Foreign Funding, Ranked Choice Voting Top Election Integrity Concerns, Report Finds
The 2024 election concluded with few complaints or disputes from either side—but key improvements still need to be made to ensure free and fair contests, according to a new report from an election integrity watchdog.
“The election integrity movement has had enormous success over the last four years. But make no mistake: The fight is far from over, and if conservatives take their eye off the ball now the next election will not run as smoothly,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told The Daily Signal.
“After all, the Left is not giving up: they are continuing their assault on election integrity laws, fighting to enfranchise noncitizens, and laundering foreign money into influential ballot measure campaigns all over the country to advance abortion and rewrite our election laws for partisan gain,” Snead continued. “The 2024 election was not the end of the fight for election integrity, it was just the beginning.”
The Honest Election Project’s 2025 “Safeguarding Our Elections” report prioritized doing away with foreign funding of ballot measures as the top of its 14 suggestions.
“It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to political candidates, but a legal loophole allows them to contribute both directly and indirectly to ballot measure campaigns,” the report notes, adding, “Ballot issues can rewrite election laws and change state Constitutions.”
The report adds polling shows 78% of Americans oppose foreign nationals influencing elections.
In 2024, Ohio enacted a ban on foreign nationals directly or indirectly financing ballot issue campaigns, which the Honest Elections Project views as a model for other states. --->READ MORE HERE
2 More States Moving Forward to Block Noncitizens From Voting:
Two states advanced proposals this week to amend their constitutions to require citizenship for voting.
The South Dakota Senate voted 33-2 on Tuesday for an amendment banning noncitizen voting.
Two days later, the Kansas House of Representatives voted 90-28 for a similar amendment to its state’s constitution.
The amendments would still have to be passed by the other chambers of the legislatures–which is likely since Republicans control the legislatures in these conservative-leaning states. After that, voters will decide. Each state requires a simple majority of the voters to pass a constitutional amendment. In other states, voters have approved amendments to ban noncitizen voting by 70% or more.
So far, 14 states have similar amendments to their state constitutions, eight of which were adopted in this past November election, according to Americans for Citizen Voting, an advocacy group. In most cases, voters approved the amendments by comfortable margins.
“We are thrilled by the quick action in Kansas and South Dakota,” Americans for Citizen Voting President Avi McCulluh said in a public statement. “We are hopeful for passage in the other chambers in these states.”
However, opponents insist it’s a waste of time. Cille King, a board member of the Kansas chapter of the League of Women Voters, told KSNT-TV News, an NBC affiliate in Topeka, that the law is already clear that only citizens can vote.
“HCR 5004 should be dismissed as a waste of time and taxpayer money,” she said. “The current language is clear that only citizens can vote. The new language does nothing to address any possible voter roll errors.”
King further argued that changing the wording in the amendment “removes the certainty of every citizen’s right to vote.”
The citizen-only voting amendments will not affect federal elections in these states, where it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote. Rather, the amendments are to prevent municipalities from allowing noncitizen voting. --->READ MORE HERE
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