Rep. Hoyer’s assertion on Fox News Sunday that EFCA wouldn’t eliminate secret ballot union elections but would present merely an alternative method for union certification is accurate. It’s also wildly disingenuous. No union, upon obtaining the requisite 50% +1 of union authorization cards, is going to petition for an election when at that point the union can be instantly certified under EFCA.

Hoyer knows perfectly well that employees may act differently in the privacy of the voting booth than when asked to sign a card in the presence of co-workers and union agents. Unions know this, too. That’s precisely why EFCA would cause the extinction of secret ballot union elections.

The good news for EFCA opponents is that if this is Hoyer’s best defense of EFCA, he knows the bill’s got problems.