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Sen. Bernie Moreno: ‘We Can Learn’ from Colombia Election System with Voter ID, No Mail-In Vote

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Sen. Bernie Moreno’s firsthand look at Colombia’s election-day process—where voters must present government-issued photo ID at the polls and mail-in ballots are virtually nonexistent—ought to be required reading for every American who still believes “common-sense” voting rules somehow threaten democracy. Colombia’s system delivered a peaceful, high-turnout presidential vote with paper ballots counted on-site under bipartisan scrutiny, a far cry from the multi-week mail-in free-for-all that left U.S. results in doubt for days. The contrast is especially stark for Second Amendment supporters: when elections feel rigged or unverifiable, public trust collapses and the political class feels emboldened to treat constitutional rights as bargaining chips rather than bedrock law. Moreno’s takeaway—that we can import Colombia’s straightforward safeguards without reinventing the wheel—lands like a warning shot across the bow of every state still clinging to unsecured drop boxes and signature-free mail ballots. For gun owners who watched 2020’s procedural chaos followed by a flurry of new restrictions in blue states, the message is clear: election integrity isn’t a partisan talking point; it’s the firewall that keeps anti-2A majorities from being manufactured rather than earned at the ballot box.

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