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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Any time democrats talk about voter access we should all be very worried.
The only audit I’m interested in is asking people whose votes were recorded whether they actually voted.
Do the RATS really want this. “...nonpartisan post-election audits, require super PACs and other political organizations to disclose their donors...”
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Could be more rules for us but not for them.
In other words: the democratic party permanent one party tyrannical rule.
If Schumer is all for it, it has to be disastrous.
So true.
“Voter access” is just more of their orwellian language which really means, “make it easier for people, our people, to cheat at the elections”
I see Democrats are determined to ignite a full blown Civil war...again.
Sorry Hakeem but the clock stopped on your style “democrazy” a long, long time ago after the Soviet Union fell.
Anyone who thinks the United States of America is a democracy is ignorant.
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.” - Benjamin Franklin - close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation.
“Yet another example of how Democrats are largely treasonous filth worthy of the same fate as the Rosenbergs.”
Exactly. And any Democrat still in the treason party is equally guilty, in my opinion. They choose to align with traitors, vermin and cretins.
He got one thing right - we need to turn back the clock to saner days. Whatever they have in mind ‘ain’t workin’’
So says the “House N****r” of the Democrat Plantation.
Can vouch for Oregon. All the homeless are rounded up and given early ballots with helpful “assistants” to make sure they properly fill out the ballots. The ballots are then taken to drop boxes where they are needed on election day to give the democrat just enough votes to win. Every close result is always given to the democrat.
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