Avenues to Voter Fraud Have No Place in Coronavirus Bill [March 2020]

Heritage Foundation ^ | March 25, 2020 | By Hans A. von Spakovsky, J. Christian Adams

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We always knew that liberals considered federalizing control over elections to be an important priority. We just never dreamed it was more important than fighting the coronavirus pandemic or preserving American jobs.

When Democrats took control of the House after the 2018 election, one of the many bad ideas they crammed into HR 1, the very first bill out of the chute, included “reforms” that would help Washington micromanage all elections.

Those reforms that will make it easier to manipulate election outcomes and commit fraud - mandatory early voting, mail ballots, and same-day registration, as well as legalization of ballot harvesting - are now back in play, as part of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s massive $2.5 trillion coronavirus bill.

Voting by mail is the single worst form of election possible. It moves the entire election beyond the oversight of election officials and into places where the most vulnerable can be exploited by political operatives.

Pelosi’s plan would smash key safeguards to clean elections. Not only would the bill bar states from requiring notarization or witness signatures on absentee ballots, it would ban any type of ID requirement. Moreover, it would require states to allow completed absentee ballots to be picked up by candidates, political consultants, and party activists (ballot harvesting).

If states want early voting, they have the power to decide that under our Constitution, as many of them already have. The Founders wanted decentralized elections because they protect individual liberty. That’s the beauty of our system. States adapt solutions to fit the needs of their particular states.

Coronavirus legislation should focus on preserving American jobs, fighting the virus, and empowering health care providers, not federalizing control over elections and weakening the integrity of the process for political gain.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

We are witnessing a fundamental transformation coming to fruition. Our voting system has been taken over by globalists, communists, anarchists and worse.

[MAGAthon]

did they really win the House in the mid-terms? maybe.

however, how come President Trump was still under 24/7 FakeNewsMSM/Deep State attack over “Russia collusion” when it was public knowledge long before the mid-terms that HILLARY CLINTON/DNC/DEEP STATE manufactured the so-called Steele Dossier? might that not have hurt the GOP’s chances of keeping the House?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The dominant media narratives in the 2018 midterms were “manufactured crisis” on the border and “Mueller investigation”.

Both were CRAP. Totally BOGUS. But they worked for the parasites.