President Abraham Lincoln always spoke about elections declaring, “elections belong to the people.”

In keeping the thoughts on the same wavelink there have been many questions about the legal and proper way to inject truth and integrity in our election process.

Many statements, whether factual or not, have been made about the past presidential elections.

Seems a lot of time and money went into the way this past presidential election was conducted under the watchful eye of many people. Somehow the truth about this election may never come out. John R. Lott, Jr. has written for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times and is the author of ten books.

In a piece he recently wrote for Hillsdale College’s Imprimis, a monthly speech digest, he asks the question, “is ensuring election integrity anti-democratic?”

Lott writes that “in 2005, the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform issued a report that proposed a uniform system of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in U.S. elections.”

The report also pointed out, “that widespread absentee voting makes vote fraud more likely and the report also pointed out that widespread absentee voting makes fraud more likely.”

This report said, “voter files contain ineligible, duplicate, fictional and deceased voters, a fact easily exploited using absentee ballots to commit fraud,” and, “that citizens who vote absentee are more susceptible to pressure and intimidation and vote-buying schemes are far easier than citizens vote by mail.”

Lott explained, “that those behind the Carter-Baker Commission were former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat and former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican. Other Commission members identified included Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and former Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton.”

Lee pointed out in the article that “it was truly a bipartisan commission that made what seemed at the time to be common sense proposals.”

The Wall Street Journal reporter noted, “it only takes a few years to pass by and, Jimmy Carter last year came out to disavow the Commission’s work while President Biden has condemned the idea of voter ID’s.”

The peddlers of some information have come out saying, “that requiring voters ID’s would mean returning people to slavery.”

This article said, “the fact is that of the 47 countries in Europe today, 46 of them currently require government issued photo ID’s to vote.”

Lee added, “if the rhetoric from politics today is correct and voter ID’s are un-democratic, then so are the countries of Europe and the rest of the developed world.”