A New Hampshire law protecting the integrity of elections is being challenged in court by Democrats and the Biden administration as a threat to voting rights. The reality is that the law is a threat to Democratic tactics used to win elections illicitly. The fact that the lawsuit exists is more evidence that speculation about the legitimacy of the 2020 election is far from “baseless.”

Senate Bill 418, signed into law by NH. GOP Governor Chris Sununu last year, requires those who register to vote on Election Day without photo ID to send in verifying documentation to the New Hampshire Secretary of State. Such voters submit an “affidavit ballot” on Election Day, which will be excluded from the final vote count unless the citizen complies with an identity-verification process within seven days of the election. If such a voter misses the seven-day deadline, his or her vote will not be counted under the law, and the Secretary of State would be required to turn over the voter’s name to the state attorney general’s office for possible criminal investigation.

The suit, joined by the Biden Administration, whines that “In the 2020 general election, the New Hampshire precincts with the highest number of election-day registrations tended to be areas with the highest number of young, non-white, and/or low-income voters. Most of these precincts also voted overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates.” 

Yeah, so?

“There is no evidence that New Hampshire elections have been meaningfully affected (if at all) by attempts to vote fraudulently, or even that there have been a significant number of such attempts,” the Democrats claim, and therefore the law “serves no legitimate purpose.”

Tell me another. The law interferes with the common ballot-stuffing practice of party operatives rounding up uninformed, apathetic low-income and/or non-English speaking voters on election day, taking them to polling places, and having them vote as they have been instructed and probably paid to do. That is a legitimate purpose. The law imposes no “undo burden”: all a legitimate voter has to do is register to vote before election day. That isn’t “burdensome.” The window now is 10 months, and was well over a year after the bill become law. Registering to vote in advance of election day isn’t a burden for anyone who regards the franchise as important. It is only a burden to civically unengaged and uninformed voters who shouldn’t be voting at all. The right to vote possessed by serious and responsible voters will be devalued by continuing to allow such last-minute patriots to cast ballots without proper identification.

As with the long-running disingenuous resistance of the Democratic Party and progressives to reasonable voter ID laws, this lawsuit is more evidence of which party depends on ballot-stuffing and unethical voting practices to win elections.

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Source: Courthouse News Service.