Posted on 05/22/2019 7:54:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller confirming Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election, we are enjoying broad bipartisan consensus on the need to improve election security.
But instead of capitalizing on this national consensus to guard against future election interference, House Democrats are leveraging that consensus to facilitate a massive power grab. They are cynically using the fear of Russian interference as a pretext to pass legislation designed to help Democrats win elections.
The Democratic legislation is H.R. 1 – the For the People Act. It is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s signature bill of the 116th Congress.
What Pelosi, D-Calif., and her fellow Democrats are calling an election security bill is actually a bid to seize control of local elections, prohibit measures that prevent voter fraud, and compel the use of ballot handling procedures that are easily manipulated. It's all one big power grab.
Democrats are obviously banking on the idea that most Americans have not read H.R. 1, which they and their allies market as an election security bill, but which reduces our ability to detect and deter fraud.
The notion that this bill will do anything to deter the Russians, other foreign powers, or even the guy in a van down by the river from messing with our elections is laughable. The bill is little more than an open invitation for election interference.
The number of suspect provisions in the legislation is too large to fully discuss here, but let's look at a few examples.
Under the provisions of H.R. 1, all jurisdictions are compelled to use no-fault absentee ballots, which can be conveniently filled out and submitted from home.
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Election security? As in Voter ID?
The best way to corrupt and manipulate elections is to centralize and standardize them.
This will be done in the name of “fairness” and “protecting it from foreign interference.”
In fact, it will be a huge statist/leftist/central-government power grab.
As always, the real intent and effect is the exact opposite of the name. It's really a "Not for the People Act" or "Against the People Act."
The demokkkrats are the party of waste, fraud and corruption. Always have been, apparently always will be.
The Democratic legislation is H.R. 1 – the For Screw the People Act.
The bastards are trying to destroy the country.
What colossal nerve they have. They present it in such a way that everyone will have an opportunity to vote without the scale being tipped by Russia. But they really are negating the vote of law-abiding citizens by making it easier for any Democrat anywhere, living or dead, to vote here.
That's a tough sell.
confirming Russian interference in our 2016 presidential election,
Really? How? Did the change or alter ballots anywhere? Did they sabotage voting machines or alter the result anywhere? Did they pay any individual voters anywhere to vote in some manner? If so who and where?
Trump should follow Jeh Johnson’s suggestion and secure the election infrastructure in the 200 mile wide Border Zone, since there was clear evidence of Mexican interference in the last (and previous) elections. This would require a Federally supervised “do over” of voter registration. The Mexicans made massive use of California’s online registration (500,000 registrations in the last 48 hours of the registration period alone). All online registrations in the Border Zone should be declared null and void.
You’re right. It’s a scheme to subvert our democracy from the inside out.
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