A new way to protect the integrity of our elections

When it comes to elections, all Americans can surely agree that everyone who’s eligible to vote should be able to, and that all votes should be counted honestly and fairly, undiluted by fraud, errors, or mistakes. 

The Heritage Foundation has created its new Election Integrity Scorecard to help ensure that happens.

President Abraham Lincoln once said, "Elections belong to the people." At a time when politicians across the country upended state election rules under the guise of COVID-19, the need to protect the people’s elections, and to safeguard the value of every citizen’s vote, couldn’t be clearer. 

Every citizen’s vote is sacred. The right to vote is how we as a free society guarantee that our government remains a republic of the people, by the people, and for the people. Americans need and deserve elections that they can trust, secure in the knowledge that their vote will not be lost, stolen, altered, or negated by fraud or a vote cast by an illegitimate voter.