Lousiania Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin Is now main the nation in election integrity.
Visitor publish by Christopher Alexander with the Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group
In LACAG’s final submission on election reform, we linked to the testimony of Alex Halderman earlier than the Louisiana Voting System Fee on December 13, 2021 concerning the acute vulnerabilities of Poll Marking Units (BMDs) utilized by 90% of Americans to vote. Halderman testified that BMDs might be electronically hacked, and votes might be remotely switched from one candidate or proposition to a different, with out being detected by election officers. Halderman testified that dangerous cyber actors have tried, and proceed to strive, to electronically manipulate our votes. Halderman is joined by other prominent cyber-security experts like Andrew Appel of Princeton, Richard DeMillo of Georgia Tech, and Philip Stark of the College of California, Berkeley, all of whom suggest kicking BMDs to the curb as a common voting technique and changing it with a system of safe, hand-marked paper ballots as the one fail-safe technique of securing our vote. At this level, any Louisiana election official who resists the compelling must trash BMDs does so on the danger of their political viability. LACAG continues to encourage Louisiana residents to contact their native clerks of courtroom and registrars of voters and say “no mas” to common BMDs.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin seems to be listening to Louisiana residents. Not too long ago, Ardoin terminated Louisiana’s relationship with the Digital Registration Info System (ERIC), created by his predecessor. ERIC is a voluntary nation-wide voter registration system funded partially by leftist Globalist George Soros’ Open Society. Of the 31 member states, Louisiana is the primary and just one but to terminate its relationship with ERIC attributable to critical safety considerations concerning ERIC’s administration of voter registration data.
Marketed as a technique to offer states with an correct system of voter roll administration, ERIC has fought for many years, together with the Democrat Social gathering, towards offering its voter record upkeep information to the general public. Additional, ERIC nowhere requires that voter rolls be periodically purged to make sure accuracy, which is each odd and alarming in gentle of the very purpose for its existence. And ERIC’s personal bylaws present that “Certainly not shall the members transmit a person’s document the place the document incorporates documentation that a person is a non-citizen of america.” Why would a company charged with making certain the accuracy of voter data submitted by its member states prohibit information verifying whether or not a person is an American citizen, and subsequently eligible to vote in American elections? The reply is that ERIC is a glorified left-wing voter registration drive, managed and funded by the world’s wealthiest Globalist whose purpose is to undermine, not improve, voter integrity and transparency. Victoria Marshall’s recent piece concerning each the appreciable deficiencies of ERIC, in addition to its deep Leftist ties, is superb. LACAG applauds Secretary Ardoin’s consequential resolution to terminate Louisiana’s relationship with ERIC and return unique entry to Louisiana’s voter information to Louisiana election officers.
Additionally it is essential to notice that Secretary Ardoin just lately issued a critically essential directive to Louisiana election officers that may each additional safe the 2022 mid-term elections and, sooner or later, present a possibility to completely overview election information from the controversial 2020 election. Particularly, Secretary Ardoin’s directive requires officers to retain information “for the 2020 election, in addition to every federal election going ahead till in any other case famous.” (Emphasis added).
Each Louisiana citizen has a elementary, particular person constitutional proper beneath the First and Fourteenth Amendments to be safe in his vote, and to know that his vote reliably displays his alternative. The liberty to decide on our personal leaders in a free republic is what separates this Nation from brutal totalitarian regimes all through the world. To this finish, Louisiana law requires that its voting system have the “highest stage of election safety…”
LACAG applauds Secretary Ardoin for exhibiting distinctive management and initiative in persevering with to take steps to make sure that Louisiana election officers absolutely adjust to Louisiana legislation, thereby making certain that Louisiana is a spot whose residents might be assured that their votes are free, dependable, and safe. There is no such thing as a extra essential process.
Christopher Alexander might be reached on the Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group, www.lacag.org
