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November 30, 2022

With the ongoing invasion over the last two years by millions of foreigners at our southern border, America has a much bigger election integrity problem than before Joe Biden became president. So, just how did California, Arizona, New Mexico and other states with large enclaves of illegal aliens ensure that the recent invaders (as well as the millions of previous invaders from decades past) didn’t vote in the November 8 federal elections?

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You see, noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal. But Democrats seem to see nothing wrong with the invasion. Indeed, the Left wants illegal aliens to be able to vote in America’s elections; see “Why Non-Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote” by Ron Hayduk at Jacobin. (Americans who believe in the ideal of citizenship won’t approve of Mr. Hayduk.)

However, if anyone can vote in America’s elections, then just what is the value of American citizenship? Given all the freebies the feds are handing out to the invaders, some citizens may see the invaders as having more rights than they have. Did citizens approve of this largesse?

But voting in federal elections by illegal aliens is just one of many types of election crime, and many of such crimes are simply undetectable using safeguards currently in use. Surely there should be methods to detect election crime. Congress needs to intervene in State elections for federal offices.

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Clause 1, Section 4, of Article I of the Constitution gives the authority to enact laws that govern electing members of Congress (i.e. the federal legislature) to the legislatures of the States. This provision was trampled on in the 2020 election, when the courts in Pennsylvania saw fit to rewrite election law. (That the judges are still at large is disappointing.) But there’s more, so here’s Clause 1 in its entirety (italics added):

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing [i.e. choosing] Senators.

It would seem, then, that Congress has the power to impose upon the several States its own laws concerning elections of members of Congress. Not only that, but Section 5 of Article I stipulates that (italics added): “Each House [of Congress] shall be the Judge of the Elections… of its own Members.”

So, Congress can reject States’ elections of federal officials, and refuse to seat their electees. One wonders if the U.S. Senate shall judge the 2022 midterm elections, and especially if it will judge the fitness of one John Fetterman from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. There might be a furor if the Senate refused to seat Fetterman, but we’re talking about the “greatest deliberative body in the world.” How could Fetterman possibly make the cut? Imagine an entire Senate made up of Fettermans.

The point here is that Congress could do something about the unfit people we’re getting in our federal offices. But judging Fetterman to be unfit would likely offend Democrat members’ idea of “democracy,” (and we can’t have that). If one is appalled by some of the characters in Congress, blame the entire body for allowing it.

Besides having the power to reject a State’s congressional elections and not seat their electees, Congress also has the prerogative to object to the Electoral College’s certificates for president. That’s a lot of what the January 6 “insurrection” was all about. That the “insurrectionists” brought no firearms to the party doesn’t seem to matter much to the Party of Government.