We need electoral integrity.
Friend,
Kansans have been watching for more than a month as swing states counted votes, experienced lead changes, and were the subject of lawsuits. We've also heard about election irregularities, electronic voting system vulnerabilities, and signature verifications. To many, all of these variables open the possibility of election fraud.
While most of the talk has been about the presidential election, I want to point out that election integrity matters up and down the ballot. Take a look at a congressional district in New York.
Republican candidate and former Congresswoman Claudia Tenney led her Democratic opponent Anthony Brindisi by 28,422 votes. However, New York's mail-in ballot laws allow ballots to be received and counted long after Election Day. Today, Tenney leads by only 12 votes. New York has certified all of their elections except this one.
Why?
One reason is that Chenango County found 55 uncounted ballots. These ballots were "misplaced." That's in addition to Oneida County informing a New York judge that they had placed sticky notes on absentee ballots with information as to why they were being challenged. But those sticky notes are now lost.
As a nation, we need to have confidence in our electoral process – whether it's an election for the president, member of Congress, or dog catcher. Real stories like the one in New York only reinforce the belief that election mistakes and fraud are real possibilities.
Kansas has done an exceptional job over the last few decades of ensuring we have safe, fair and free elections. We validate signatures and check ID. We make every effort to only count legal ballots. Unfortunately, that doesn't happen in every state, and if a county election office can misplace 55 ballots or lose sticky notes in a race that is separated by just 12 votes, it's not unreasonable for citizens here in Kansas and across the county should wonder what might happen on a larger scale and want to ensure the most recent and future elections are safeguarded against mismanagement, mistakes, hacking and intentional fraud.
I signed onto an amicus brief last week that encouraged the Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit from Texas. As you probably already know, the Supreme Court would not hear the case. I'm not looking to overturn a free and fair election, I want to uphold the Constitution of the United States, find the truth and ensure that every legal vote is counted and any illegal vote is discarded.
The left was quick to chastise and harass anyone who supports seeking the truth, but they quickly forget that we've spent the last four years hearing about Russian collusion, seeing around 70 Democrats boycotting President Trump's inauguration and watching the Resistance relentlessly bully anyone supporting the most pro-life, pro-America president in recent history.
It's been 41 days since Nov. 3, 2020. But we are only 694 days away from the 2022 midterm elections and 1,422 days from Election Day 2024. I'm committed to bringing confidence, accuracy and transparency to our upcoming elections, and I won't stop fighting for the voices of patriotic Kansans.
President Lincoln ended his Gettysburg Address saying, "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Sincerely,
Rep. Ron Estes
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