Policy experts and political leaders agree that election integrity is one of the most important issues facing the nation.
To that end, on Nov. 12, Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both R-Ga., introduced legislation last week to establish a bipartisan advisory commission to “analyze the integrity and the administration” of the 2020 general election for president and other federal offices.
The 2020 election revealed that “serious oversight of the administering of our nation’s elections is long overdue,” Loeffler said in a statement Thursday, adding that the proposed commission would report to Congress with “recommendations to strengthen election integrity going forward.”
Perdue and Loeffler face challenges in run-off elections Jan. 5 from challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectfully, that will determine which party controls the Senate.
The Perdue-Loeffler bill is called the Securing America’s Future Elections and Votes Act, or SAFE Votes Act.
The proposed 18-member commission would not be the first bipartisan effort to examine voting irregularities in U.S. elections and recommend what to do about them.
In the wake of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election between then-Vice President Al Gore and then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, as well as another close contest in 2004, officials empaneled a Commission on Federal Election Reform.
Dubbed the Carter-Baker commission, it was co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, and former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican. It addressed issues such as ballot harvesting and removing the names of dead voters from the registration rolls.
The Carter-Baker commission completed its report in 2005 with 87 recommendations for how to ensure election integrity ..
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