SCOTUS Ruling & Blue State Election Integrity - Top 3 Takeaways January 15th, 2026
Takeaway #1: Blue State Election Integrity
On a scale of 1-10, how confident are you in Florida conducting fair and honest elections? Now, how confident are you in say...Illinois conducting fair and honest elections? Probably about as confident as you were in Florida’s election integrity in the days when Susan Booker was the Supervisor of Palm Beach County and Brenda Snipes manned the helm in Broward and boxes of ballots could be found in trunks of cars and would be counted days after Election Day. I still have PTSD stemming from Florida 2000 and most recently in exposing the lies and the fraudulent vote counting that was committed in Broward and PBC as recently as 2018. But following years of election integrity laws, including the creation of an election crimes investigation division, new voting standards and equipment – Florida's now the standard for how elections should be run. If the third largest state in the country can tabulate all the non-provisional ballots within an hour of the polls closing in even presidential elections – it can be done anywhere. But at issue is the desire by many states, namely blue states, that don’t want to conduct elections that way. Many states, 13 blue states to be exact, don’t require any voter ID. What's more is that many of those states don’t even believe that Election Day should represent a deadline for voter's ballots to be received. Illinois is one of those states...a state that doesn’t require any ID to vote and that also allows vote-by-mail ballots to be received after Election Day...but not because they want to maximize the opportunity for fraudulent votes, no they’re quick to tell you it’s because they want to count every vote (apparently even if it’s after Election Day and even if you’re an illegal immigrant saying you’re Bob Smith). On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled in a way that holds the potential to eventually...
Takeaway #2: Make half of that potentially fraudulent combination go away.
Illinois Republican Rep. (yes there is such a thing remaining) Mike Bost sued the state challenging the Illinois law that allows for mail-in-ballots received after Election Day to be counted. The state sought to have his lawsuit thrown out by saying that the congressman didn’t have proper standing to bring the suit. The Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, said he did. Progressive Justice Kagan joined with the more conservative justices to deliver a decision that allows a lawsuit to move forward that holds the potential to not only put an end to Illinois's ridiculous vote-by-mail policy, but that could also have an impact on up to 19 additional states that at least hold the door open for vote-by-mail ballots received after Election Day to be counted – including key swing states like Pennsylvania and Nevada in addition to the largest state, California, that can have a significant impact on congressional elections. And btw, for the leftists who continue to claim that there aren’t real election integrity concerns. Harvard’s annual Electoral Integrity Project found that U.S. election integrity as of 2025...
Takeaway #3: Scored a record low of 54 out of 100.
The United States now ranks 18th out of 29 countries in the Americas as we rank just behind Bolivia, you know because how could the United States possibly conduct elections that are as credible as Bolivia?...or for that matter Iraq? That’s right – Iraq scored a 57 in election integrity last year or three points better than the United States. Canada by comparison scores an 86 and Haiti scored a 37. In other words, our country’s overall election integrity, largely due to blue states doing away with just about any election integrity measures, is far closer to being as credible as Haitian elections than we are to Canada. And, if we make really solid progress in election integrity this year, our elections just might become as credible as Iraq's. So, what does that tell you? For a long time, many conservatives have lamented the inability to bring election integrity to blue states governed by politicians that clearly don’t want it. We’re still a long way from getting it, but the first major hurdle to achieving a potentially massive victory was just achieved.