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Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Expanding 'Voter Access'
Townhall.com ^ | March 7, 2021 | Beth Bauman

Posted on 03/07/2021 10:45:31 AM PST by Kaslin

resident Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting rights. It's the Biden administration's latest move to expand voting rights as they push the Senate to pass H.R. 1, the House Democrats' bill to radically transform America's election system, including prohibiting voter ID laws and mandating taxpayers fund political campaigns.

"It is the policy of my Administration to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections," the executive order stated. "It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to expand access to, and education about, voter registration and election information, and to combat misinformation, in order to enable all eligible Americans to participate in our democracy."

Agency heads will be required to post "relevant information" – like how to vote-by-mail and vote in an upcoming election – on websites and social media platforms. Those who visit vote.gov will be directed to the appropriate state website that provides greater details on how to vote in that individual state. 

Election officials are encouraged to distribute voter registration and voting-by-mail applications and help voters fill out those applications if need be. The executive order also instructs election officials to "solicit and facilitiat[e] approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises."

Federal prisoners who are currently incarcerated with be educated on their voting rights, including whether or not they will be restored once their sentence is completed. Those who are eligible to vote will be registered to do so.

The executive order also establishes an "Interagency Steering Group on Native American Voting Rights" aimed at "protecting voting rights of Native Americans." The committee will include the attorney general, interior secretary, agriculture secretary, labor secretary, health and human services secretary and the VA secretary. Other agencies can be invited as needed. The steering committee's ultimate goal is to increase voter education, registration and turnout in the Native American communities.

Even though Biden wants the Senate to move forward with H.R. 1, a senior White House official told Fox News that the president's executive order can "stem that tide" of "state voter suppressive action.

"When I say that the president urges Congress to take action that would prevent states from attempts at voter suppression, that applies to all states, and it applies to making sure that the federal government and private litigants have the tools necessary to prevent restrictive voting action," the official said.

Republicans have opposed H.R. 1 because of the lack of voting protections, including requiring an ID to vote, and allowing convicted felons to vote once their sentence is completed. Other areas of concern include expanding early voting and voting by mail, something the GOP sees as a hotbed for voter fraud.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: articlex; bidenadmin; executiveorder; hr1; impeachbiden; joebiden; presidentbiden; presidentharris; voterfraud; voterid; voting; votingbymail
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To: xp38

21 posted on 03/07/2021 11:02:39 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Well those state level employees were able to get it done for the 2020 election. This is just to get the ball rolling ahead of 2022 and a little armtwist to republicans to back off.


22 posted on 03/07/2021 11:03:36 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: xp38

The leftists have the Media, the Courts, the FBI/CIA/DOJ and most SBOE helping them cheat. Who do we have?


23 posted on 03/07/2021 11:06:04 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Who doesn’t matter

“What” is what matters. “What” are the cities. “What” are all the institutions including mainline churches and the nonprofits...... all that control our lives.

The solution is revolution. Maga must become a living leftist killing entity

Resist, resist, resist


24 posted on 03/07/2021 11:10:32 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Assistant Democrats (GOPe) helping them cheat...../s


25 posted on 03/07/2021 11:12:37 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kaslin

Cheating by diktat.


26 posted on 03/07/2021 11:14:50 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (American gun owners number more than the top 10 armies combined. What's Biden's enforcement plan?)
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To: Kaslin

How many of Biden’s EOs have been enjoined by federal judges? One I can think of is all....


27 posted on 03/07/2021 11:16:47 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Trump's Plan. )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

*shudder* There goes my appetite for the rest of the day.


28 posted on 03/07/2021 11:17:28 AM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: COBOL2Java

Actually I have been impressed by the quality of education you can get from a community college. I know two people who went their first two years to a community college. They really studied hard, got straight A’s and later transferred to a four year university with full scholarships. They saved a lot of money and both said the community college gave them a good preparation. One of those student was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and had already earned some credits toward her master’s degree.


29 posted on 03/07/2021 11:23:48 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: kiryandil

   joe "piked" biden

30 posted on 03/07/2021 11:24:39 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: Kaslin

More theft of elections by allowing non-citizens to vote. Democrats are the enemy, folks.


31 posted on 03/07/2021 11:26:17 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Kaslin

“Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed at Expanding ‘Voter Access’”

I imagine that includes illegals and all the people in shit holes who want to eventually come to this country.


32 posted on 03/07/2021 11:26:31 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ladyjane

“Does Dr. Jill Biden really have a Ph.D? I thought it was an EdD.”

She’s a doctor of kindergarten.


33 posted on 03/07/2021 11:35:30 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: mewzilla

That’s why there are only Democrats on the ballot in California.


34 posted on 03/07/2021 11:47:55 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: kiryandil

We’ve got a pool started in my family. My date is May 26.


35 posted on 03/07/2021 11:48:35 AM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Kaslin

Agency heads will be required to post “relevant information” – like how to vote-by-mail and vote in an upcoming election – on websites and social media platforms...... Election officials are encouraged to distribute voter registration and voting-by-mail applications and help voters fill out those applications if need be.
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Right....

I’ve always thought that there should be a ‘means test’ of say 10 random questions that a voter should have to answer correctly at the voting station before being allowed to vote....


36 posted on 03/07/2021 11:51:50 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Kaslin

They’d sure demand voter ID if Republicans were doing the cheating.


37 posted on 03/07/2021 11:55:55 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Kaslin

Dictator Biden signs another diktat.

And the stupid Democrats called Trump a dictator.


38 posted on 03/07/2021 11:58:41 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Biden's favorite word: What?)
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To: Kaslin

usurping all 50 states’ legislatures.


39 posted on 03/07/2021 12:07:11 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Kaslin

if voter participation is the measure of freedom, North Korea is the most free society in the world.
Everybody must vote there!


40 posted on 03/07/2021 12:11:37 PM PST by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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