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SAVE America Act Will Make Absentee Ballots Great Again

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator.

Most discussion of the SAVE America ACT has focused on how it would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo ID to cast ballots in federal elections. Lying Democrats claim that citizenship-confirming birth certificates are beyond the reach of mere mortals. Never mind that private and government websites help Americans order them online for home delivery. 

Also, racist Democrats argue that black and brown voters are too dense to acquire photo ID, even though tens of millions of them have drivers licenses and present photo ID daily—to rent cars, cash checks, and enter Democrat-run government buildings and campaign events.

Yet another SAVE benefit has received far less attention: It would Make Absentee Ballots Great Again.

SAVE finally would end a major “temporary” pandemic-era measure: In 2020, Democrats used the COVID-19 virus as a Trojan horse to slip in virtually every long-sought Left-wing scheme to slacken voting. These unprecedented procedures eased Democrat election theft. 

Democrats argued that social-distancing merited thin crowds at precincts. So, they harnessed new laws, court orders, and unconstitutional edicts to blastmail-in ballots across counties and states.

California, Nevada, New Jersey, and Vermont spewed ballots as if from fire hoses. Unrequested ballots went to everyone on often-outdated rolls. This included double-registered, relocated, and dead voters.

The federal pandemic Public-Health Emergency officially ended on May 11, 2023. To whatever extent these massive voting changes made microscopic sense while COVID marched through America’s institutions, those dark days brightened nearly three years ago. Likewise, the rationale for mass-mail-in ballots has vanished like airline mask mandates.

The SAVE America Act will prohibit states from air-dropping ballots on “voters,” as California did so promiscuously in fall 2022. The Public Interest Legal Foundation reported that Golden State authorities mailed 21,184,707 ballots. Of these, 10,891,525 (51.4%) were unaccounted for. As PILF explained: “Election officials do not know what happened to them.” That’s right: 10.9 million ballots vanished—nearly enough for everyone in North Carolina. 

At best, this is weapons-grade waste. At worst, with that many loose ballots sloshing around, who could trust that only legitimate ones were counted? Even the mere appearance of fraud deepens concerns about electoral dysfunction.  

The SAVE America Act should prevent mail-in ballots from landing in places such as those in Nevada where PILF discovered registered “voters”: a firehouse, an Iron Workers Hall, a head shop, a gravel-filled vacant lot, and an abandoned mine. What could go wrong? 

SAVE should spare Americans the sickening sight of sacred ballots being mailed to voters and then filling trash cans after former residents of a Las Vegas apartment complex failed to claim them.

“We don’t want mail-in ballots,” President Donald J. Trump told WKRC-TV’s Tyler Madden in Cincinnati on March 11. “We want to have it accurate, and you can’t do that with mail-in ballots.”

Trump added that SAVE would preserve absentee ballots for those who are—what a concept!—absent. These would include, Trump said, “our military, our people that are ill, people that are away. So, we’re generous in that way. But people don’t want mail-in ballots, because you have crooked elections. It guarantees a crooked election.”  

Curbing mass mail-in ballots removes the rationale for terminally opaque ballot harvesting and unsupervised, easily stuffed drop boxes. With any luck, these once ubiquitous COVID-era relics will make like Dr. Fauci and fade away.

SAVE resurrects the secret ballot. Completing mail-in ballots at home or work exposes voters to pressure and even threats from spouses, relatives, bosses, and ballot harvesters. Conversely, polling booths let voters choose with zero outside influence.

President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker’s Federal Election Reform Commission declared in September 2005: “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”

Senate passage of SAVE will terminate mass-mail in ballots in federal elections and finally place the American people within striking distance of the free and fair elections that we deserve.

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