States that allow “same day registration and voting” include “swing states” Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin. You may have never voted in your life, but in these states and many others you can start today. You can register and vote today if you are a citizen of the United States.

Other states that are near swing state status and allow same-day registration and voting include New Hampshire, New Mexico and Virginia. Helene-ravaged North Carolina is also allowing a voter with no prior registration or voting history to show up today, show ID, register and then vote.

“Proof of residency is an important requirement in all states that offer same-day registration,” according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, a half-century-old nonpartisan organization that serves states’ elected legislatures. The group’s website is a great resource for journalists who want to figure out what the rules are in our patchwork of voting laws.

It is a good thing that we have a decentralized system, but it is not a good thing that there are suspicions about whether there is fraud in voting. It has always been true that there is cheating, and I wrote a book twenty years ago about the facts of election fraud, because the history of election fraud in the United States is rich, interesting and shameful: “If it’s not close, They’re not cheating.” To my surprise, it became a New York Times bestseller in the wake of the 2000 “hanging Chad” elections.

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The cheating in American elections in the 19th and early 20th centuries was driven primarily by the need for big city machines to maintain the power to distribute patronage. Machine jobs like Tammany Hall in New York City, the Pendergast Machine in Kansas City, Missouri, and the legendary Daley Machine in Chicago were not options for the families who depended on the jobs that provided for their families unless they were part of the machine. and the old machines could even be seen as guarantors of a social safety net in some circumstances.

Some election controversies, such as the 2000 Florida debacle, resulted from a combination of outdated technology that was overwhelmed or poorly designed – the butterfly vote – and ideologically driven courts such as the then Florida Supreme Court. When the United States Supreme Court ruled Bush v. Gore, the first and most important part of that decision was about the need for “due process.” It was a 7-2 decision in which two liberals joined five conservatives in calling the circus and undoing the Florida Supreme Court’s then-reckless and lawless majority of four justices of seven.

Eight states will vote on measures that would explicitly ban non-citizens from voting

Our nation’s highest court has stopped Florida’s highest court from ignoring long-standing principles of due process in vote counting. Five U.S. Supreme Court justices also called for a halt to the recount over concerns about the election calendar and its deadlines in federal law. Nearly every nonpartisan assessment of the 2000 vote in Florida agrees that President George W. Bush won that state and the 2000 election. The practice of “election denial” began in the aftermath of that election and has plagued our system ever since. Courts will ultimately resolve controversial cases involving voting. The constitution is very strong. Trust the Constitution.

However, don’t rely on the traditional media or the polls. The latter need to get another good election before we generally believe in them, and the former simply have no interest in faithfully representing half of America’s opinions and often not even the facts. Did you see the story that election officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania were reprimanded by a court there for sending voters home in line last week? It happened. It is in this cycle that the Republican National Committee will not play catch-up in lieu of early alert to election controversies. In Bucks County, the Republican Party sued for election mismanagement – ​​and won! Did you report that somewhere?

Finally, never forget that the traditional media plunged us into this cycle of distrust by wrongly calling Florida for Gore in 2000, before voting was even completed in the panhandle. How many voters left when they heard that, or stayed home in the west, is a ‘known unknown’. It is my opinion – alert to opinions – that Bush’s victory would have been as great as the electric shock of energy for the Democrats and the crushing blow to the hopes of the Republican party that the national ‘news networks’ delivered early on election night given, would not have been present.

What is not an opinion is that the “newsroom” of KCET-TV, the then-PBS affiliate in Los Angeles where I helped cover election night in 2000, erupted in cheers when that very wrong “decision-making office” was called. of Florida was announced. I was shocked then and still am. Old media pretended to be honest back then, but today they are an arm of the Democratic National Committee and much of the posing is gone. Don’t believe anyone tonight until a consensus emerges. Everyone makes mistakes, but facts are indeed stubborn things and they will eventually come out.

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My vote for Donald Trump and Senator Vance was cast weeks ago in Virginia, because the main story Thursday may not be our new president-elect, but a new attack by Iran on Israel and what Israel, with justification, can be expected to respond with : “third strike and you’re out” massive punishment of Iran’s nuclear program and its vanguard forces – the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Because our national security and that of our allies depends so heavily on the leadership of our President and the strength of their national security team, please vote, even if you have never voted before, if your state registers and votes on the same day allows. Then watch and wait. We’ll all know soon enough.

Hugh Hewitt hosts “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” heard weekdays from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. ET on the Salem Radio Network, and simulcast on the Salem News Channel. Hugh is waking up America on over 400 affiliates across the country, and on all streaming platforms where SNC can be seen. He is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel’s roundtable hosted by Bret Baier weekdays at 6:00 PM ET. Hewitt, a son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, has been a professor of law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996, where he teaches constitutional law. Hewitt launched his eponymous radio program from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has appeared regularly on every major national news television network, hosted television programs for PBS and MSNBC, written for every major American newspaper, authored a dozen books and moderated about two dozen Republican newspapers. candidate debates, most recently the November 2023 Republican presidential debate in Miami and four Republican presidential debates in the 2015-2016 cycle. Hewitt focuses his radio program and column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interviewed tens of thousands of guests during his four decades on the air, from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump, and this column previews the top story that will drive today are behind his radio/TV program.

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