By Douglas V. Gibbs
Somewhere in a dark corner there is a group of election fraudsters snickering with delight. The Supreme Court delivered a shocking 5-4 rejection of common sense in the Watson v. Republican, basically continuing to allow those who manipulate elections to see how many ballots they need to swing an election, and then letting them suddenly appear with mail-in ballots received after Election Day to change the outcome to the one they wish. And the SAVE America Act, a law that would require citizenship verification and voter ID, continues to stall, sputter and cough in the Halls of the U.S. Senate. My dad used to tell me that if you don’t want to get yourself into trouble, don’t put yourself in that kind of position. We are in a position as a country that allows shenanigans to be pulled during our elections. If there is even a hint of a chance for election fraud to occur, it will – so it is our duty to make sure the doors that can be used to commit voter fraud are slammed shut.
It’s the constitutional thing to do – and according to Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution, the United States Congress can pass law to make sure these “anomalies” and “irregularities” on Election Day become a thing of the past.
When the Watson v. RNC mail-in ballot case was lost in the United States Supreme Court with a vote of 5-4 that Election Day doesn’t mean Election Day, it made the passage of the SAVE America Act even more critical. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is guilty of false advertising when one considers how much she claimed to be a constitutional originalist during her confirmation hearing before the Senate, sided with the anti-constitutionalists on the High Court to swing the decision against America’s best interests and wrote in the majority opinion that “federal election-day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by election day.”
This is where the wagon wheels rattle the loudest; when we let the games the Democrats and their radical allies play with language seep into our own reasoning abilities. Mail-in ballots are absentee ballots no more than illegal aliens are immigrants and drug dealers are undocumented pharmacists. We are not talking about absentee ballots. Absentee ballots are requests to vote by mail because of a situation that has made it very difficult, or impossible, to vote at the ballot box. When I was in the U.S. Navy, and I was in Mississippi in 1984 for school, I voted through an absentee ballot – a ballot, which by the way, stated on it to make sure I mailed the ballot early enough so that it was received by election day. Mail-in balloting is something different. Mail-in balloting is a holdover from the COVID insanity, allowing anyone and everyone to vote by mail, and allowing the states to mail ballots to everyone they want whether the recipient is eligible to vote, or not. Then, with a maddening chain of custody that nobody can witness, it allows batches of ballots to suddenly appear after Election Day just when they are needed to ensure certain candidates are suddenly at the last moment thrust into a position for victory. We saw it in the presidential election in 2020, and the sudden defeat of Raman over Spencer Pratt at the last moment with the counting of mail-in ballots in this year’s mayoral election in L.A.
President Trump, understanding the game that’s being played by the Left, responded to the Supreme Court’s decision, “it is more important than ever to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” which includes citizenship verification at the time of voter registration, voter ID at the ballot box, and absentee voting only in cases where somebody is disabled, ill, traveling, or deployed. “The House of Representatives has approved this vital Act, THREE TIMES,” he wrote. For some reason, the United States Senate can’t seem to figure out that voter fraud and illegal voting is a bad thing.
During oral arguments regarding the Watson v. RNC case, the Supreme Court justices seemed to look at the whole mail-in ballot, fluctuating Election Day, thing with skepticism, with Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch asking questions that had the counsel for Mississippi stammering and stuttering. In the end, those three justices, and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, decided in favor of the RNC, but Justice Barrett viewed it slightly different, and sided with compromised Chief Justice John Roberts and the three anti-constitution justices (Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson).
So, now, here we are ready to enter the 2026 Mid-Term Elections with electoral security hanging by a thread. We’ll surely see more lost ballots, found ballots, surprise ballots, signature mismatches, and unverifiable chains of custody – and sudden unexpected electoral reversals where we go to bed thinking someone has a landslide lead only to find out that just enough mail-in ballots appeared after the polls closed, changing the outcome leftward during those final hours while the mail-in ballots were being counted.
Without clear rules, applied uniformity, and a chain of custody that doesn’t run wild like a line of geese chomping on crumbs heading into the woods, we not only lose the public’s trust in elections, but we continue to provide opportunity for election fraud. Making Election Day an elastic window, and who gets to vote a literal free-for-all, elections mean nearly nothing. In its current flawed state it has become a procedure that looks like it is the voice of the people, but it’s really a tool for those trying to bring down our country to make sure they get into power the puppets they most desire.
Safe and secure elections require common sense rules, strict procedures, and tight guardrails. As Justice Alito in his dissenting opinion of Watson v. RNC wrote, the ruling of Watson makes Election Day a little more than an “abstraction,” and it “compounds these vulnerabilities.” And while the argument that the SAVE America Act is dead in the Senate seems to be the one floating through the halls of government the most, that doesn’t mean you stop fighting for it…a comment I direct at the Republican Senators who have been criticizing Republicans like Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) for pushing the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) says the only way to pass the bill would be to nuke the filibuster – a bad idea on its face. But, help might be sort of on the way. President Donald Trump has stated he will not sign any legislation until the SAVE America Act is passed, and the U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner has indicated that if any states decline to furnish the federal government with its absentee voter list, the United States Postal Service would simply not mail election ballots in that state.
The hope is that we get some kind of election integrity for the upcoming November election, win the seats we need, and then get the laws passed to ensure the cheating stops. We have to, because God help us if the Democratic Socialist Democrats who seem to be trying to take over the Democratic Party gets into full power through manipulating the final tallies in the next few elections. If the commies accomplish that, America will fall hard and spend the next century trying to figure out how to climb out of the communist hole that is destroying it.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
