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OPINION

Can Congress Ensure Fair Elections Before the 2026 Midterms?

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It seems like only yesterday that the 2nd Trump Administration re-occupied the Whitehouse. Nevertheless, focus on the midterm elections already is in high gear.

How About What Worked Previously?

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With stinging losses in 2024, what new or old tricks will the Democrats kick-start? While hemorrhaging voters at every turn, Leftist honchos will be vigilant, believing that the Senate and perhaps the House is within their grasp. As in 2020, vote manipulation, could well offer their best chances. Indeed, they managed to ‘elect’ a cognitively impaired candidate, but how so?

Professor Douglas Frank, who has taught advanced mathematics and election modeling to high-IQ students, was engaged by the Pennsylvania legislature to investigate voting irregularities in that election.

He found that the Center for Tech and Civic Life, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, spear-headed much of the manipulation of voter rolls. Dr Frank’s committee was able to convince many of the PA legislatures following the 2020 election to ditch their existing voting procedures and begin anew. However, before the changes could be initiated, the company retained to rebuild the state's voter rolls was acquired by none other than Mark Zuckerberg, and the rebuilding was cancelled.

No Intention of Fairness

The full Pennsylvania legislature, regrettably, had no real aim of addressing the problem of voter fraud throughout the state. Dr. Frank subsequently realized that many state legislatures, beyond Pennsylvania, favored having insecure elections, which helped elected representatives to retain their privilege positions.

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Both sides of the aisle he found, in some instances, were guilty. He further realized that many elections were no longer under local control, and whether or not the resulting counts were fair and accurate proved to be of little concern to those in power.

From his research and direct experience, Dr. Frank determined that elections with paper ballots accurately counted by bipartisan committees (not machines), and reported on the same day, was critical to avoid hacking; whereas any use of electronic voting equipment could be suspect. The 2026 midterms, at the state level, clearly are at risk.

Big Tech’s Crooked Ways

When voting irregularities are uncovered, the internet giants do not accurately depict the findings. If you visit Google or many other search engines and enter “election irregularities,” “election fraud,” or “election cheating,” you’ll encounter dozens upon dozens of returns saying, “debunked,” “baseless,” “wildly inaccurate,” “groundless,” “false,” and so on.

Yet, even before the 2020 election, a study undertaken by Judicial Watch revealed that 350 out of 3,244 counties throughout the U.S. – more than 10% – contained more names on their voter rolls than voting age citizens within the respective jurisdictions.

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Dr. Frank’s exploration convinced him that cleaning the voter rolls, in county after county, and state after state, was vital for free and fair elections and for our representative republic.

The Absentee Ballot Sham

It is one thing if someone is serving in the military overseas or is on travel outside the U.S. and requires an absentee ballot. It's quite another issue when people who vote by absentee ballot aren't in the military, aren't traveling, and aren't even out of their respective counties. This option lends itself to massive fraud primarily as a result of who collects those ballots.

Dr. Frank contends that electronic voting machines cannot be trusted, as Donald Trump has repeatedly emphasized. Such machines can be programmed with algorithms to inflate the voter rolls or flip votes from one candidate to another, even late in the process.

Around the world, other countries are years ahead of us. Mexico, France, and Netherlands, among others, have forsaken electronic voting and conduct elections solely using paper: hand-counted ballots filled out by individuals who display their government-issued voter identification card.

Essential and Irrefutable

For a fair and accurate vote, Dr. Frank insists on the following: Voter ID laws must be strictly maintained. Voter rolls must be cleaned and audited on a regular basis. In-person voting with a proper ID on paper ballots is the only way to ensure a non-hackable result.

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One day, voting is crucial, and there is no opportunity for anyone to manipulate vote counts following the election. Motor voter schemes should be abolished. Ballet drop boxes have no place among nations seeking free and fair elections. How quickly can we approach these common sense norms to November 2026?

Most critical: Our judicial system, on all levels, must be prepared to prosecute voter fraud cases and issue stiff punishment. When it is widely known that voting integrity must serve as the norm and that vote fraud will result in serious prison time, the problems will rapidly diminish.

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