Key Vulnerabilities in US Elections: Hans von Spakovsky

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Hans von Spakovsky is a former member of the Federal Election Commission and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He is also the head of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative. He has been looking at election integrity issues for years.

In this episode, he breaks down what he sees as key vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, from ballot harvesting to outdated voter rolls to lack of citizen verification processes.

“The biggest problem across the country is that we have an honor system for registering, so states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a U.S. citizen,” he says.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	The biggest problem across the country is that we have an honor system for registering.
0:06.2	So states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a US citizen.
0:12.8	Virginia, for example, recently started checking
0:15.8	its voter registration roles by checking
0:18.2	other state databases like DMV,
0:21.3	driver's license records.
0:23.4	And they discovered that there were individuals who, when they went to get their driver's license,
0:27.8	produced documentation showing they were not U.S. citizens, but they were also on the voter registration list.
0:34.6	Hans von Spikowski is a former member of the Federal Election Commission and a Senior Legal
0:39.5	Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
0:41.9	He is also the head of the think tank's election
0:44.0	law reform initiative. Half the states allow third party strangers to come to
0:49.3	your house and offer to pick up and deliver your absentee ballot.
0:53.8	That's a mistake.
0:54.8	There are a lot of absentee ballot fraud cases.
0:57.8	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jan Yekyllic.
1:00.4	Hans von Spikovsky, such a pleasure to have you back on American thought leaders.
1:07.0	Thanks for having me. There's been a lot of attempts at bolstering election integrity across a number of
1:18.6	states.
1:19.6	I want to get a sense from you of how that's gone?
1:23.2	Well, I would tell people is that overall,
1:25.1	we are in better shape in the 24 election
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