Posted on 11/27/2020 12:38:56 PM PST by Eagle Forgotten
The House passed a Democrat-backed bill that would require election systems to use voter-verified paper ballots as an attempt to avoid election interference by a party-line vote of 225-184 on Tuesday, with only one Republican voting in favor.
The Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act — spearheaded by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) — would authorize $600 million for the Election Assistance Commission, which would be allocated to states to enhance their security ahead of 2020 and includes language that would ban voting machines from being connected to the internet and being produced in foreign countries.
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“I want to highlight the fact that there's no evidence of voting machines being hacked in 2016, 2018 or ever,” [Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.)] added. “So why are we forcing states to get rid of what they deem the safe technology? We should work together to safeguard technology, not abandon it.”
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The irony is that the bill never became law because Mitch McConnell didn't even let it come to a vote. The GOPe was completely okay with hackable EVMs as long as they were confident that the beneficiaries of vote rigging would all be Republicans.
For 2021: Will a bill like this now pass the Senate, only to be buried by Pelosi? Could happen.
Maybe this bill was passed by the Liberals as a cover for what they knew was going to happen.
To be honest -> I'm sure there are plenty of Republicans guilty of all this stuff too. Who knows - maybe Kemp won this way? Maybe Stacey made a deal - couldn't prove it but they agreed this election was her turn to control the knobs.
I'm not saying that's TRUE ... just that the fact that it's entirely plausible means that -> YES dem policy will destroy the country, but that doesn't mean much of the Republican party is not disgusting and corrupt too.
The bill has to have some security-undermining features hidden somewhere in the fine print, for the Democrats to have passed it.
Yep let the democrats use it and the ban it so it can’t be used against them.
Democrats have been the election-fraud party since at least 1960. If they were for the 2019 bill, it was a scam.
“Voter-verified paper ballots” do not equal security. This is what they used in CA in 2020, when the State mailed unsolicited ballots for every registration, no matter how out-of-date or duplicate. The ballots were easily harvested.
I’m glad that they voted for using paper ballots.
However, what is in the legislation that prevented Republicans from voting in favour?
The Dominion system uses paper ballots, doesn’t it? Wondering if this legislation would have pushed the states into adopting the Dominion systems.
What does the bill say beyond the first paragraph? I trust nothing coming from democraps. No doubt it had voting for Guatemalans and banning signature and/or ID checking.
I’ve never liked voting machines. I’m OK with hand filled ballots and tabulator boxes like they use in NM where you keep the original ballots in case of recounts, but I’ve seen it myself where the stupid computerized machines will be at least defective and try to register the wrong vote. And do you really trust or know whether it’s actually tabulating the vote you selected? An ink and paper hand-filled ballot is visible and obvious to the voter.
This has been mentioned a number of times, with the comments being that other provisions within it would have mandated compromise of the election systems nation-wide, instead of just the states that did it to themselves.
I do not trust any “Election Assistance Commission.” On the face of it, a swipe at the common citizen deemed incapable of voting and counting. This commission is in need of investigation, and most likely dismemberment. Who are these people? What are their convictions?
Is this the bill that allowed ballot harvesting everywhere?
The ProgsDems always play the long game. It may be a perfectly honest bill. But the Dems goal is to federalize elections. Once the fed controls elections then the elections will be run by those who control the Fed i.e. Democrats.
Once the Dems control the election they can then go full Banana Republic.
If memory serves me, (and I admit that it’s not what it once was) the GOP rejected the election security bill because it did not address voter I.D., had mandatory mail-in (permanent) and nationwide ballot harvesting. As with everything cooked up by the Demon rats, it was anything BUT the title of the bill.
Exactly.
And the facts that nearly every House Republican voted against it and that the Senate Majority Leader would not let it come up for a vote are telltale signs that the details smelled to high heaven.
Lol the fox changed the locks on the henhouse
That will go nowhere in Senate!!
The U.S. Constitution already has it covered. If States can’t certify their elections due to unlawful elections, including recent Federal law of internet use, then they lose representation in the Electoral College. Period. .
Interesting.
Twelve and Fourteenth amendments. Signing of those two EOs back in 2018.
13849 or six, not sure.
We live in interesting times.
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