Posted on 03/31/2021 3:14:15 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Executive order requires agencies to boost registration efforts
President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.
Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce "relevant information" on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice "a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation" within 200 days under the terms of the order.
"Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process," the order states. "The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation."
It requires agencies to distribute registration and vote-by-mail ballot application forms, as well as to assist any applicants in completing the forms. It also pushes agencies to allow "approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."
Biden arrived in the White House thanks in large part to the record number of mail-in ballots in the 2020 election. Former president Donald Trump led in many major swing states at the close of Election Day, only to see his lead evaporate as mail-in ballots were counted that heavily favored Biden.
Critics of Biden's order warned that it represents a massive federal government overreach into election policies put in place by state lawmakers. Chase Martin, legal affairs director for the Foundation for Government Accountability, said the order is "an overly broad federal mandate."
"The order is about inflicting the federal government's will on the states," Martin said. "There's a ton of room for this process to be abused."
The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment on the order.
Rice has come under fire for her tenure as national security adviser under the Obama administration. Republicans have criticized her handling of the Benghazi crisis and the Bowe Bergdahl hostage exchange as well as her alleged attempts to reveal the identities of Trump campaign and administration officials. Rice denied that she leaked any names or identities and said she only obtained information to add context to intelligence reports she received.
The order comes in the midst of political fighting over the future of voting rights and election security. Biden criticized a new election law in Georgia, which created regulations on in-person and mail-in voting, as racist. He accused Georgia Republicans of re-creating "Jim Crow in the 21st century." A Washington Post fact check of Biden's criticisms found that Biden misrepresented the Georgia law's impacts on early voting. The Post awarded Biden four Pinocchios after voting experts said the final bill expanded opportunities for early voting. That has not stopped several groups from filing lawsuits against the Georgia law, alleging that Republican lawmakers put the law in place after Democrats won the state in the presidential election as well as two runoff elections in January.
The Brennan Center for Justice found that as of mid-February 2021, 43 states are considering bills that seek to limit mail-in voting or impose voter ID requirements on in-person voting. Republican lawmakers have defended these laws as protecting the integrity of the voting process while Democratic lawmakers argue that the laws are intended to suppress turnout, specifically in minority communities, by making voting more difficult.
Congressional Democrats are pushing a sweeping legislative effort that would drastically overhaul voter registration processes and place more authority in the hands of the federal government. The bill would also alter laws concerning political speech, which lawyers for the ACLU warned could have negative impacts on activist groups. Martin said the executive order represents a hedge from Biden in case the election reform bill does not get through the Senate.
"It's one of Biden's telegraphed moves to enforce a governance by decree," he said.
The Supreme Court has ruled that voting laws are best left to states, rather than the federal executive branch. Justices repeatedly rejected the Trump administration's challenges to state election rules in the run-up to the 2020 election. Martin said that the federal government's stepping in to influence state law could threaten the ability of states to adjust to changing circumstances.
"The Supreme Court has constantly punted to the states and allowed states to create their own election systems as long as they respect the Constitution. As long as there isn't a specific federal law on the issue, states are free to create their own processes, strengthen their own voter integrity systems, develop measures to get out the votes, the administration process," Martin said.
LOL
Get behind the Convention of States and pass a Constitutional Amendment that says that voting by mail may not be used except under certain exceptions, like members of active duty military posted out of the country.
I haven’t heard the Convention of States mentioned lately but I would think, considering the current atmosphere, that getting it to happen may be the only way to save our country.
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Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but this is never going to happen! We saw very few Republicans even lift a finger to question Biden stealing the election!
There will be no more legitimate elections in this country, and the Democrats will NEVER, ever be out of power again!
They cheated with ease in November 2020. The die has been cast!
Great post!
The same one who willingly lied for her former America-hating boss.
The Obama coup plotters are back in power.....Susan Rice was a central figure in the illegal plot to frame and destroy Trump and everyone around him starting before he was even the Republican nominee for President. .....and the sick crowning glory of the four-year coup d’etat seating the unelected Joe Biden as Pres......At every turn of the attempt to destroy Trump, Rice and her Obama minions have been there, feeding the fire.....This is the final descent of American political life into the swamp of third world level corruption.
Additionally Susan Rice was at the center of every Foreign Policy fiasco for Obama’s 8 years.... Syria. Libya. Iraq. Isis. The slaughter of the Yazidi’s. The loss of Crimea. The rise of China. and its partnership with Russia, and China’s two fortified islands with military bases in the South China Sea.
The same people who brought Lois Lerner and the IRS, wingman Eric Holder and Fast and Furious, Lorretta Lynch on the Tarmac and James Comey at the FISA court are back in control.
OH like she did Benghazi?
I'm not kidding. No joke.
How is voter registration any of these agencies’ business and where have they obtained the budget to do this work? This is like making moslem outreach NASA’s core business.
If King Joe can direct the agencies to do any arbitrary activity as if they’re his personal political tool, is there any limit on his authority whatsoever?
Would it be OK if he directed them to submit “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote the eradication of whiteness”?
Three pubbie senators, (Packwood, Specter, Hatfield) put the Motor Voter act over the top of a filibuster.
The precedent of flooding the zone with illegals was set in 1993.
Further erosion was as certain as sunrise tomorrow.
Neither of those are possible.
You need a more achievable plan.
This is their main priority: To amass unadulterated power and expand and solidify it by institutionalizing the type of cheating that occurred in the 2020 election. This is ALL they set out to do and spend their efforts on, while throwing money at the masses to keep their attention on how to spend it. Yet while the 2020 was obviously stolen by Democrats and “Republicans” who worked in cahoots with them, it is imperative to ask if the RINOS are always going to be in cahoots with the Democrats in stealing elections, or is this an occurrance confined to Trump, with the potential to be used against any true outsider that dares run and govern against the whims of the establishments within both parties, the globalists, special interest groups, corporate America, and Wall Street.
Actually, I am about of that train of thought. I think we are about to vote for nothing because I am coming to the opinion that all the elections of great importance will be rigged. That is why they are allowing all these illegals into the country and then farming them out to various places around the country. The liberals flocked down to Atlanta and took over GA. Now I believe Texas and all those electoral votes are next. Then Florida, and Ohio. Possible swing states like PA, IN, Mich, Wisc, etc will get thousands of illegals to vote for the Marxists. It is going to be rigged. They will spend the next two years getting ready to rig the House and Senate votes so they don’t lose those. The attack on the South will come because we are the only solid republican/conservative/patriot areas left.
It’s a rig or be rigged world.
Best baizou byden post EVER!
We already call them on cheating and corrupting the vote.. The Department of Justice told us to pound sand.. So, what do we do now.??
A well chosen criminal for the job.
Has she already blamed Trump for making a video just before the presidential election which dissed liberal voters and caused them to riot and become insurrectionists?
This woman is crazy and a threat to American security as well as voting integrity.
More proof that Biden/Harris are batshit crazy and that Obama planted his ‘reds’ deep enough in his administration to grow again when called upon to betray our country, AGAIN.
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