A Citizen’s List of ‘Common Core’ Actions for Election Integrity

Fair and honest elections are absolutely essential for the ongoing survival of the American constitutional republic.

By Paul S. Gardiner

This article offers a list of seven suggested “common core” actions deemed essential for election integrity. These actions need to be accomplished by state legislatures prior to the upcoming November 2022 congressional elections. Most, if not all, of the suggested actions could possibly be included in a single, comprehensive regulation or item of legislation, etc. (It is recognized that some legislatures most likely will not favorably consider many of the suggested “common core” actions, but concerned citizens should try to convince them!)

Various news reports and conversations between the author and numerous Americans of differing backgrounds, professions, and ages all indicate a very strong, urgent demand for fair and honest elections, especially national elections. Americans want their votes to be correctly counted, and they want to trust that ballot tabulations are honest without fraud, cheating, or manipulation by foreign entities.

Fair and honest elections are absolutely essential for the ongoing survival of the American constitutional republic. Without such elections, the American republic will be in serious jeopardy, most likely resulting in continual one-party rule and, as history shows, eventual totalitarianism.

Most Americans realize that the United States Constitution assigns the 50 state legislatures the responsibility for determining and managing voting procedures and regulations for national elections. If citizens are dissatisfied with how voting and vote tabulation is accomplished in their state, they should strongly and effectively voice their grievances to their state legislators along with a list of corrective actions for the legislators to take.

The following seven actions are suggested as a “common core” for election integrity in national elections. As such, citizens need to effectively press (lobby) their state legislators to accomplish the actions prior to the 2022 elections:

1. Require and provide for voting and vote tabulation to be accomplished by paper ballots that will be manually hand-counted. (No use of electronic voting and vote tabulating capability. Future use of electronic voting and tabulation is dependent on adequate, comprehensive testing and security certifications of the intended machines and software.)
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