Nonpartisan watchdog releases report outlining top election security threats for 2024: 'A lot can go sideways'

FIRST ON FOX: A nonpartisan election integrity watchdog has released a detailed report outlining over a dozen "critical reforms" that need to be undertaken in states across the U.S. leading up to the 2024 election in order to "secure voter integrity."

"We believe very strongly in making it easier to vote and harder to cheat, and in order to do that, there's a comprehensive set of basic rules and safeguards that I believe every state should adopt and should follow," Honest Elections Project (HEP) Executive Director Jason Snead told Fox News Digital about the "Safeguarding Our Elections" report released on Friday.

"We've built everything in this report out over the last few years, talking with experts, working with states, seeing what works and what doesn't work, just as importantly, and then trying to bring it all together into a single, consolidated, concise piece of literature that you can drop this on the desk of lawmaker, and they can go out and they can get these reforms passed and make their elections work better the voters."

The report calls for "honest rules for honest elections" and lists 14 main areas that states should address, including banning ranked choice voting, blocking "Zuck Bucks 2.0," banning non-citizens from voting in elections, consolidating election dates, requiring voter ID, and protecting vulnerable mail ballots.

WYOMING SECRETARY OF STATE WARNS OF ELECTIONS' VULNERABILITY TO FOREIGN MONEY: 'DEEPLY DISTURBING'

The Honest Elections Project has long spoken out against left-wing nonprofit organizations funneling money into elections across the country, including what is known as "ZuckBucks" and its latest iteration, which is known by critics as "ZuckBucks 2.0."

"Elections should be accountable to the