Protecting The Integrity Of Our Elections

Ken Blackwell

by Ken Blackwell, Contributing Author: Voting is a key constitutional right. Free as well as fair elections are vital to our republic. Voting is a correct as well as a civic duty. Our Founding Fathers entrusted “We the People” to convey a total vocalization inwards leading our dry ground into the exciting future.

Every properly registered voter has the correct to an undiluted vote. If somebody else votes to a greater extent than than once…if a non-citizen votes…that dilutes your precious vote as well as undermines the integrity of our elections.

For viii years every bit Ohio’s Secretary of State, I protected our elections. I witnessed it firsthand, over as well as over again; elections are vulnerable to fraud. I could write a catalog of ways people bear witness to “game the system” or overzealous political operatives bear witness to gain an border as well as rig an election. Safeguarding our ballot boxes is the most of import affair a Secretary of State tin produce because the assaults through voter intimidation, voter registration fraud as well as outright interference are legendary. Trust me. I know. Free as well as fair elections are non on their priority list.

In my domicile province of Ohio, nosotros require some shape of ID for voters, province ID Drivers License, Utility Bill, etc. Republicans are for it. Democrats are against it. Republicans say that voting is non effortless as well as presenting a photograph ID is a real pocket-size cost to pay for safeguarding our elections. Democrats brand the spurious claim that it is tantamount to voter suppression.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are attacking on a dissever front. They encounter a downwards ballot race every bit a golden opportunity. They are making an all-out bear witness to win Secretary of State races across the dry ground as well as they convey made Ohio their #1 target for a real skilful reason. Capturing this portion is vital to the success of their masterplan of electing a Democrat every bit America’s 46th President. No Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio. Ohio is a critical swing state. Ohio has voted for the winner inwards presidential races inwards twenty-eight out of the concluding xxx elections. As Ohio goes, as well as therefore goes the nation.

Since the Secretary of State’s portion controls the mechanism of elections, the National Democrats are making a concerted merely “under-the-radar” bear witness to win the Secretary of State’s race. The reality is, they are trying to purchase this pivotal portion amongst erstwhile US of America Attorney General Eric Holder as well as US of America Senator as well as presidential wannabe Elizabeth Warren leading the charge. They’ll convey total access to the Clinton Money Machine as well as the Obama Operation. So spell it may look foreign to witness hundreds of thousands of dollars pouring into a downwards ballot race hither inwards the heartland, at that topographic point is a method to the Democrat’s madness. Delve blow the surface as well as y'all volition encounter that the Democrats convey their sights gear upwards on 2020, defeating Donald Trump, taking dorsum the presidency as well as wining the Secretary of State’s race is a agency to that end. In the incorrect hands, Ohio’s Secretary of State’s portion volition croak a de facto arm of the Ohio Democratic Party as well as the Democratic National Committee. Eric Holder as well as a laundry listing of presidential wannabes know that. Realizing what our rivals are capable of, Republicans are on high alert. They hateful business. They’ve got millions. They don’t struggle fair. It’s that serious.

Their candidate for this high portion is Kathleen Clyde. She fits the blueprint of coming from the Far Left of the political spectrum as well as beingness loud as well as confrontational inwards her style. She is advancing the preposterous as well as obviously-unconstitutional notion that if a presidential candidate does non unloosen his/her taxes, they are at ane time as well as irrevocably kept off the ballot inwards Ohio. You tin encounter how far-fetched as well as far left her agenda is. In add-on to beingness against the Constitution, she is likewise against the Supreme Court. When the nation’s highest judicial courtroom voted 7-2 inwards back upwards of our electrical flow Secretary of State Jon Husted’s efforts to build clean upwards as well as cull the voter file, inwards a fever pitch of anger, Clyde denounced the ruling. It was a naked bear witness to gin upwards her liberal base of operations as well as proceed attracting the leftist as well as project spousal human relationship dollars that are bankrolling her campaign. Ambitious as well as aggressive, complimentary as well as fair elections are the concluding affair on her mind. Power as well as command are what Kathleen Clyde as well as the National Democrats help about.

The twenty-four lx minutes flow Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for President was the twenty-four lx minutes flow the Democrats began their 2020 campaign. The commons suspects are purported to hold upwards running: Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden. Elizabeth Warren. Senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris as well as Jeff Merkley are all considering presidential bids. Whoever the Democrats nominate volition target Ohio every bit the missing slice to the puzzle they quest to claim the Oval Office as well as therefore they tin selection upwards where Barack Obama left off. If they seize command of the Ohio Secretary of State’s portion as well as they command the mechanism of regime inwards the Buckeye State, they volition gear upwards to travel pressing their advantage. That is why Republicans are taking activeness because winning the Ohio Secretary of State’s race is absolutely vital to the integrity of our elections as well as the hereafter of our country.
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Ken Blackwell (@kenblackwell) is a erstwhile ambassador to the U.N., a erstwhile Domestic Policy Advisor to the Trump Presidential Transition Team, as well as erstwhile Ohio State Treasurer as well as mayor of Cincinnati who currently serves on the board of numerous conservative policy organizations including the Policy Board of the American Civil Rights Union. He is a contributing writer to the

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