Final week 27 European international locations voted for his or her representatives within the European Parliament.
If you’re conscious of this, did you discover that there have been no allegations of fraud in any European nation? When you’re on the left, you may reply that there have been no such complaints as a result of the correct has accomplished higher than the left and the correct makes these complaints.
However that response has little benefit. Briefly, there have been no complaints, not to mention demonstrations, of left-wing events profitable European parliamentary elections or nationwide elections. For one more, in America, it’s not solely the correct that has complained of electoral fraud: Hillary Clinton, for instance, nonetheless claims that the 2016 election was stolen from her.
The actual fact is that, amongst democracies, America is actually alone with almost half of its inhabitants distrusting election outcomes. So, both America is cursed with a paranoid inhabitants, or Individuals have reputable causes to mistrust their election outcomes.
There isn’t any query that it’s over. America is exclusive amongst democracies in that half of the individuals mistrust election outcomes as a result of America is exclusive amongst democracies in the way in which it conducts elections.
America is nearly alone amongst democracies in demanding that voters present identification when voting. For some cause, the American left strongly opposes voter ID. It claims that voter ID is racist and that those that advocate it are engaged in “voter suppression”. It is prima facie absurd: Are airports racist for demanding passenger identification? Does passenger ID lead to “passenger suppression”? The left’s most believable cause for opposing voter ID is that it might allow a point of voter fraud. If not, is not it extremely irresponsible to lift doubts about electoral integrity amongst half the nation’s residents — for no legitimate cause? Moreover, in no different nation does the left oppose voter ID.
America is nearly alone amongst democracies in not requiring paper ballots. As of 2023, solely Brazil counts all its ballots in nationwide elections by digital voting. Based on the Pew Analysis Heart, voting is finished by manually marking paper ballots in 209 of 227 international locations. In France, as reported by the Related Press, voters “use the identical system that has been used for generations: paper ballots which are forged in individual and counted by hand.” In 2009, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court docket dominated that voting machines may now not be used. In 2017, the Dutch authorities introduced that every one ballots within the 2017 normal election could be counted by hand.
Moreover, of the international locations that use digital voting, solely america retains the supply code of voting machines secret. Three firms — Dominion, Election Methods & Software program and Hart InterCivic — management about 90% of the US voting expertise market. Every is held privately, and every is dedicated to defending its supply code from turning into fully public. Wherever else on this planet digital voting is permitted, the supply codes can be found to all political events.
America is nearly alone amongst democracies in not limiting voting to in the future. All through American historical past, Individuals have voted on Election Day (until they beforehand requested an absentee poll). The Left has erased Election Day; It is election month.
A number of American states are alone amongst democracies in sending ballots to all of their residents—that’s, even those that haven’t requested {that a} poll be despatched to them.
America is nearly alone amongst democracies within the period of time it takes to know election outcomes. In different international locations, individuals study the outcomes inside hours. All through American historical past, Individuals knew the outcomes of just about each election the evening earlier than the election. No extra.
Too typically, sadly, Individuals have reputable causes to mistrust election outcomes. Add elections to the lengthy record of establishments the left has destroyed.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His commentary on Numbers, the fourth quantity of “The Rational Bible,” his five-volume commentary on the primary 5 books of the Bible, can be revealed in November 2024 and is now obtainable for presale on Amazon. He’s the co-founder of Prager College and will be contacted at dennisprager.com.
