Mail-in ballots, private takeover of elections with “Zuckerbucks,” Big Tech censorship and Democratic meddling are key ways “the American system of self-governance is under attack,” said Mollie Hemingway, Federalist editor and bestselling author. ” warned in his testimony before the House Administration Committee.
“We have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by partisan oligarchs and their armies of activists who use these offices and their authorities to tilt elections in favor of favored candidates,” she said.
In his opening speech Wednesday, Hemingway diagnosed the deterioration of U.S. elections and Americans’ confidence in the electoral process as the result of “long election seasons.”
“The situation is so absurd that we are having presidential and gubernatorial debates weeks after some people have already voted,” Hemingway noted.
Mail-in voting in particular, Hemingway said, forces voting to begin months before Election Day.
“Instead of having complete security and a verifiable chain of custody for ballots issued, cast and counted, we flooded addresses across the country with tens of millions of mail-in ballots, unmonitored, months before elections, frequently to places from which voters, if they wanted to, they are even alive, have long moved, instead of having a rigorously non-partisan and impartial election administration under the law “, she explained.
Hemingway said this strategy not only applied in the 2020 presidential election, but was also used by Democrats in the 2024 cycle to prevent former President Donald Trump from receiving support in the 2024 elections. elections.
“Instead of allowing voters to vote for the candidate of their choice, powerful interests backed by wealthy oligarchs are working to eliminate the most popular candidate and the main opponent of the ruling party from the ballot, in a move that is reminiscent of Soviet Russia,” Hemingway said. “And if that wasn’t enough, instead of the best candidates being chosen by the people and being able to fully engage in vigorous campaigning in the run-up to the election, we have a side that is actively trying to throw its opponent in jail and bankrupt his family. again, reminiscent of Soviet Russia instead of a rule of law system that gives Americans equal rights and due process.
The Justice Department, “other partisan actors” and “partisan juries,” Hemingway said, play key roles in the latest election interference scheme, but they are not alone.
“We have a press that is almost exclusively the arm of one political party and is so corrupt that it is willing to perpetrate hoax after hoax against members of opposition parties instead of a vibrant public square where Americans can debate issues and express their strongly held opinions,” Hemingway said.
Hemingway said that in addition to corrupt corporate media, big tech was using its Internet power to influence election results.
“We have an elaborate censorship industrial complex, in which the government works hand-in-hand with tech oligarchs to suppress and blacklist debate on every important issue that contributes to election results,” she said. note. “This is something I know personally because our government worked with tech companies to censor me for my election reporting.”
As Hemingway described it in his 2021 book “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and Democrats Captured Our Elections” “Nonprofit groups with deep ties to the Democratic Party and funded by one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, have taken control of government election offices , particularly in Democratic areas of swing states. »
The introduction of “Zuckerbucks” into American elections, Hemingway said, was just the beginning of a widespread and growing campaign “led by partisans to further infiltrate government offices to secure favorable results.”
“Allowing even one of these attacks to infect our electoral system would be a crisis. Allowing them all at once poses an existential threat to our system of self-government,” Hemingway warned.
Jordan Boyd is an editor at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. His work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.
