No, ‘Purity Of The Ballot Box’ Is Not Racist Election Law Terminology. It’s Historically Accurate

As the Texas legislature works to strengthen its election laws against voter fraud, leftists are fighting the bill with revisionist history and cries of 'racism.'

By Chuck DeVore May 12, 2021

As in Georgia, Florida, and other states, the Texas legislature is working to strengthen the state’s election law against the left’s largely successful 2020 effort to subvert it.  Texas last passed an election code omnibus bill in 2017 (I testified in favor of the bill). That bill, as with 2021’s efforts, aimed to increase safeguards against ballot trafficking, a common tactic that exploits the weaknesses inherent in the mail-in ballot process.

Elections workers ask citizens voting in-person in Texas for a government-issued photo ID. Voting by mail has no such requirement in addition to other vulnerabilities, such as paid ballot traffickers pressuring voters to vote the “right” way or marking the ballot on their behalf.

Using COVID-19 as an excuse to do what they have wanted to do for years, a series of lawsuits led by Marc Elias at Perkins Coie of discredited Donald Trump dossier infamy, attempted to overturn Texas’s limitations on voting by mail. The coordinated effort to “fortify” the 2020 election saw the infusion of $36 million in outside money aimed at boosting mail-in voting in Texas — even to those ineligible to do so under Texas law. Elias already has Texas at the top of his watch list to sue over new “voter suppression” laws......................

The LDF goes on to conflate the phrase “purity of the ballot box” from Texas’s Constitution of 1876 with the efforts to begin disenfranchising black voters in Texas that followed. This is a remarkable accusation. If true, it would redound to the discredit of those carrying the bill and supporting it.

Revisionist History

The problem with this effort at historical revisionism is that the phrase “purity of the ballot box” has a long history specifically referring to concern about corrupted elections............To Read More......

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