CHAD ENNIS: The Left Is Freaking Out Over A Common Sense Voting Rule … Again

There is no election integrity measure that the Left will not sue to block. This seems like an outlandish sentence, but history keeps proving it true.

The Left’s election-industrial complex is ready to pounce at a moment’s notice. No rule is safe, not even one as simple as Georgia’s new policy requiring officials to verify that the number of votes matches the number of voters in an election.

Georgia’s State Elections Board recently passed a new rule requiring that before certifying an election, local officials “must first compare the number of unique voters who participated to the number of ballots cast from each precinct.” In simpler terms, these officials must make sure that the number of ballots matches the number of people who showed up to vote.

It is amazing that this needs to be mandated. Reconciliation is so basic that you would expect that election officials would not need to be ordered to do it.

As the former head of the Audit Division with the Texas Secretary of State, I can tell you that the first thing an election official is taught is that the number of voters and the number of ballots must be reconciled. Think of voters as the input and ballots as the output. Inputs should match outputs. If, at the end of voting, these numbers do not match, officials must attempt to fix it.

In many cases, there will be fewer ballots than voters for legitimate reasons. For example, some voters check in, get a ballot, and then decide that they do not want to vote. Other voters mistakenly leave the polling place without depositing their ballot in the ballot box. In both cases, the number of voters who checked in will be greater than the number of ballots.