Pennsylvania State Rep. Dawn Keefer has become the go-to legislator on election law over her four terms in office. The York County Republican with more than 20 years of public- and private-sector experience brings a passion to election integrity issues that’s unfortunately all too rare in politics.
“I have personally dug into this issue. I have colleagues come up to me all the time and ask me about election laws,” Keefer said in an interview this week. “I know how it should be done, and how it is actually being done.”
“I’m just trying to get [officials] to follow the laws in the first place.”
So it should come as no surprise that Keefer, who serves as chairwoman of the Pennsylvania State Freedom Caucus, is leading the charge against President Joe Biden’s executive order turning federal agencies into a get-out-the-vote army for his re-election.
‘The Most Important Election Integrity Lawsuit’
Keefer and her 26 legislative colleagues have sued the Biden administration, Pennsylvania leftist Gov. Josh Shapiro, and several state officials in federal court. They seek an injunction on Biden’s fiat that commands all federal “departments and agencies” to “partner” with state, local, tribal, and territorial election officials on voter registration and other GOTV initiatives.
Critics of the intrusion of federal powers call it “Bidenbucks,” a nod to Zuckerbucks, the piles of private donations that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped on local election offices. Biden claims his order is all about promoting the “exercise of the right to vote” and
