America's Biggest Issues: Election Integrity

Contrary to the claims of many on the left, voter fraud is a very real problem. When someone commits voter fraud, the process is no longer fair, everyone’s vote gets diluted, and in some cases, election results are changed.

The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky explains that in the freest nation in the world, our system of government and our very liberty depend on free and fair elections. Whether they’re selecting a mayor or the president of the United States, every American must be able to trust the process, or the democratic system itself breaks down.

[markkelly]

The first wave of voter suppression laws that targeted Blacks in the South during the late 19th and early 20th century also hurt poor White voters and the Southern economy.

The South become an economic backwater where child labor flourished, workers were exploited and state governments did little to invest in social services and public schools for ordinary people. Such measures as poll taxes and literacy tests also prevented poor Whites from voting.

The civil rights movement that swept away the apartheid system in the South also helped White people. The fall of Jim Crow lifted the economy of the entire South. It raised the standard of living for White people as new Southern leaders abandoned racial demagoguery to invest more in social services, education and public works that benefitted everyone, Whites included.

[coreybertelsen]

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

-Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation

[Thehappy_]

Wow I am watching this for the first time on 11/8/2020..,

[Treedboxcom]

😲 The Heritage Foundation has a time travel machine!

[pantoastado]

You folks here are doing amazing, informative work. Keep it up!

[mavericks]

I would think that everything stated in this video would be a given. How otherwise would you have a fair election?

[diannetylski]

In San Diego California in the Clairemont area, we all who voted in person were given sharpies to vote with. Some say our votes will not be read. Is this true?

[pilot]

Thank You for educating the masses. What we witnessed today in DC is the result of the system not investigating, and sweeping it under the rug to save their own image.

[ReediusMaximus]

You want to make elections fair.
We need to vote on blockchain.
No way to cheat then by either party.
So whichever party freaks out and screams no way in hell are we doing blockchain voting is the party that cheats.

[Sruss]

Something WON'T let me share this! I've tried it several ways!

[bettyrobinson]

Sept 8, 2023: Here in CA, a bill to prohibit paper ballots is just about on the Governor's desk (and this is after there was much celebrating that Shasta County had despensed with their voying machines this year!)--OH, it will be passed with an "Urgency Clause" which means that it will go into effect immedialtely>>>>what now????

[iamjohnporter]

I am very concerned with the 2020 re election because of this problem.

[joycemiller]

YES WE NEED VOTERS ID, PAPER BALLOTS, ALSO THUMP PRINT OR FINGER PRINT.DO AWAY WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS.WE NEED MANY MORE TO MAKE SURE ITS HONEST!

[geoffw]

What this video fails to address it that more restrictive voting laws reduce legitimate voter participation. I'd be willing to lose 10 voters to stop one fraudulent vote. But not a thousand, or 10, 000. We need to be honest about the tradeoff.

[walterkurth]

Interesting that photo identification is required in a medical office but can't be required when voting.

[rcarlberg]

Here in Washington State we've had 100% vote-by-mail since 2011. It has been fraud-free, convenient, and safe. Anyone who tries to sell you something different is lying to you.

[johnjacobjinglehimerschmid]

1. Voter ID
2. Cross checking id's across jurisdictions
3. *NO MORE ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS*

[rogerdiogo]

Welcome to 2021, ice cream machines are the greattest issue...

[catherineweatbrook]

The data of the Heritage Foundation that published this, doesn't support this. Laughable.

[sunshine]

Hypocrites. why not get rid of electoral college and Gerrymandering as well? Oh because even though that woudl be fair it might decrease our conservative base. Sarcasm