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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is at it again—racing to federal court to block the most basic safeguards against election fraud under the banner of “protecting democracy.”
Today, Tong joined a coalition of 25 mostly blue-state attorneys general in suing the United States Postal Service over a new rule that requires states to provide lists of voters eligible to receive mail-in ballots and to meet straightforward design standards for ballot envelopes. Under the rule, USPS would only deliver ballots to voters who appear on those verified lists and whose envelopes comply with the standards.
Tong doesn't like the rule, and accused President Trump of "breaking the law to try to micromanage who gets to vote, and how we cast our ballots."
"This time, he’s ordering the United States Postal Service to do his dirty work," wrote Tong. "The Constitution plainly forbids the President from commandeering elections to manipulate and micromanage how we vote, and we are aggressively pursuing our litigation on multiple fronts to protect our democracy.”
Yes, we're familiar with the aggressive litigation, considering Tong has filed or joined more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump administration so far.
President Trump’s March executive order and the subsequent USPS rule are not some dark plot to “disenfranchise” voters. They are a reasonable, common-sense effort to ensure that mail ballots—long an avenue for potential abuse, especially in Bridgeport—only go to eligible American citizens and not to dead people, non-citizens, or anyone else who shouldn’t be on the rolls, including illegal aliens.
Requiring states to register eligible mail voters with USPS and to use standardized, trackable envelopes seems like the bare minimum for election integrity in an era when tens of millions of ballots move through the postal system unsupervised.
Tong and his fellow Democratic AGs claim the rule imposes “burdensome” requirements that will somehow prevent eligible voters from receiving ballots. Their real complaint is that it forces them to clean up their own voter lists and stop treating the USPS as an unsupervised delivery service for whoever happens to request a ballot. Funny how “protecting democracy” always seems to mean opposing any verification that might reduce Democrat turnout.
The same mindset was on display Monday night when Connecticut’s own Sen. Chris Murphy appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper. When Cooper asked the softest possible softball—“In your view, what is the harm in the Department of Homeland Security creating a list of eligible voters?”—Murphy completely melted down into word salad.
Instead of answering the question, Murphy claimed Trump “doesn’t want people to vote,” would “selectively” remove Democrat-leaning voters (especially city dwellers), and then veered off into unrelated conspiracy theories about presidential enrichment.
Murphy couldn’t even defend the principle that only eligible voters should receive ballots; now Tong is in court trying to stop the Postal Service from enforcing that same principle.
Americans are tired of being told that basic steps to confirm citizenship and voting eligibility amount to “voter suppression” or cause “irreparable harm.” Ensuring that only eligible citizens vote—and that every legal vote counts—is neither harmful nor burdensome.
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