What To Do About Election Officials Who Ignore the Law

 Margot Cleveland of The Federalist tells us What To Do When Election Officials Keep Ingnoring Voting Laws and when the courts won't do anything about it. She has several suggestions though:

Earlier this month, Fairfax County, Virginia — a locale that broke 70-30 for President Joe Biden and Democrat Sen. Mark Warner in 2020 — previewed the attacks on election integrity likely planned for the midterm cycle of 2022 and beyond. There, election officials in the deep-blue county approved absentee and mail-in ballot applications lacking the statutorily mandated last four digits of the voter’s Social Security number, then promptly mailed these unauthenticated individuals ballots for next Tuesday’s election.

While last week the Virginia Institute for Public Policy (VIPP), a public policy organization dedicated to election integrity, filed suit against the county registrar and the three members of the Fairfax County Electoral Board responsible for flouting state election law, a hearing on the case is not scheduled until Friday. By then, the election will be only days away and a court is unlikely to order ballots returned by the deadline discarded.

Because, of course, too many judges have become partisan hacks and don't care about the law at all.  And even if the legislatures make each element of the law criminally liable for either fines or imprisonment or both if disregarded, there is no guarantee officials will be found guilty by courts willing to overlook the crimes in the first place.

State legislators have few options available to confront this scenario, making the Supreme Court’s refusal last term to address the problem in the Pennsylvania case all the more disappointing. One possible option, though, would be to remove jurisdiction, i.e., take away their power to hear cases, from state courts on challenges to “the time, place and manner” for the election of senators, representatives, or electors, established by the state legislature.

Of course, such challenges could still be brought in the federal court system, but this approach would limit the mischief being done by state court judges.

The truth is that while Democrats keep harping on "our democracy," they don't care about either "our democracy" or our democratically elected representative Republic. What they care about is power, by any means necessary.