{"id":4529,"date":"2026-06-03T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/sen-moreno-praises-colombias-voter-id-system-no-mail-in-ballots\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:06:36","slug":"sen-moreno-praises-colombias-voter-id-system-no-mail-in-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/sen-moreno-praises-colombias-voter-id-system-no-mail-in-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Moreno Praises Colombia&#8217;s Voter ID System, No Mail-In Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ohio Republican made his assessment during a media briefing on Tuesday, according to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, where he outlined his experiences monitoring the election and addressed fraud allegations leveled by outgoing Marxist President Gustavo Petro. Senator Moreno awarded Colombian election officials an &#8220;A+&#8221; grade for their conduct of the vote and rejected Petro&#8217;s refusal to accept the outcome, particularly noting that Petro&#8217;s chosen successor, Senator Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, had publicly defended the election&#8217;s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Moreno<\/strong> detailed an elaborate security infrastructure that includes mandatory federal identification for all voters, paper ballots with hand counting, and a complete prohibition on mail-in voting. Colombian citizens residing overseas must appear in person at consulates to cast ballots. The senator argued that America could substantially strengthen its own electoral security by adopting even a fraction of these safeguards, beginning with voter identification requirements. Congress is currently considering the SAVE America Act, which would align American voting standards more closely with Colombian practices, though Democrats have attacked the legislation as discriminatory and comparable to Jim Crow-era restrictions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2061207008729034786\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNE_COLOMBIA\/status\/2061207008729034786\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s first-round presidential voting featured all fourteen candidates on the ballot. With no candidate securing fifty percent or more of votes, the race will proceed to a runoff between the top two finishers. Outsider conservative candidate <strong>Abelardo de la Espriella<\/strong> won the first round with 43.74 percent, while Senator <strong>Iv\u00e1n Cepeda<\/strong> captured 40.90 percent to qualify for the second round. Establishment conservative Senator <strong>Paloma Valencia<\/strong> finished third and immediately endorsed de la Espriella.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moreno praised the Colombian electoral process as exemplary, as <em>Breitbart News<\/em> reports. He emphasized that Colombia requires one hundred percent proof of citizenship to obtain the national identification card that voters must present before receiving ballots. In polling locations where fraud concerns exist, authorities deploy fingerprint and facial recognition biometric systems for additional identity verification.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/t\/assets\/html\/tweet-5.html#2061179305950916860\" data-btlnk=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UltimaHoraCR\/status\/2061179305950916860\" class=\"bnn-if-tweet\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All ballots are counted manually using paper, with no electronic voting machines in operation, the senator explained. Colombia restricts voting to a single election day with no provision for mail-in ballots, except for overseas citizens who must vote in person at consulates.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio senator suggested that security protocols protecting Colombian electoral integrity could translate effectively to the American context. He characterized the SAVE America Act as modest compared to Colombia&#8217;s stringent standards, arguing that requiring voter identification and proof of citizenship does not constitute voter suppression.<\/p>\n<p>The SAVE America Act under congressional consideration would mandate proof of American citizenship for voter registration and require photo identification at polling places. The legislation would not establish a single federally mandated identification document as Colombia does, nor would it implement biometric verification systems in vulnerable districts. Democratic lawmakers have fiercely opposed these limited reforms, characterizing them as show-me-your-papers legislation reminiscent of post-Reconstruction laws that disenfranchised African Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Moreno noted that Colombia maintains significantly higher poverty rates than the United States yet achieved record voter participation. He suggested this reality undermines Democratic claims that the SAVE America Act would suppress voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Colombia&#8217;s robust election security measures, President <strong>Gustavo Petro<\/strong>\u2014who regularly touts his guerrilla terrorist background\u2014claimed both Sunday and Tuesday that he possessed evidence of electoral fraud damaging Cepeda&#8217;s campaign. While Cepeda himself and their shared party found no evidence of irregularities, Petro released an extensive Google spreadsheet on Tuesday purporting to validate his allegations. The outgoing president specifically accused the private electoral systems company Thomas Greg &#038; Sons of fabricating nearly one million phantom voters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Bernie Moreno praised Colombia&#8217;s electoral system as superior to America&#8217;s, citing voter ID requirements, paper ballots, and no mail-in voting after observing Sunday&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[3439,2806,4926,4542,2980,209,4925],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bernie-moreno","tag-colombia","tag-electoral-integrity","tag-gustavo-petro","tag-ohio","tag-united-states","tag-voter-id","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}