Jimmy Carter Supported Election Integrity Reform, Deserves Recognition

In all the coverage of the good and bad things in Jimmy Carter’s record of public service, there’s been little discussion of the important bipartisan role he played in promoting election integrity. He took a lot of heat from fellow Democrats for his role in supporting voter ID laws and issuing cautions on the overuse of mail-in ballots, and he deserves recognition for what he did.

In 2005, Carter was a quarter century removed from his time in the White House, but at age 80 he agreed to co-chair 21-member bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform. His fellow co-chair was James Baker, a former treasury secretary under Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under George H. W. Bush.

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In all the coverage of the good and bad things in Jimmy Carter’s record of public service, there’s been little discussion of the important bipartisan role he played in promoting election integrity. He took a lot of heat from fellow Democrats for his role in supporting voter ID laws and issuing cautions on the overuse of mail-in ballots, and he deserves recognition for what he did.

In 2005, Carter was a quarter century removed from his time in the White House, but at age 80 he agreed to co-chair 21-member bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform. His fellow co-chair was James Baker, a former treasury secretary under Ronald Reagan and secretary of state under George H. W. Bush.