Posted on 03/25/2020 7:13:42 AM PDT by karpov
Nancy Pelosi is not going to let this public health crisis go to waste. The house speaker is holding much-needed economic relief hostage to gain for Democrats something they have long yearned for: more federal control over state elections.
In a bill ostensibly intended to save American jobs, Pelosi and her Senate allies crammed a wish list of bad election and voting reforms, including mandatory early voting, mandatory voting by mail, and the legalization of California-style ballot harvesting. Pelosi is taking the country closer to federalized elections than ever before.
What’s in it for them? It creates a one-stop shop to engineer the rules of the game. They believe that if they can manipulate the rules, they can manipulate the outcome of the election. This is their ultimate ticket to defeating Trump. Democrats seem willing to let the economy, and your livelihood, continue to flounder.
By constitutional design, states administer their own elections. States decide how we vote and when. This design preserves federalism and individual liberties. It’s hard to engineer the rules of the game when there are 50 different playing fields with unique needs and demographics. What works for South Dakota could fail in New York.
Pelosi knows that federal control makes imposing her political will on a national basis a much easier task. Her reforms are not only fundamentally at odds with the founders’ design — they are bad policy.
For example, Pelosi’s bill would legalize ballot harvesting. This practice allows any person to collect and turn in someone else’s ballot with little limit on how many voters a single agent is working for. In 2018, Democrats used California’s newly enacted ballot-harvesting rules to flip seven red districts blue. Pelosi’s plan says states must accept unlimited ballot harvesting everywhere.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Its going back to the house now. This is where this garbage will be inserted back into it.
Yurtle didn’t expose this? Veto it, Mr. President! We got your back!
IIRC; Elections are under State control per The Constitution.
Trump has said he will VETO the Bill if it is loaded with this type of garbage.
It sounds like part of the deal in passing this in the Senate is to have it “Voice Voted” out of the House with no changes.
Unspeakable evil.
POWER-MAD PELOSI HYPES VOTER FRAUD ON THE BACKS OF STRUGGLING AMERICANS.
<><>B/H allows anyone to collect and turn in someone else’s ballot with no limits.
<><> one trick is absentee ballots sent to PO boxes. The box holder discards the ballot which is then retrieved by ballot harvesters.
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IMPLANTING WEAKNESSES IN THE VOTING PROCESS THAT DEMOCRAPS EXPLOIT TO STEAL SEATS
<><> Ranked voting
<><>Mail in ballots
<><>Early voting
<><> Motor voter and post office registration
<><> Unwillingness to cleanse voter rolls
<><> Making election day a holiday
<><>Expansions of absentee voting
<><>Expanded voting hours
<><>Resistance to voter ID laws
Consider the following quote, widely attributed to the USSR’s Communist leader Joseph Stalin: “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.”
The party that “never lets a crisis go to waste”, surely sees this crisis as a huge windfall.
GET TESTED!
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Savage Beast is savage :)
I want to know only 1 thing:
Is the ballot harvesting, same day voter registration and/or mail in ballots still in there???
That was the purpose for the Pelosi bill from the start - all else was throwaway. I called it immediately and I hope I’m wrong. We will see how faithful the turtle and the rest of the GOP is...the good thing to come out of this mess is that they are all showing their true colors.
Also returned every one of their prepaid envelopes attached to wrapped up bricks and fence post cut offs.
They stopped soliciting me after a while.
We might just win NY and Ca.
Collecting votes is another matter.
Mailing my sample today. I am being very generous. Wish it wasn’t so watery....and green...
Too late, buddy!
Already in the mail. Also left a note on the letter giving you credit for spreading the word on this amazing deal.
Pelosi’s plan says states must accept unlimited ballot harvesting everywhere.
Why would anyone sign that bill $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ???
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