Heritage Action for America, a conservative non-profit organization linked to the right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, will announce on Monday that it plans to spend $ 10 million in efforts to toughen electoral security laws in eight key decisive states.
The details of the effort, obtained by Fox News, will include digital and television ads, campaigns to defend voluntary issues and direct lobbying in state legislatures. Heritage Action will target Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas and Wisconsin, all considered to be decisive states after the 2020 election.
“Fair elections are essential for all political debates in the future,” said Heritage Action executive director Jessica Anderson in a statement. “We are working to help state lawmakers restore confidence in our elections, ensure transparency and protect the rights of all Americans to a fair election. This is our number one priority and we are committed to doing what is necessary.”
Officials work with ballots at Gwinnett County Election and Voter Registration Headquarters, Friday, November 6, 2020, in Lawrenceville, near Atlanta. (AP Photo / John Bazemore)
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State electoral systems were closely examined during the coronavirus pandemic, which caused blockades across the country about a year ago.
The latest contests in the Democratic presidential primaries came mainly through postal voting to limit personal contact while the virus was spreading. But Republicans said postal voting was less secure than personal voting.
States generally maintained or even expanded their postal voting systems for general elections. The rapid implementation of these processes has raised concerns about the ballot harvest, that ballots could be sent to voters who no longer live in a given location due to outdated ballot papers and more.
Changing electoral rules were some of the main complaints from former President Donald Trump and those who supported his false claims that he won the presidential election. But, despite intense scrutiny, no fraud widespread enough to override the result in any individual state has been found.
Congressional Democrats intend to make permanent some of the widespread changes that states have implemented for the 2020 presidential election.
Banknotes sent en masse are placed over direct mail in a trash can next to an apartment building in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2020. Photo courtesy of Jim Murphy.
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The bill, HR 1, would eliminate all voter identification requirements; make it more difficult for states to clear outdated voter lists; require automatic electoral registration for individuals registered with state or federal departments of a state; and the absentee vote without excuse in all states, among many other things.
Anderson said the Heritage Action state effort is partly a response to HR 1, which passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, but is unlikely to be able to resolve a 60-vote obstruction in the Senate.
“Fair and free elections are important for all Americans,” said Anderson. “While we are working to avoid taking federal elections like HR 1, voting safeguards should start with the states. That is why we are now deploying Heritage Action’s extensive base network for state-level defense for the first time.”
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Heritage Action will push for stricter rules on voter identity, citizenship verification and vote collection. It will also advocate laws that make it easier for states to clear their voter lists and for election observers to oversee the voting and counting processes.
Meanwhile, President Biden signed an executive order on Sunday aimed at increasing voter access by supporting the approval of the likely convict HR 1.
According to the White House, Biden’s executive order modernizes Vote.gov, orders federal agencies to expand access to the electoral register, provides access to voting and education for prisoners in federal custody, examines barriers for disabled citizens to vote and improves the ballot tracking for foreign voters, including active duty military.