(M.D. Kittle) – Voters feel a lot more confident about the handling of this year’s presidential election, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. It’s funny what four years and a commitment to election integrity can have on the psyche of the American voter.
Much has happened since the rigged election of ’20, including election integrity reforms in critical swing states and the drive to get private money out of election administration like the hundreds of millions of Zuckbucks poured into local election offices.
But something else as important happened, grassroots election watchdogs say: Republicans woke up.
“Let’s say you are the owner of a warehouse and someone keeps breaking in all the time. Then you buy a pit bull guard dog and you let people know the guard dog is watching. People aren’t going to keep breaking into your business,” Chuck Muth, president of the Citizen Outreach Foundation, recently told The Federalist in an interview. “The elevation of the 2020 issues has had so many players watching now.”
Muth’s nonprofit late last year launched the Pigpen Project, an effort to clean up Nevada’s dirty voter rolls by tracking ineligible registrants in the battleground state’s voter registration database. The group has shone a bright light on a core election integrity weakness in a universal vote-by-mail state.