Why do so many Republicans suffer from the Democratic Party’s “temporary” electoral rule changes?

The cunning Democrats have used the 2020 COVID-19 catastrophe to change the way Americans choose their leaders. Democrats filed hundreds of lawsuits calling for mass mail-in ballots, early voting, late arrival of ballots and other “emergency” measures. They argued that the coronavirus was too dangerous for traditional face-to-face voting. Democratic lawmakers, such as former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, argued that the George Floyd riot was too important to disturb these microbes.

Still, the virus was so deadly that it deserved a revolution in voting practices befitting Mao Zedong. (Related: Former Rep. Jason Lewis: House Republicans Surround Vans, Target Themselves – Again)

With the 2024 election looming, COVID-19 is in your rearview mirror. In the past, ubiquitous masks only disfigured the face of a few germophobes and fanatics. Social distancing has followed the same path as hustle. Nonetheless, the Democrats’ one-time voting procedure is becoming permanent. Embarrassingly, the top Republicans now bow before them as if they were worshiping.

Governor Glenn Youngkin, a respectable Republican governor of Virginia, said: vote safe virginia. He wants Republican voters and their bipartisan supporters to practice ballot trafficking by voting early, mailing it in, and having voters hand their ballots to party activists without the adult oversight seen at polling stations.

“We need early voting this year,” Youngkin said. “You can’t make it to Election Day by a few thousand votes.”

The Republican National Committee has fully embraced this idea.announced last month bank your votesan effort to “encourage, educate, and energize Republican voters on when, where, and how to secure their votes as soon as possible through in-person early voting, absentee ballots, and ballot collection, where legal.”

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All of this is premature, at best.

At worst, it’s completely illegal.

Virginia can do whatever it wants in state and local elections, but like the RNC’s plans, it is bound by federal law. Federal Election Day is “the Tuesday after the 1st.”^cent Mondays in November of even years. This is not a passage from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, nor a passage written by Mark Twain to Ulysses S. Grant. it’s the law.

in particular, 2 United States Code § 7 manage parliamentary elections, 3 United States Code § 1 Cover the presidential ballot. These decrees cover the month of November, not October or his September.

Also, voting anywhere other than in person behind the curtain destroys the sacred secret of secret balloting. Voting at home, by mail, or through a ballot trafficker destroys voters’ confidence that only they know how they voted. Absentee voting could allow spouses, relatives, bosses, and even door-to-door political activists to somehow pressure voters to vote.

“No heart medicine, Grandpa, until I check the ballot.”

Rather than succumb to the Democrats’ COVID-19 attacks on U.S. electoral standards, Republicans should fight hard in local, state, and federal courts to overturn these “one-off special measures.”

The Republican Party should follow the party’s lead. Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF). Pilf is suing A North Dakota federal court sued to overturn a law allowing ballots to arrive 13 days after the election.

“Election Day is no longer a day,” said PILF President J. Christian Adams. “Instead, election months are set aside for states to accept ballots that arrive days or even weeks after Election Day.

(Full disclosure: PILF is representing me in a federal lawsuit aimed at overturning a New York City law allowing foreigners to vote in local elections.)

If such a tenacious and powerful lawsuit succeeds, the American people can hope for a return to electoral integrity.

And if such a case loses in the U.S. Supreme Court, only then will Republicans have to accept the Democrats’ persistent attack on America’s voting system.

Deroy Murdoch is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.

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