just the 500 some odd members of the federal government executive/legislative/judicial branch ignoring laws, we are faced largely and increasingly with an entire federal bureaucracy and countless state and local officials who also have heard the dog whistle and picked up the gauntlet of leftist defiance of the rule of law.
With questionable management of the electronic voting machines, the mechanisms by which the integrity of the votes is monitored / secured, the documentation process by which legitimate voters are demarcated apart from illegal voters, we have a potential for fraud on an unprecedented scale. Possibly not just a fraction of a percentage point but tens of percentage points or even higher in some venues.
Nobody ever went broke betting on the amorality, lawlessness and viciousness of leftists.
As magnificently exhaustive and informative as your article is, I found little in it to assuage my concerns that there is massive opportunity for fraud/corruption of the voting process or that licentious leftists will not seize that opportunity with both hands, as it were, and run with it.
Voter fraud is a crime very much like murder but with an expiration date for the statute of limitations that is only about a month long at the outside. Imagine if people could commit murder knowing that if they were not caught in a month, they would never be prosecuted!! That is essentially what we have with vote fraud. Once a total is certified and added to the official electoral college totals, there is little or nothing that anyone, anywhere can do to undue the damage.
In previous elections (Loretta Sanchez's first election comes to mind) enough fraud was uncovered POSTHASTE related to MECCHA to have invalidated the election, also a similar thing happened when the odious Al Franken got Coleman concede before enough irregularities were uncovered to have thrown the election results into serious question. Because in both cases the opponent conceded prior to that discovery, nothing could be done about the fact that California Rep. Loretta Sanchez and U.S. Senator Franken were both likely defeated by legal votes and elected by application of fraud.
In what is arguably one of the most important elections of modern history, and the level of intensity of the rhetoric of the far left in regard to their hatred (yes, manifest, pathological, psychotic, homicidal hatred) for conservatives and Republicans, it's possibly reasonable to assume that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Democrats around the nation (many in positions where they have an opportunity to commit massive vote fraud) who would risk whatever excruciatingly minute chance there is of them being caught and punished severely in order to (as they see it) prevent a political catastrophe on par with the Nazi holocaust or Pompeii (namely the election of Donald Trump to be president).
There is also the added factor that law enforcement in this nation is very much like the strong atomic force - very strong at closest proximity, but almost non-existent the further away it gets. Also law enforcement has a conflicting priority with crimes that involve one or a few people as distinct from a massive number of people.
If law enforcement becomes aware of a crime committed by one person alone, they can easily move in, arrest and place them into custody. However, if there is a massive crowd of people, small crimes observed by officers are ignored because the greater priority become crowd containment and the prevention of larger disorder. So if one person commits a crime, it can be dealt with as a crime, but if a million people commit a crime, it becomes a "social movement" and is largely and increasingly ignored by law enforcement, as witnessed by those who watched several cities being victimized by looters and rioters across the nation over the last few months and years of the Obama administration.
