California and Hawaii were Worse
The Heritage Foundation just released its 2025 Election Integrity Report.
In order to help voters, state legislators, election officials, and all Americans who are interested in ensuring a fair and secure election process, The Heritage Foundation has published this Election Integrity Scorecard, which compares the election laws and regulations of each state and the District of Columbia that affect the security and integrity of the process to the Foundation’s best-practices recommendations.
As a reminder, however, even the best laws are not worth much if responsible officials do not enforce them rigorously. It is up to the citizens of each state to make sure that their elected and appointed public officials do just that.
On that last point, we can count ourselves lucky in New Hampshire. We have a handful of activists who are committed to a bipartisan effort to ensure the state’s elections are secure and that voters can have confidence in the results. Efforts that are met with institutional resistance at every turn.
Citizens can’t wait and expect the system to attempt anything past window dressing, from policy to enforcement. New Hampshire has plenty of election laws with no precise enforcement method, making them at best useless tools used arbitrarily. Despite that, New Hampshire managed to rank 20th, far and away the best score in New England.
Vermont has very few controls, no ID requirements, no restrictions to prevent illegals from voting, and little or no enforcement. That might explain this interesting statistic. Despite having one of the worst results for election integrity, it has no election fraud cases under investigation.
If you don’t care about fraud, you don’t care, and that’s not about to change. While Republicans made considerable improvements in representation, Vermont Democrats still control both chambers of the legislature. A characteristic shared by most of the worst states, which are a who’s who of Blue.
Correlation is not causation, but why do Democrat controlled states have the worst records and laws when it comes to ensuring election integrity?
They must believe there’s some advantage to that, something Republicans in Vermont likely know but have been unable to address. Then there are Marxist enclaves of crime and villainy like Burlington and Brattleboro, where they want illegals and minors voting.
Any guess for whom they think those folks will vote?
I found sixteen bills on elections. None of them had to do with ID or ensuring the voter casting the ballot was who they claimed to be, and according to Heritage, Vermont has no laws to ensure this.
Those “Assisting voters” do not have to provide ID when submitting ballots for others, no process to ensure registered voters are citizens, and no restrictions on ballot harvesting.
Most states do a poor job. New Hampshire could do a lot better, especially with enforcement when election law is ignored or violated. Vermont has more problems than we can shake a hockey stick at, and short of another whirlwind midterm surprise that gives Republicans control of the State Assembly, that’s not going to change.
Vermonters have no guarantee their votes count and little likelihood that anyone cares if they don’t.
Here are the top ten best states, according to the Heritage Scorecard (find your state here)
