IF we allow it to happen.
Georgians preemptively surrendered in in 2020 when we allowed two left wing Democrats to win the Senate.
All we need is to see a repeat of this INDIFFERENCE in other states and we're screwed.
Posted on 06/25/2021 9:45:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This week, the Democrats’ bill to federalize our elections, S.1—also known as the “For the People Act”— failed to pass the U.S. Senate. Thanks to the filibuster, the bill fell short of its needed 60 vote threshold.
The filibuster stopped a partisan power grab that was designed to protect the Democrats’ majority. S.1 was a radical bill that would have made our elections less secure, and prone to widespread fraud. It even would have even banned popular voter ID laws.
We should all be thankful for Sen. Sinema and Sen. Manchin for resisting calls from the radical left to eliminate the filibuster. Without it, we would be having a de facto federal takeover of our elections.
The filibuster was designed to build consensus among the states. The states would have lost power under S.1, and in order to ensure the integrity of our electoral system there needs to be a broad consensus when it comes to pushing legislation forward. The filibuster worked the way it was supposed to.
Yet Americans should not let their guard down following the defeat of S.1. The Left is already pushing an even worse bill, The John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Do not let the bill’s name fool you. It is not a civil rights bill. It is an attempt to strip states of their powers to govern and run their own elections.
If you opposed S.1, then you should oppose The John Lewis Voting Rights Act. It is a massive federal takeover of our electoral system. It would put ideologically radical bureaucrats at the Department of Justice in charge of every single detail of our elections.
These bureaucrats would have to approve every change in our elections. From large changes such as mandating voter ID, to small changes like changing the time county election office hours.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act removes power from the people and gives it to the Washington swamp.
The Left will try to paint anyone who opposes The John Lewis Voting Rights Act as a racist or a vote suppressor. This sort of language demeans what African Americans went through to fully secure their right to vote in the 1960s. We cannot let these types of attacks stop us from fighting against a federal takeover of elections.
For over 200 years, states have run their own elections. The Left should stop trying to fundamentally transform our country and our Constitution. The U.S. Congress should stay out of election reform.
States like Arizona and Florida have passed election integrity legislation that will make their elections more free and secure. Other states should follow their lead. We do not need a federal government power grab.
Remember, even thinking about saying anything against something named in honor of a sainted civil rights hero icon
like John Lewis———is racist.
Yep. They provide a bill. Everyone says no. Bring another bill so that senators are stuck and they get what they want. Republicans never work the system.
I hope this new tyrannical power grab shares one thing in common with John Lewis . He’s dead and buried.
John Lewis was a civil rights hero when he was younger. But he died a leftist oligarch swamp-creature!
And the election-stealing bill named after him is specifically named after the old swamp-creature!!!!
If the left wants to legalize fraud....
We have no country left.
ALL the news media and BS propaganda speeches by the Dems push this kind of crapola as preserving downtrodden black people's chance to vote, which hangs by a thread in the racist society.
And allows Dominion, Soros and the Dems to manipulate election votes and counting of ballots.
Federal control of all local and state elections means like in Ferguson when Obama's AG sent hundreds of agents down to search for any shred of racist treatment of any black for ten years by police in Ferguson-----they will send them down to say "Trump style hoaxes of unproven election fraud will be stopped as vote totals are secured by agents."
Like Gov. Whitmer ordering the Michigan machines to be erased "So they are blank for the next time we have an election, as required by law." Yeah, in a few months or a year, not the next day! Too bad, evidence destroyed.
> Do not let the bill’s name fool you. <
You’ve got to give the Democrats credit for one thing. They are very good at picking nice, innocent names for horrible bills.
Maybe (probably?) someday the Democrats will decide to seize all the money hard-working Americans have saved. And they’ll call it the “Sharing is Caring” bill.
They already have for elected officials, elections should be light work for them.
We like the filibuster when it saves us, we hate the filibuster when it lets the Democrats kill something we like.
Remember, the rule of Leftist Supremacy is that nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the Left wants it settled, and only then is it settled--until the Left changes its mind, at which point the issue is never resettled until it is resettled the way the Left wants it resettled.
To understand the true intent of any bill proposed by Congress, insert the word “not” at the beginning of the name.
It was HR4 at one time. May still be.
AB Garland announced he is going to try to overturn the Georgia voter reform bill. Georgia Republicans’ mistake was not taking a titling cue from congressional Dems, and call their voter reform act to assure eligibility of a person voting through a form of ID, the state For The People Act. Democrat congressional Dems have a habit of cutesy populist messaging titles for their voters, who have a tendency to judge the legislative book by the sloganeering cover. Hence, HR1 For the People Act to mask the true intent of their bill as a For the Cheaters Act, which expands mail in balloting nationwide while doing away doing away with ID requirements and ushers in ballot harvesting, to enable their state political operatives to steal elections from the people.
Democrats cheat.
Here’s a very simple question (and yes I am serious):
During the founding of this country, when England inflicted laws on us with no say in the matter, the slogan of the day became,
“no taxation without representation”.
M question is, when did we turn the world upside down and the thought become:
“Representation without taxation”?
Why isn’t voting tied to paying taxes? I don’t really care what river you swam across to get here, pay your taxes every year and you’re welcome to vote. In fact we can make the ballot and the 1040 all part of the same form.
But if you don’t pay any taxes, then you are getting a free ride - and that’s enough.
RE: To understand the true intent of any bill proposed by Congress, insert the word “not” at the beginning of the name.
“NOT the John Lewis Voting Rights Act” sounds awkward.
I prefer the “Fat Dead Communist Voting Rights Act”.
The ‘Lets make your home town as bad as Baltimore act”
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