Red state tops annual Heritage Foundation scorecard for strongest election integrity: 'Hard to cheat'

FIRST ON FOX: The Heritage Foundation released its yearly Election Integrity Scorecard connected Tuesday, which ranks the states it believes are strongest successful presumption of election integrity successful a reappraisal that resulted successful Arkansas topping the list. 

Arkansas, led by GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, moved up from #8 and earned the #1 ranking successful the new report that was compiled by looking astatine factors including elector ID implementation, accuracy of voting lists, absentee ballot management, verification of citizenship, and different attributes. 

In a property release, Sanders touted respective accomplishments successful a caller legislative league including Act 240, Act 241, and 218 which the authorities says "strengthened protections connected Arkansas’ ballot amendment process truthful that atrocious actors cannot power and alteration the Natural State’s Constitution."

Sanders besides signed authorities to forestall overseas entities from backing authorities and section measures. b

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Voters marque selections astatine their voting booths wrong an aboriginal voting site (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

"My extremity this league was simple: marque it casual to ballot and hard to cheat," Sanders said successful a statement. "I was arrogant to enactment with my friend, Secretary of State Cole Jester, to marque Arkansas ballot boxes the safest and astir unafraid successful America and extremity petition fraud to support our Constitution. Today’s announcement shows that each our hard enactment paid off."

In a statement, Jester said, "As Secretary of State, I person said from time 1 we would person the astir unafraid elections successful the country."

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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a run rally for erstwhile US President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump  (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

"I’m arrogant of the enactment my squad has completed implementing caller procedures and technology. None of this would beryllium imaginable without the large enactment of Governor Sanders and the men and women of the Arkansas legislature."

Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, told Fox News Digital that Sanders and the authorities of Arkansas "deserve superior credit" for their efforts astatine predetermination integrity. 

"States crossed the state should travel Arkansas' pb by implementing these captious predetermination reforms that marque it casual to ballot and hard to cheat," Snead said. 

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Red states made up the entirety of the apical 10 ranking and included Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. 

The past 3 of the states connected the database included Oregon, Vermont, California, and Hawaii. 

Earlier this year, Snead's Honest Elections Project released a guide, first reported by Fox News Digital, outlining what it says are must-needed reforms to beryllium taken up successful states crossed the state to guarantee predetermination integrity. 

The study listed implicit a twelve "critical" measures, ranging from elector ID to cleaning up elector rolls to banning overseas power successful elections. 

"Election integrity ballot issues passed with flying colors crossed the committee connected predetermination night," Snead said astatine the time. "Now that authorities legislative sessions are starting up, lawmakers person a work to fulfill the mandate the American radical gave to marque it casual to ballot and hard to cheat."