Posted on 11/13/2020 4:37:32 AM PST by 11th_VA
House Republicans warned against a developing plan by Democrats that would allow lawmakers to vote remotely.
“Speaker Pelosi is once again attempting to consolidate power in the House of Representatives while rewarding members of her party for their compliance,” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said in a joint statement with Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma and Rodney Davis of Illinois.
Democrats announced this week that “operable and secure technology exists to conduct remote voting in the House of Representatives.”
The letter from House Administration Committee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren to Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens the door to electronic voting from afar, which is prohibited.
Democrats voted in May to permit voting by proxy, ending a rule dating back to the beginning of Congress that lawmakers must vote in person.
Proxy voting requires a lawmaker on the House floor to cast a vote for an absent member who designates the lawmaker to act on his or her behalf.
Remote voting would go much further in making it possible for lawmakers to remain away from the Capitol by allowing them to vote for themselves from afar, using phones and computers.
McCarthy said the Democrats are “reportedly considering additional rules” that would eliminate the GOP’s one chance to amend a bill at the end of debate.
Democrats have not made any announcements about potential rules changes...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
That’s where the GOP would really have power...
Time to move to Georgia. Now.
The same people who don’t have ID have self phonies???
What’s next? Vote by thought? ~sarc off
Vote by the highest bidder. Although we already sorta have that.
Well, they have to be able to vote remotely. If they show up in person, the coronavirus will immediately kill them and their entire families, then it will go back in time and re-kill their ancestors! It’s already killed everyone several times over.
Think this through its logical conclusion, and while you’re at it be very careful what you wish for.
proxy voting could lead to a newly dead congresscritter voting from the morgue.
Or From Fort Marcy Park.
It’s clear that a legit vote would give the GOP a House majority—and they should be fighting for that.
What are you suggesting?
Would that likely be “vote by obamaphone”?
lol
If grocery store clerks can keep working through Covid, so can our Congress.
Not only are these people stupid, but they are dumb too. These are out best? Time to break out the telephone book.
Vote by text in the House will become a fact and such a success that the dems will push for all national federal elections to be done via text. It would be more secure than humans counting outmoded paper ballots. Nothing could go wrong. Since it would be electronically secure, it would require no monitoring. /s/
Unfortunately, the DC circuit seems to have shot down the law suit saying it was political, not constitutional
Obviously the ammo box will trump the ballot box.
Universal Voter I.D., tied into SS death index.
Elizabeth Warren demands vote by smoke signal.
That’s just the beginning, they carry coronavirus!!!!
FYI, a file, going under the name “coronavirus” is being sent to some Internet users who subscribe to on-line services (Compuserve, Prodigy and America On Line) (and democrats in congress). If you should receive this file, do not download it! Delete it immediately. I understand that there is a virus included in that file, which if downloaded to your personal computer, will ruin all of your files.
Coronavirus will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but
it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator’s coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD’s you try to play.
It will go back in time and date your mother in high school. It can give your cat fleas. It caused the great Chicago fire AND the New York blackout. It can even cause all your kids to be born NEKKID!!!!
And Nancy Pelosi is a carrier...
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