Federal publisher Ben Domenech calls for greater transparency in the US electoral system and cites some Americans’ mistrust in the voting process during the 2020 presidential election.
“We do not really have the institutions that have been set up here in America to investigate these issues in a serious way,” Domenech told Brian Kilmeade on Monday on ‘Fox & Friends’. “I think it’s a shame, I think it needs to be addressed.”
“I think in any situation where a large number of Americans do not have confidence in the election process, it is a bad thing,” he added. “We need to address this.”
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A group of GOP senators, led by Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued a joint statement on Saturday saying they would not vote to confirm the outcome of the election unless a ten-day audit in disputed statements are made.
“A fair and credible audit conducted quickly before January 20 will dramatically improve Americans’ faith in our election process and significantly improve the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next president,” the statement said in part. “We owe it to the people. We are not acting to stop the democratic process, but rather to protect it.”
Congress will vote on January 6 on the outcome of the January 6 election college election. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., Along with several members of the House, also said they would object to the certification.
“I understand the people who make the argument,” Domenech said, noting that it is essential to investigate issues of electoral integrity without jeopardizing the entire electoral college system.
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Domenech stressed the importance of setting up a system to raise potential questions about election results.
“We do not have an approach that enables us to investigate, find the facts about this and bring it to the American people,” Domenech said. “As it currently stands, we have not addressed these kinds of things in the past.
“If we are going to act with the consent of the post, we will have this approach used in this election going forward, people need to be able to have confidence in it. [and] trust in it, “he continues.” This is not something I think we are going to get out of this process. ‘
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Domenech also called for media responsibilities to be more responsible when reflecting on electoral integrity.
” A responsible media would say ‘OK, how do we deal with this, how do we solve these questions?’ as opposed to just playing politics and being essentially a partisan actor, ‘he said.
Domenech argued that for many years now, many corporate media entities have been ‘actually looking away from everything they do not like, everything they do not want to discuss.’
“They pretended things were the way they wanted to be, as opposed to the way things actually are,” Domenech said. “This is something that I think will be an ongoing problem.”