What the Next Trump Administration Can Do to Improve Election Integrity
What can be done to stop the Dem Fraud Machine?
President Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 United States Presidential Election is still sinking in for many people around the Country. Questions abound about the economic policies, foreign and domestic policies, changes in the law and regulations and other changes President-elect Trump and his Administration will embrace. Looming large are potential changes to election laws and regulations.
Even as I write this the American people are waiting to see which party will control the United States House of Representatives due to a handful of states which are unable to finalize elections in a timely manner (though, thankfully, the GOP looks to be in good shape). These lengthy delays do not inspire confidence in our elections. The incoming Trump Administration will be keenly interested in protecting the integrity of American elections and, thereby, stopping the theft of American elections by what I like to call “the Dem Fraud Machine.”
What can the Trump Administration do to protect our elections? Quite a bit.
Changes to Federal Election Law Will be Minimal
There are a host of changes which need to be made to federal election law to stop election fraud and voting fraud. Changes in the law require legislation. The reality is the Republican majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives (the GOP is expected to have a small majority) and the U.S. Senate are simply not likely to be substantial enough to pass the sweeping reform needed to put an end to the Dem Fraud Machine. (I hope I am wrong about that. I plan to write another article about the changes I believe need to be made to election law, so be on the lookout for that.)
The work the Trump Administration will be able to do is on the regulatory side of the election equation and by enforcing existing law. Here are a few of the efforts I anticipate will be made (or should be made).
Change the NVRA Voter Registration Forms and Regulations
The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) is a federal law at the heart of election shenanigans. This law mandated state driver’s license applications serve as voter registration applications (hence, the name “Motor Voter Law”), among other things. I wrote about the law’s vulnerabilities in a guest post at Roger Stone's substack back in September. (Check that out. It is an eye opener.)
The NVRA required the federal government to develop a form for voters to use to register to vote for federal elections. Here is a link to the Federal Mail Voter Registration Form. Right now, this law, the regulations implementing it, and the mail-in voter registration form promulgated pursuant to it, are used to bar states from requiring proof of citizenship from prospective voters when they register to vote.
The next Trump Administration could use the federal Administrative Procedure Act (APA) to change these regulations, and the federal mail voter registration form, to require proof of citizenship for people registering to vote, or at least substantially more proof of identity than is currently required. Any such effort will be challenged in court, however, provided the changes are done in accordance with the APA and consistent with the law, the changes would stick. (Federal regulatory law is another complex area altogether, beyond the scope of this article, but in my view changes to the regulations to shore up proof of identity and/or citizenship would be permissible.)
Enforce Our Borders and Deport Illegals
The Biden Regime allowed vast numbers of illegal aliens into this Country by reversing numerous immigration policies enforced during the Trump Administration and by failing to enforce our borders. President Trump is very outspoken about the need to protect our borders, about stopping the massive influx of illegals and the need to deport the millions of illegals allowed in during Biden’s disastrous term. As President, Trump will have expansive power to fix these problems. (I plan to write another article about this as well.)
Given the fact the NVRA requires driver’s license applications to serve as voter registration applications and 19 States allow illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington), there are likely tens of thousands of illegals registered to vote in multiple states, as the data from Arizona shows. Closing the border and aggressively deporting illegals (and building the border wall to ensure they cannot just turn around and come right back) will go a long way toward preventing the unlawful use of illegals to cheat elections.
Use the NVRA to Make States Clean Their Voter Rolls
The NRVA requires states to maintain accurate voter rolls and to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible people/voters from the rolls. As people illegally in this Country are deported to their countries of origin, any who were registered to vote will need to be removed from voter rolls (otherwise, the Democrats and their leftist supporters in a host of Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs, will cast fraudulent votes on their behalf anyway).
Additionally, the extensive work done by Common Sense Elections demonstrates voter rolls in state after state are bloated with illegal registrations using vacant lots, warehouses, soup kitchens and more as addresses. These faulty addresses allow mail ballots to collect, only to be snatched up by leftists and voted.
