In testimony yesterday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), former Solicitor General and Judge Ken Starr made an obvious point — that courts that have dismissed vote fraud cases have done so solely on procedural grounds, rather than on their merits. “The presidential election of 2020 with its unprecedented feature of the use of mail-in ballots has given rise to a number of questions that deserve to be answered,” Starr said, and that “the Constitution is very clear that it is the prerogative of the state legislatures to determine what these (election) rules and laws are. And that was, I must say, flagrantly violated in Pennsylvania and perhaps elsewhere as well,” according to Christian Broadcast Network.
Starr also explained that there had been historical concerns over mail-in ballots, dating as far back as the time of Abraham Lincoln. In history, he observed, “there was, in fact, a campaign to deprive Abraham Lincoln of the Presidency and that was through the use of mail-in ballots.” It is therefore wise, he concluded,, “to pause and reflect on how we can, in fact, (uphold) that bedrock feature of integrity in the election process.”
