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April 28, 2026 at 3:38 PM

Do Election Integrity Laws Make Red States Less Vulnerable to the Blue State Influx?

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Election fraud is worse than it used to be. With the advent of electronic voting, ballot drop boxes and a massive increase in mail-in voting, it's easier to pull off.

Many of the COVID-inspired legal changes implemented for the 2020 election have never been repealed. Some of those laws are unconstitutional.

The exodus from blue states to red states is interesting when you look at the effects. Some of those red states are turning blue as a result - others are not. What explains the difference? Could it be election integrity policies? Colorado has gone completely blue. Arizona and Georgia are trending blue. Florida and Texas, on the other hand, are safely red.

Arizona requires proof of citizenship, but Maricopa County has notoriously corrupt election officials. Georgia has Fulton County.

315,000 illegal votes have been found in Georgia, not surprisingly, in Fulton County. They were flagged as the result of procedural errors that don't necessarily mean the votes themselves are illegal. That happens every now and then, but 315,000 of them? And of course, there is Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is running for governor. It would be ironic if Raffensperger got nominated and then lost due to voter fraud.

Colorado has 100% mail-in voting, same-day registration and no voter ID. Efforts to change this arrangement are furiously resisted by elected officials.

After trending blue for a while, Florida cleaned up its voter rolls and implemented voter ID requirements. Now it is red. Coincidence? Texas has also developed strong voter integrity protection.

I thought that maybe the blue shift in Texas and Florida was smaller - or nonexistent- because they were larger states. But it turns out that they have the largest in-migration numbers, too.

Why are Democrats terrified of the SAVE Act? Do strong voter integrity laws make a state redder? Would they make a state less affected by an influx of blue-state voters? Just how dependent on fraud are the Democrats?

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    GLDIII Purveyor of Splendid Malpropisms@GLDIII·24w
    BastiatJunior (View Post):
    Just how dependent on fraud are the Democrats?

    To ask is to answer. Given the near insane measures the Dems are willing to proclaim and insist on should be clear.

    I was a Republican chief Election official for a very blue precinct in Maryland for 12 years. That was three cycles with primaries. Two included the ringing in and keeping of the Light Worker®️. Even with the record turn out only ~65% of the registered voters in my blue, blue, precinct showed up to cast their historic vote. A perusal of the roles, I could find many deceased members of my family, (and I know there deaths were reported to the voter officials, I filled out their cards well before those elections). I also noted addresses I knew could not have a residences (food banks, 7/11's, a laundry mat, etc...) I suspect the Dems want a swollen voter role in order to obfuscate when they need to stuff the ballot boxes (just ask Ellen Sauerbrey, who was ahead until she wasn't after the polls close and two counties manage to cough up enough votes "to win").

    So you tell me how important it is for them to regain, and never lose power again, especially when the demography isn't looking to favorable in the next census.

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    BastiatJunior (View Post):

    Why are Democrats terrified of the SAVE act?

    Because democracy requires that dead people vote in alphabetical order.

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    Saint Augustine@SaintAugustine·24w
    BastiatJunior (View Post):

    Election fraud is worse than it used to be. With the advent of electronic voting, ballot drop boxes and a massive increase in mail-in voting, it’s easier to pull off.
    Many of the COVID inspired law changes that were implemented for the 2020 election have never been repealed. Some of those laws are unconstitutional.

    Yes.

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    Tex929rr@Tex929rr·24w

    You are definitely on to something. We have had to show a photo ID to vote in Texas since 2012. And we still have voter fraud cases.

    We will never know how badly mail voting and all the other COVID voting measures skewed the 2020 election.

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    Tex929rr (View Comment):

    You are definitely on to something. We have had to show a photo ID to vote in Texas since 2012. And we still have voter fraud cases.

    We will never know how badly mail voting and all the other COVID voting measures skewed the 2020 election.

    The sheer number of popular votes Biden got reeks of impropriety . . .

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