Posted on 05/28/2021 11:10:40 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Nevada Democrats are ramming through legislation to make last year’s chaotic “emergency” voting procedures permanent.
On Wednesday, the Democrat-controlled General Assembly approved a measure that would legalize ballot harvesting and make universal mail-in voting a permanent fixture of elections, both changes that were initially implemented to be temporary last year.
Assembly Bill 321, now moving on for consideration in the upper chamber, requires registered voters to opt out rather than opt in to receiving a mail-in ballot. The law sets up ballots to be sent out automatically as they were in the fall, where nearly all votes cast were by mail, according to the Nevada Secretary of State’s office.
Former Nevada Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison said the potential changes threaten to undermine already battered faith in the state’s elections, which in 2020 saw confirmed cases of ballots cast by deceased voters. The Trump campaign charged 1,500 ballots were cast by dead voters, but subsequent investigations by local media and the Nevada secretary of state’s office, run by a Republican, did not find evidence to corroborate that number.
The potential legalization of ballot harvesting, Hutchison said, which was supposed to be a temporary rule change pushed by Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak in the name of a public health emergency, will erode confidence in subsequent contests.
“Last year’s pandemic-inspired changes have damaged the faith many Nevadans had in the electoral process,” Hutchison said in a Thursday statement. “Democrats and Governor Sisolak promised mailing unsolicited ballots and allowing paid partisan staffers to go door-to-door collecting strangers’ ballots would only be for emergencies, and less than a year they are going back on their word.”
The Nevada state Senate is also considering a bill to allow straight-ticket voting, which would offer residents the option to check a box for a particular party to automatically vote for each candidate of the chosen slate. This would set Nevada apart from the rest of the nation in moving away from what has become an outdated method to cast ballots.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, only six states offered voters the choice to vote by straight-ticket, while legislators in 16 others abolished the practice over the last two decades.
As Nevada lawmakers moved to make pandemic changes dictating elections permanent, Republican Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel railed the effort as “a recipe for disaster.” Mistakes in last year’s contest provoked an avalanche of litigation including ballots sent to outdated addresses.
Nevada, where President Joe Biden won by fewer than 34,000 votes, was one of the final states to certify the winner of its six electoral votes.
It makes the cheating easier.
Reagan: The closest thing to eternity in this life is a temporary government program.
Why? Because the media tells us so?
Democrats/Marxists/progressives just HATE free and fair elections.
Fidel Castro decided that because the people’s revolution was endangered by others, he would suspend regular elections and voting rules for the “emergency” as he became dictator. He outlived many leaders decades later before leaving office. Those “emergencies” can be long ones.
Article lines: May 1, 2017 — Fifty-six years ago today, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro banned multiparty elections and declared Cuba a socialist nation.
Yes
And that old fashioned dusty US Constitution, the right to bear arms and have freedom of speech, the "broken" filibuster block to ramrodding bills through the Senate and that hopelessly too small 9 member SCOTUS soon to make way for a 19 member Dem style club. So much to do.
How to steal an election:
Register everyone when they renew their license.
Mail an untraceable ballot to every registered voter.
Ensure all ballots are counted.
It will work every stinkin’ time. Without fail.
There is absolutely no need to involve one’s self with fancy election counting software interventions, which are far more easily detected as they are in a central, auditable location.
And this is where many conservative are missing the boat.
The fraud was in the streets at ballot distribution and collection.
SMH
blue forever act
one party rule as they chant “this is what democracy looks like”
Why is this even newsworthy?
What did the Nevadans expect?
In what possible fantasy do communists ever willingly relinquish power & control?
On the brighter side, maybe the elimination of “real” elections will keep millions of the drug-addled Nevadan drivers off the roads...
I’m not sure why you think it can’t be both.
All of the fraud you described was undoubtedly in place. It was not enough.
Biden still lost on November 3rd and it took emergency dumps at 4 in the morning to drag his sagging ass across the finish line.
Be sure of this. The Democrats are not going to cheat in only the same way, next time. We have to do better than a feeble attempt to keep up.
Permanent election fraud
They’re one seat short of a super in the senate and have it in the ASSembly. Thank you vegas.
The "thank you" must go to the Californians who moved to Vegas ... Reno is quickly devolving into the same condition ... the progressive disease of the appropriately self-identified "progressive" movement.
We are already there. No devolving. Slight miscalculation on our part moving here. Too late now for moving again. Age and money. Or lack of the latter. :-}
If Republicans controlled the state and did this, Democrats would be screaming and the press would be calling all Republicans racists
Okay. Republicans just need to cheat better than Rats. Steal state legislature seats and then make changes to election laws to make them right. In the mean time, people can stop visiting Nevada. Make all those Rats feel the wrath of Red America. It is called fighting. It is the way you win.
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