News and Analysis on the 2025 Legislative Session
NEWS. December 12, 2024, in Little Rock.
The 2025 legislative session kicks off next month. However, bills are already being filed. Yesterday, a bill was filed by Representative David Whitaker to automatically allow persons sixty-five years of age or older to vote by absentee ballot.
Across the nation, absentee voting is a privilege and not a right. However, the trend across many states has been to entrench the privilege. In Arkansas, absentee voting is only permitted when certain conditions apply. Whitaker’s bill would add a condition—old age.
The bill does not have a senate sponsor.
ANALYSIS. “Every [day] it’s getting more bleak, fresh poison each week.” Hozier.
Representative Whitaker clearly does not know very much about election integrity. But that is not surprising coming from the Democrat from “The People’s Republic of Fayettenam.”
There is a reason this bill does not have a Senate sponsor.
I encourage the Representative to read the Carter-Baker Commission Report on Federal Election Reform. It’s here. I call your attention to page 46, where the commission found that the most fraud in elections occurs in absentee voting because it takes place outside the sanctity and protection of the polls.
This report was published in September of 2005. It notes the prolific number of non-citizens who register and vote by absentee ballot. This year, the Republican National Lawyer’s Association reported that non-citizen registration is up from 2005, with some states automatically registering people to vote if they request an ID card or pay taxes.
In Wisconsin in 2020, elderly voters were unduly and inappropriately pressured in their own homes to cast absentee ballots for Joe Biden.
Do you really want your 65-year-old mother or grandmother to have to stop baking cookies to face several large, intimidating individuals in their own home who want to know why they have not returned their absentee ballot for the democratic candidate, and can they help them do so?
Voting, like many other rights, is not supposed to be an easy one to exercise. The right to vote exists for qualified individuals ON ELECTION DAY!
Part of the protection is ensuring that grandma and grandpa are astute enough to be able to get to the polls, because if they are not capable of getting to the polls, then there are serious questions about their ability to intelligently cast a ballot.
Attorney. America First. Sued Hunter Biden for child support. Represented President Trump in the 2020 Wisconsin election challenge. Former attorney for the Wisconsin Special Counsel. An official “Tough Cookie” per President Trump.
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