I was on vacation all last week and took Monday off as well, so most of the posts were repeats. But it’s Monday night, and I have a fresh post set for Tuesday morning. If you asked me what the biggest mistake of the Trump 2016 administration was, it was neglecting the state level changes to election policy in blue states that made it easier for voter fraud to happen.

Here is the latest story from Daily Signal:

The Republican National Committee is executing President Donald Trump’s election-integrity agenda ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

[…]Trump signed an executive order in March requiring states to use proof of U.S. citizenship for federal voter registration, setting Election Day as the uniform deadline for receiving ballots in federal elections, and conditioning federal election funding on compliance with those and other election-integrity rules.

The RNC is working to defend Trump’s executive order in states where practices prohibited by the directive continue. While the president is taking the national approach to election integrity, the RNC is coming alongside him with a state-by-state approach.

“We are challenging these things on a state-by-state basis to make sure that they are compliant with the statutory schemes as constructed now, and that they provide the most balanced security as we can have in those states,” the official said.

So what are the changes that the RNC is pushing for? They are going after states that have a universal mail-in ballot system, where election officials automatically send absentee ballots to all registered voters in the state, regardless of whether individuals have asked for one.

They are also going after states that don’t update their voter rolls to remove ineligible voters—such as those who have died, moved away, or become inactive. If you don’t remove ineligible voters, you make it easier to commit voter fraud by duplicate voting or fraudulent voting.

They are also going after states that have “ballot harvesting”, such that third parties (e.g., campaign workers, family members, or organizations) can gather and submit completed ballots from multiple voters without limits, deadlines, or strict tracking requirements.

Now, when I read all this, I was thinking of the Secretaries of State in blue states like Michigan and Pennsylvania. Can you really improve election integrity scores in blue states? Well the article talks about some of their wins in blue states, so yes – they really are doing it.

Here is a ranking of states for election integrity:

Rank	State	2024 Vote
1-t	Tennessee	R
1-t	Arkansas	R
3	Alabama	R
4	Louisiana	R
5-t	Florida	R
5-t	Georgia	R
7-t	Indiana	R
7-t	Oklahoma	R
9	South Carolina	R
10	Missouri	R
11-t	Mississippi	R
11-t	Ohio	R
11-t	Texas	R
11-t	Wisconsin	R
15	Kentucky	R
16	Iowa	R
17	Kansas	R
18	North Carolina	R
19	Nebraska	R
20-t	New Hampshire	D
20-t	South Dakota	R
22	Montana	R
23	Virginia	D
24-t	Arizona	R
24-t	Idaho	R
24-t	Pennsylvania	R
24-t	Rhode Island	D
28	Utah	R
29	West Virginia	R
30	Wyoming	R
31	Michigan	R
32	Alaska	R
34	Maryland	D
35-t	Delaware	D
35-t	North Dakota	R
37	New Mexico	D
38-t	Colorado	D
38-t	Connecticut	D
38-t	Maine	D
41	Illinois	D
42-t	Minnesota	D
42-t	New Jersey	D
42-t	New York	D
45	Massachusetts	D
46	Washington	D
47	Nevada	R
48-t	Oregon	D
48-t	Vermont	D
50	California	D
51	Hawaii	D

 

Notice how most of the red states have good election integrity, whereas most of the blue states have poor election integrity. That’s because most people who live in blue states like Washington cannot rationally ground objective moral values and objective moral duties, and so they just behave immorally.

My advice to people in blue states is to move out to red states, where you are sure your vote will count.