President Biden’s election was free, fair and decisive. There was no widespread voter fraud despite Republican cries of a “stolen” election, accompanied by a plethora of crazy and costly conspiracy theories.
However, that doesn’t mean that no fraud was attempted or committed. In several states, Republicans sent in false slates of electors. In Nevada, a man pleaded guilty to sending in his dead wife’s mail-in ballot. In Florida, a man admitted voting twice. And Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, knowingly registered to vote using a North Carolina address where he apparently never lived.
These Trump-supporting perpetrators received no prison time and lenient penalties. Meanwhile, in Texas, a woman who cast a provisional ballot with the help of a poll worker (it wasn’t counted) was given a five-year prison sentence because she actually wasn’t eligible to vote.
To preserve American democracy, we desperately need a common set of rules for voting in federal elections so that all voices equally matter.
Kathleen Moses
Round Pond
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