Vote centers have made it easier to vote. Cleta Mitchell is coming for them [View all]

[RandySF]

Last month, Cleta Mitchell joined conservative podcaster Steve Stern to talk about strategies that her influential anti-voting group, the Election Integrity Network (EIN), is working on for the 2026 midterms.

“We have to change the dynamic of how we conduct elections and return to a time when accuracy and accountability and transparency were the rule of the day,” Mitchell said. “My main mission… is that all voting takes place locally.”

Mitchell and EIN are hoping to change the dynamic of the 2026 midterms by pressuring state and local election officials to only allow voting to take place in small neighborhood precincts, rather than the vote centers — usually large locations where anyone in a county can cast a ballot — that, in recent years, have greatly expanded access to the ballot box.

An EIN paper released January 9 made the case that vote centers have “distinct vulnerabilities” — like the “co‑mingling of ballots from across an entire county” — that could allow for election fraud to flourish.




https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/vote-centers-have-made-it-easier-to-vote-cleta-mitchell-is-coming-for-them/