The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld voting integrity in Arizona and across the nation by ruling against the Democratic National Committee and for ballot fairness. Republicans were justifiably pleased.

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FNC: “Republicans in favor of laws that strengthen election security are praising the Supreme Court’s ruling in Brnovich v. DNC, a case centered on Arizona voting rules that outlawed ballot harvesting and called for provisional ballots cast at the wrong precinct to be thrown out. The Democratic National Committee, which challenged the laws, claimed that they were discriminatory in practice and even alleged a discriminatory intent behind the ballot harvesting restriction. The official perhaps celebrating the most is, not surprisingly, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who was named in the case and argued it. The court’s decision upheld the state’s ability to enforce the laws meant to keep the election process secure. Brnovich stressed the importance of using measures to reduce fraud.”

“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic and that starts with rational laws that protect not only the right to vote but the accuracy of the results,” Brnovich said. “Every American deserves to feel confident that their vote is counted and counted accurately.”

As for Justice Kagan’s vicious dissent? “I think that everyone is entitled to their own opinions – especially a Supreme Court justice – but not their own facts,” he said. “Her comments, quite frankly, are untethered in reality.”

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Civil rights and election law attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon said the Republican effort was “to make sure it’s the person themselves returning their ballots…Both of these measures being upheld by the Supreme Court protect the integrity of elections in Arizona, and frankly it will enable other states to go forward with similar types of measures with the comfort that the United States Supreme Court has blessed these,” Dillon told press. As for the Democratic National Committee’s argument? “There is no empirical or even logical argument for this,” Dillon said, adding that “the law makes sure that all votes are counted equally.”

“The Supreme Court appropriately recognized that the Constitution affords states the right to make reasonable voting regulations,” West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said in a statement. “We must work to protect the integrity of elections. It should only be in rare instances that federal law strikes down a state voting regulation, and the Supreme Court was correct in finding that Arizona’s law was not one of those instances.”