Posted on 07/19/2023 1:20:11 AM PDT by Libloather
House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced an election overhaul package, in a rebuke to Republicans who, according to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, are seeking to “turn back the clock” on democracy.
Jeffries was joined by fellow New Yorker and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other Democratic leaders to tout the Freedom to Vote Act, which they said would expand voter access, support local election workers and limit the influence of dark money and partisan gerrymandering on elections.
“Democracy is facing unprecedented threats,” Schumer said at the news conference in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room of the Senate, surrounded by Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Tim Kaine of Virginia, as well as Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and other members of the House.
“Keeping our democracy is more important than anything else because everything flows from it,” Schumer continued, announcing the bills would be designated S 1, the highest legislative priority in the Senate, and HR 11, the highest legislative priority for the minority party in the House. “We know that in order to make real progress on the issues we care about, the foundation of our democracy must be strong.”
The Freedom to Vote Act would set nationwide standards to ensure voting access and expand the availability of early voting, voting by mail and drop boxes. It would provide funds for states to invest in new and more secure voting systems, stronger cybersecurity measures and additional election workers. It would also implement nonpartisan post-election audits, require super PACs and other political organizations to disclose their donors and prohibit partisan gerrymandering, among other proposals that proponents said would ward off Republican attempts to undermine democracy.
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Mz. Malarkey agrees.
I’m sure that neither Schumer nor Jeffries should be allowed to vote.
On anything.
The bill is pecker puss Pelosi’s HR 1 all over again. It nationalizes all the tactics used in blue states to undermine vote integrity. Where ever Democrats imposed mail in voting in blue states, Republicans never won again. The bill should be called the establishing a permanent Democrat majority rule.
Yet another example of how Democrats are largely treasonous filth worthy of the same fate as the Rosenbergs.
Let it die, in the house!
In Ye Olde Days of, gasp, newwspapers, there was the page of daiily, and on Sunday, weekly, cartoons and commentary strpis, the grandads of today’s ‘memes’.
One of these cartoons has come to mind with the sitting administration and its attempt to reegulate anything that is both oving and breathing and thinking freely.
The cartoon title was, “There Oughts Be A Law”, as in ‘there oughta be a law agin’ that.’
Is Grandather Ime repeating himself?
What about all those good citizens that are happier with a less repressive government?
What happeneedt to ‘ mind your own business and leave me the heck alone’?
No, sorry folks, this here gov’mint wants all of us under the watchful eye of good ol’ candie-land, with ol’ Stephen doin’ the watchin’!
YAWN!
Do the RATS really want this. “...nonpartisan post-election audits, require super PACs and other political organizations to disclose their donors...”
Institutionalizing The Steal.
If it’s HR1 all over again, look for it to have the RCV provisions...
That part won’t be law for long if The Steal is institutionalized.
Or it will be ignored.
It is unconstitutional, elections are run my the several states not the federal government.
Freedom to Vote Act is like the Inflation Reduction Act
People are so gullible
Be nice to turn back the clock. 21st century sucks.
We should all be MAGA extremists. Let the whiny Democrats live with it.
“Jeffries was joined by fellow New Yorker and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other Democratic leaders to tout the Freedom to Vote Act, which they said would expand voter access, support local election workers and limit the influence of dark money and partisan gerrymandering on elections.”
Here is my proposal for this. Vote by county. Most votes for the county gets one point. Most points won gets the electoral vote. Now, everyone can vote as often as they want, but the firewall is at the county level.
As an example, let’s say Los Angeles County, a blue county has 9 million people of voting age. Now lets say, Los Angeles County received 11 million votes, 9 million of them for Biden. It is worth one point. Now if Biden wins the majority of counties in California, he gets the electoral votes. But if Trump wins the most counties, he gets the electoral votes.
So, for Democrats, this solves for “everyone can vote” proposal, it has a built in firewall, and with that, authorities can now localize the cheating and take action.
It’s a simple as that.
“ are seeking to “turn back the clock” on democracy.“
I am fine with this. They can shove “their democracy” where the sun doesn’t shine.
with turncoat GOPe will become reality. Just a matter of time.
There is no fallback position
There is no rally point
There is no LZ for extraction
You have been abandoned in the field and are on your own
Think plan and act accordingly
Nonsense.
If enough people were that gullible, Deep Srare wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?
But it certainly suits Deep State to have us think ill of our fellow citizens.
...Deep State...
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