With a simple law, Congress can fix vote-counting problems, writes QuinHillyer. RestoringAmerica
the growing use of widespread early voting, especially by mail, is an invitation both to electoral shenanigans and to sheer inefficiency. “We shouldn’t have ‘election-more-than-a-month’ before Election Day and ‘election month’ after the election as well,” Fund told me.on Nov. 13, “Even if nothing inappropriate happens, the confusion and lack of security surrounding mail-in ballots generate, especially in skin-tight races, as in both of these states.
In presidential election years, it means that tight races such as Bush vs. Gore in 2000 and Trump vs. Biden in 2020 leave results in doubt so long that presidential transitions are either haphazard or delayed or both. The United States has been lucky tobe faced with an international crisis in the earliest days of a new presidency, but if it were, a bungled presidential transition could have deadly real-world consequences., although perhaps not as deadly.
Congress ought to fix all this, even while honoring the principle of federalism by leaving plenty of leeway to state customs. The Constitution says that states have primary responsibility for the “times, places, and manner of holding elections,”.” For presidential elections, Congress’s authority is even clearer, because the Constitution says “Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors.
Columnist Deroy Murdock lists a series of provisions that would strongly limit mass early voting whileit should be. Yet even for those who in the name of state prerogatives would prefer a bit more local leeway, there’s no reason Congress shouldn’t pass a law reading in its entirety as follows: “No ballot for federal elections shall be requested or accepted more than 14 days before national Election Day; and no ballot, with the exception of those submitted by U.S. armed forces or other governmental personnel and their immediate families who are officially stationed abroad on government business , shall be accepted by mail or by other means after the official close of the polls in each state on Election Day.
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