Watch: Mollie Hemingway Sums Up Why Americans Should Be Concerned About the Security of Our Elections

In testimony Wednesday before the Committee on House Administration, Mollie Hemingway neatly summed up in several minutes the significant concerns many Americans share about the integrity of U.S. elections.

The hearing was titled “Confronting Zuckerbucks, Private Funding of Election Administration,” and focused on private interference in the 2020 and 2024 elections to favor the Democrat Party.

“The American system of self-governance is under attack,” Hemingway, the author of Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections, began in her opening statement.

The editor-in-chief at the Federalist detailed the following concerns:

1.   We no longer have an “Election Day”:

Instead of an Election Day where everyone votes at the same time and with the same full set of information, votes are counted quickly, and everyone promptly knows and trusts the outcome, we now have lengthy election seasons that can last months prior to, and even after, Election Day. The situation is so absurd that we have presidential and gubernatorial debates weeks after some people have already voted.

2.   “Millions of unsupervised mail-in ballots”:

Instead of having total security and a verifiable chain of custody for ballots being issued, cast and counted, we flood addresses across the country with tens of millions of unsupervised mail-in ballots, months ahead of elections, frequently to locations from which voters, if they're even alive, have long since moved.

3.   “Private takeover of government election offices”:

Instead of having election administration that is rigorously nonpartisan and impartial under the law, we have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by partisan oligarchs and their armies of activists who use those offices and their authorities to tilt the election toward favored candidates.

4.   Soviet-Russia style attempts by powerful interests to remove the popular candidate from the ballot:

Instead of voters being able to vote for the candidate of their choice, powerful interests backed by wealthy oligarchs are working to remove the most popular candidate and the ruling party's chief opponent, from the ballot in a move reminiscent of Soviet Russia.

5.   Soviet-Russia style attempt by one side to throw its opponent in prison:

Instead of the top candidates chosen by the people being able to fully engage in a vigorous campaign heading into an election, we have one side actively attempting to throw its opponent in prison and bankrupt his family – again, reminiscent of Soviet Russia.

6.   Corrupt Department of Justice prevails instead of the rule of law:

Instead of a system of rule of law that gives Americans the same rights and due process, the Department of Justice and other partisan actors are prosecuting their opposition, whether powerful or lowly, and doing so in places where partisan juries will ensure a quick conviction.

7.   Corrupt media exclusively in the camp of one political party:

Instead of a free and independent press that shares news and information to help inform voters, we have a press that is almost exclusively the arm of one political party and is so corrupt, that it is willing to perpetrate hoax after hoax against opposition party members.

8.   “Elaborate censorship complex” working with government to suppress free speech:

Instead of a vibrant public square where Americans can debate issues and express their strongly-held views, we have an elaborate censorship industrial complex where the government works hand in hand with tech oligarchs to suppress and blacklist debate on all the important issues that contribute to election outcomes.

“Allowing just one of these attacks to infect our electoral system would be a crisis,” Hemingway said. “Allowing all of them at the same time is an existential threat to our system of self-government.”

Below is committee Chairman Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI-01), questioning the witnesses about how partisan private industry leaders funneled massive funds into the 2020 election, via leftist organizations such as the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), using the state of Wisconsin as an example.

According to Influence Watch, the CTCL “pushes for left-of-center voting policies and election administration,” and “has a wide reach into local elections offices across the nation,” and “is funded by many left-of-center funding organizations.”

In October 2020, CTCL announced Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan had committed an additional $100 million, “[b]uilding on Chan and Zuckerberg’s original $250 million” for “safe and reliable voting to meet overwhelming demand.”

Read more about Zuckerbucks at the Federalist here.

In July, Steil introduced the American Confidence in Elections Act (ACE) (H.R. 4563).

Below is the entire committee hearing: