It may not be the SAVE Act, but it’s something
Republicans got more serious in 2024 about trying to block the opportunity for fraud in the elections. This effort will be ramped up even further in 2026.
At least, that’s the plan:
Under former co-chairs Lara Trump and Michael Whatley, the Republican National Committee (RNC) did yeoman’s work in 2024 to build an election integrity operation which combatted election interference, ensured the polling places were not compromised, and that any irregularities and attempts to erode or block the people’s vote were immediately challenged and addressed.
Ahead of the 2026 midterms, RNC Chair Joe Gruters has plans to build even further on this with a multi-million dollar election integrity initiative across the U.S. …
“Describing the RNC as “disciplined and ruthless,” Chairman Joe Gruters revealed that the committee launched a multimillion-dollar election integrity push ahead of the 2026 midterms.
“The effort involves hiring directors in 17 states to recruit poll workers, poll watchers and election observers, while coordinating legal and Election Day oversight across key battlegrounds, Fox News Digital has learned.”
“Disciplined and ruthless” aren’t terms we usually use to describe the GOP. But both of those things are necessary. And I have to say I’ve seen more of those qualities recently than in the past, especially in terms of redistricting. Yes, Indiana and South Carolina have been disappointments in that regard, and the failure to pass the SAVE Act in the Senate isn’t good at all. But still, they’re doing better than in previous years.
Will this “election integrity initiative” bear fruit in 2026? Who knows?
Even more effective were the on-call lawyers. Observers can call the legal team if they observe any shenanigans at the polls, and the lawyers can get action to stop it as it’s occurring.
What we need, in addition, is a really effective get out the vote operation.
Not one person has gone to prison that I know except Tina Peters and she uncovered fraud in a Blue State – Colorado- and got 10 years in prison for her troubles.
The fact that there are a majority of politicians in The Senate who don’t want proof of citizenship to vote is damning.
Sorry, but I don’t believe a damn thing the GOP says at the national level.
… and I so want to be wrong. I just retired at age 79 from being a Chief Election Judge in my state. All I can tell you is the in person voting in my wife’s (also a Chief Election Judge) and my precinct went smoothly and fairly all the 20 years we worked, but that is not where the problems are in a Red State with paper ballots.
Start with the voter rolls – they are awful. Get rid of electronic voting machines. Get paper ballots with watermarks. Signature verification on absentee ballots envelopes. Date of birth on return absentee ballot envelopes. There are so many simple things you can do. We all know what to do.
The Democrats oppose all this because they cheat, always have cheated and are damn good at it.
“disciplined and ruthless” is something I never thought I’d hear describing the modern Republican party.
If they keep going like this, we might have to stop calling them the Stupid Party.
…..Yes, I voted for Trump three times and can’t remember the last time I voted for John Cornyn.
— KurtP
Yes, as I’ve been pointing out for a while, the GOP is very slowly changing, and has been since 2016. But the Old Guard hates it. The Old Guard aren’t just the literally older politicians, though it does trend that way, some very young and recently elected GOPers are Old Guard, as we just saw in South Carolina.
If you ask an Old Guard GOPer who their ideal President would be, and they’re being honest, it’ll be someone like Jeb Bush. Open borders, ‘free trade’, social liberal, ‘private profit socialized loss’, hyper-secular, the corporate business agenda.
MAGA was fed up with GWB being too establishment, the Establishment didnt like Dubya because they though he was too religious and too conservative. They wanted Jeb, even when Dubya was in power, and in 2016 they tried to set it up so Jeb got the nomination no matter what. We saw how that worked out.
Even now, they’re desperately hoping that after Trump dies or leaves office, things can go back to what they think of as ‘normal’. I don’t think that’ll happen, they’ll either get more MAGA or more radical-leftism.
But what happened in Indiana has already had a bracing effect, I suspect.
HC68
Great Comment – thanks