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Harvesting the 2020 Election
WSJ ^ | 12 Nov 2020 | Kimberly A Strassel

Posted on 11/14/2020 1:41:01 PM PST by Rummyfan

Mrs. Pelosi unveiled a 600-plus page bill devoted to “election reform.” Some of the legislation was aimed at weaponizing campaign-finance law, giving Democrats more power to control political speech and to intimidate opponents. But the bill was equally focused on empowering the federal government to dictate how states conduct elections—with new rules designed to water down ballot integrity and to corral huge new tranches of Democratic voters.

The bill would require states to offer early voting. They also would have to allow Election Day and online voter registration, diluting the accuracy of voting rolls. H.R. 1 would make states register voters automatically from government databases, including federal welfare recipients. Colleges and universities were designated as voter-registration hubs, and 16-year-olds would be registered to vote two years in advance. The bill would require “no fault” absentee ballots, allowing anyone to vote by mail, for any reason. It envisioned prepaid postage for federal absentee ballots. It would cripple most state voter-ID laws. It left in place the “ballot harvesting” rules that let paid activists canvass neighborhoods to hoover up absentee votes.

Democrats grandly named their bill the For The People Act, but conservatives had better titles. This page called it the “Majority Preservation Act,” while the editors at National Review described it as an “Unconstitutional, Authoritarian Power Grab.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell decried the bill as a “naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party,” and dubbed it the “Democrat Politician Protection Act.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; electionfraud
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Mrs. Pelosi’s bill didn’t become law, despite her attempts this year to jam some of its provisions into coronavirus bills. But it turns out she didn’t really need it. Using the virus as an excuse, Democratic and liberal groups brought scores of lawsuits to force states to adopt its provisions. Many Democratic politicians and courts happily agreed. States mailed out ballots to everyone. Judges disregarded statutory deadlines for receipt of votes. They scrapped absentee-ballot witness requirements. States set up curbside voting and drop-off boxes. They signed off on ballot harvesting.
1 posted on 11/14/2020 1:41:01 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

later


2 posted on 11/14/2020 1:44:02 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: Rummyfan

Institutionalizing fraud. Ya gotta love that shriveled up old bat.


3 posted on 11/14/2020 1:45:54 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Rummyfan

And we got a total fraud election as everyone knew.


4 posted on 11/14/2020 1:50:50 PM PST by rlbedfor
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To: Rummyfan

There is no provision in the Constitution for plague rules or pandemic exceptions.

Vote where you live. In person. With voter ID. On election day.


5 posted on 11/14/2020 1:51:06 PM PST by calenel (Tree of Liberty is thirsty.)
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The sooner she joins that other liberal scum RBG the better for the USA!


6 posted on 11/14/2020 1:51:23 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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7 posted on 11/14/2020 1:57:41 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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8 posted on 11/14/2020 1:57:53 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Thanks to Travis Mc Gee for these election night realities!

https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/816/199/original/060b7853e59e8068.jpg


9 posted on 11/14/2020 2:05:38 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( Governors certify the electoral votes! Congress declares the winners! Not the left wing mediotsh)
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To: Rummyfan
Under the Constitution, the State Legislature has sole authority to select Electors, and elections are to take place on a single Day.

US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2: Method of choosing electors:

"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector."
US Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, Clause 4: Election day:
"The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

10 posted on 11/14/2020 2:06:08 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the world's problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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There was no presidential election.

An election is a covenant among the electors that from time to time they may elect the person manage affairs put under the care of the office they seek, by casting ballots at a time and place that is agreed upon, with each person getting one vote and a fair process for counting the votes and determining the winner.

When you break the rules and commit fraud it is no longer a voluntary agreement among the electors.

11 posted on 11/14/2020 2:14:11 PM PST by AndyJackson
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This is why everyone coping that we need to just focus on 2022 is wrong. There WON’T BE ANOTHER FAIR ELECTION again.


12 posted on 11/14/2020 2:16:51 PM PST by Shadow44
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Something tells me the electoral college is going to be fuster cluck...like the rest of 2020


13 posted on 11/14/2020 2:18:24 PM PST by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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Mrs. Pelosi unveiled a 600-plus page bill ...

The fact of the matter is ... Look, here's the deal: If Mrs. Pelosi can perfectly recite word-for-word, from memory, all 600-plus pages of her newly-unveiled bill (without any aid from Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden's BLM/Antifa-controlled teleprompter), then I'll be her bill's #1 supporter. Otherwise, not so much. Not a joke. For real. That's a bunch of malarkey! C'mon, man!

14 posted on 11/14/2020 2:25:42 PM PST by gw-ington
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They used the FEAR of a disease they MISREPRESENTED, supported by COMMUNIST friends from China and the WHO and Dr. Fascist-— to inflate the severity of the spread, and also the mortality.

And they STILL want to use it to CONTAIN us. Keep it up— there is a good deal of lead poisoning that will be coming their way. Disgusting animali this whore that is the botoxian.

Absentee ballot witness requirements-— that seems verrrrry democratic to scrap those. So a vote is counted from wherever it was made up. Thieves. Time for hand chopping off to begin.


15 posted on 11/14/2020 2:40:17 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Dick Bachert
That graphic about the Democrat "Dump Trump" Game Plan captures a lot but ignores a very critical part of the sprawling Democrat Party Cabal's 2020 election-year strategy:

For literally no reason, the Harris/biden-supported violent Marxist Black Lives Matter/Antifa thug mob riot organization, during the CCP Kung-Flu global pandemic invasion of the U.S., perpetrated nationwide riots in cities throughout the U.S. that continue to this day. Then, the entire Democrat Party Cabal hypocritically blamed (and continues blaming) President Trump for divisively "stoking" those six-month-long BLM/Antifa Biden-voter riots.

That was a very critical part of the Democrat Party Cabal's 2020 election-year strategy. Their ongoing BLM/Antifa violent riots were meant to scare American voters into voting for Biden (otherwise, the implied threat is the nationwide violent BLM/Antifa wild riots will continue). The BLM/Antifa riots were also used to constantly say the following idiotic line to American voters: If you think Black Lives Matter, then you must vote for Joe "Caring & Unifying" Biden, not the "evil racist" Donald Trump. All part of George Soros's master plan. The Democrats are not smart enough to concoct a plan of a half-year of nationwide violent riots -- but George Soros is. After all, Soros has seen this play out time and time again, over seven decades, in many countries throughout the world. So when the election-year plan was presented to Democrats, they thought, "Yeah, that's pure genius -- wish we could have thought of it ourselves!"

16 posted on 11/14/2020 2:47:49 PM PST by gw-ington
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To: Rummyfan

Must be she had this in her desk all along. Either that, or she’s one hellaciously fast typist or dictator (double entendre intentional).


17 posted on 11/14/2020 2:48:03 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (To be good, you've got to be tough as boots. - Jordan Peterson)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Sometimes you just have to use bullets instead of ballots.


18 posted on 11/14/2020 2:59:55 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. I always order the fried oyster when available.)
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To: gw-ington

Yes, you’re right. I missed it and those demonstrations of VIOLENCE were designed to let decent folk know that they were ready, willing and able to do more if we failed to let them have their way. I suspect they probably have cowed folks who might otherwise rat them out or resist them.
I can assure you that if Trump is successful and they start their shit again in THIS area, they’d better have their wills and affairs in order!
Just sayin’!


19 posted on 11/14/2020 3:23:39 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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20 posted on 11/14/2020 3:59:32 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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