The incoming Trump Administration can order the United States Department of Justice to aggressively enforce the NVRA’s clean voter roll provisions and take states that fail to comply to court to ensure they clean their voter rolls by removing illegal aliens and other ineligible voters, along with those with ineligible addresses.
The end result will be cleaner voter rolls with far fewer illegal voter registrations, thereby greatly reducing the ability of the Dem Fraud Machine to steal elections. (Those 3 a.m. ballot dumps the Democrats love so much are impossible to pull off if the bogus voter registrations are not on the voter rolls in the first place.)
Grant States Access to Federal Databases to Verify Citizenship
Despite the fact federal law prohibits illegal aliens from registering to vote or voting, the Biden Regime refused to grant states access to various federal databases the states could use to verify the citizenship of individuals registering to vote. The incoming Trump Administration will undoubtedly reverse this ridiculous policy and allow the states to verify citizenship through these federal databases. (In fact, hopefully the Trump Administration will promulgate regulations requiring states to use these databases to verify citizenship.)
Use Federal Rulemaking Authority to Fix UOCAVA
Another federal law vulnerable to abuse is The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act or UOCAVA (commonly pronounced “You-Uh-Cava”). The statute may be found at 52 U.S.C. §20301, et. seq. This law facilitates voting by American citizens living overseas and by US military personnel and their families stationed overseas.
I wrote a guest post at Col. Rob Maness’s substack in October outlining the vulnerabilities in this law and the potential for even non-Americans living overseas to unlawfully cast ballots using the law. This is another problem the Trump Administration could fix using the Administrative Procedure Act by adding the requirement that people registering to vote under UOCAVA provide proof of citizenship. This would require changing the Federal Post Card Application, which the law requires states to accept, to include proof of citizenship. This change will be no burden on active duty military since non-citizens are already identified on military ID by a blue field on the ID itself. (Many Americans are unaware that some non-citizens are eligible to serve in our Armed Forces.) Right now the form only requires a person to sign off stating he or she is a citizen. A simple change to the regulations would require proof of this. That would put an end to most concerns about election fraud under UOCAVA.
Stopping Leftist Illegal Campaign Finance
Another issue the incoming Trump Administration will need to tackle is the abuse of American campaign finance laws by leftist groups. Do you ever wonder how the Harris campaign raised $1 billion for a campaign that lasted just over 100 days? Or how Democrat candidates for the US House and US Senate vastly out fundraise their GOP opponents?
The answer is “smurfing” or using regular people to hide potentially illegal donations. Some leftist election fundraising organizations are using smurfing to hide illegal campaign contributions, including money from foreigners. Once again, the guys at Common Sense Elections are all over this issue using fractal technology to trace billions of dollars flowing around the world into leftist NGOs in the USA. Large amounts of these funds are fed to Democrat politicians and political action committees by falsely attributing contributions to ordinary people, as James O’Keefe reports.
A couple of enthusiastic US Attorneys with the support of the US DOJ could literally blow these fundraising schemes out of the water and, if the facts call for it, put the masterminds behind all of it in prison. That would go a long way to shutting down the Dem Fraud Machine’s illegal fundraising schemes and restoring integrity to our elections.
Conclusion
Once President Trump is back in the White House, there is a lot more he and his Administration will be able to do to protect our elections. (For instance, he will undoubtedly reverse President Biden’s Executive Order requiring federal agencies to basically function as Democrat voter registration operations. The DOJ could also investigate various different Democrat-run cities where election shenanigans happen every election.) But, what I outlined above will go a long way toward restoring integrity in American elections and leveling the playing field. Don’t get distressed if the razor-thin GOP majorities in Congress are not able to enact much of President Trump’s election integrity legislative agenda. President Trump will have the power of existing federal law and the Executive Branch of government to enforce it. That power alone will be enough to restore confidence in our elections. Just watch and see.
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