Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said current election laws in the U.S. are “not prepared” to handle the current level of effort seen by leftist nonprofits and the administrative state to manipulate elections in favor of Democratic candidates.
Kline said in the past, election laws were challenged based on “procedure,” which is no longer the case today.
“Election challenges and election litigation in the past have been primarily a simple process of procedure, challenging procedure and vote recounts that go up on appeal for various issues. It’s profoundly different today,” Kline explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
Kline said the U.S. election system has been “destroyed” over the past five or six years as Democratic states, in coordination with the administrative state and leftist nonprofit organizations, have worked to manipulate elections to ensure Democratic victories up and down the ballot.
“Election laws were really not designed for that and weren’t anticipated for this type of thing that’s happening now. It wasn’t anticipated in the past where you have a private network of organized labor of various leftist nonprofits, also with administrative grants and the support of the administrative state, radically altering election procedures to benefit one particular party or candidate,” Kline explained.
Kline pointed out specific examples seen during recent elections where Democratic groups and states “make it easier” for people in predominantly Democratic areas to vote while, at the same time, making it more difficult for people in Republican areas to vote.
“In 2020, we had unilateral changes by election officials in selective areas of a state, primarily in Democratic strongholds to make voting easier, while at the same time in Republican strongholds, voting was made more difficult,” Kline said.
Kline mentioned the example of Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, where ballot drop boxes were placed every four square miles in Democratic strongholds, while there was only one ballot box placed every 1,157 square miles in Republican areas.
“In Pennsylvania, in the Democratic strongholds of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and so forth, they had one drop box for every four square miles, one drop box for every 5,000 voters. They had ballot harvesters paid by Zuckerbucks, and they had ballot curing paid by Zuckerbucks, all to turn out voters that predominantly would vote Democratic,” Kline explained.
“In the 59 counties that Trump won in Pennsylvania in 2016, there was one drop box for every 1,157 square miles, one drop box for every 75,000 voters, and they shut down in person polling in many areas. So it was targeted to make it easier for a select group of people to vote,” Kline added.
Regarding successfully fighting election laws moving forward, Kline said Republicans must be more “proactive.”
“Conservatives are lacking in the investigative side of things and the development of information and evidence. That’s where we are failing and because of that, we are not proactive enough as well,” Kline said.
“Today, what you have to have is a robust partnership with eyes on the ground, people who are witnessing what is happening and being involved and also to be able to develop information and evidence to demonstrate and prove wrongdoing,” Kline added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
