Posted on 03/01/2021 4:35:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - As Congress begins debate this week on sweeping voting and ethics legislation, Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing: If signed into law, it would usher in the biggest overhaul of U.S. elections law in at least a generation.
House Resolution 1, Democrats’ 791-page bill, would touch virtually every aspect of the electoral process.
Republicans see those very measures as threats that would both limit the power of states to conduct elections and ultimately benefit Democrats, notably with higher turnout among minority voters.
“This goes above partisan interests. The vote is at the heart of our democratic system of government,” said Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonpartisan good government organization Democracy 21. “That’s the battleground. And everyone knows it.”
Barriers to voting are as old as the country, but in more recent history they have come in the form of voter ID laws and other restrictions that are up for debate in statehouses across the country.
Rep. John Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat who sponsored the bill, said that outside of Congress “these aren’t controversial reforms.” Much of it, he noted, was derived from recommendations of a bipartisan commission.
Yet to many Republicans, it amounts to an unwarranted federal intrusion into a process that states should control.
Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., excoriated the measure during a House hearing last week as “800 pages of election mandates and free speech regulations” that poses a “threat to democracy” and would “weaken voter confidence” in elections.
Citing Congress’ constitutional authority over federal elections, Democrats say national rules are needed to make voting more uniform, accessible and fair. The bill would mandate early voting, same-day registration and other long-sought changes that Republicans reject.
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Cementing Neoliberalism once and for all.
I don’t think very much could erode my “voter confidence” and further.
The folks who benefit from all these abuses are the same ones who would have to fix it.
Fat chance.
Codifying election fraud.
Legalizing ballot stuffing and harvesting... worked wonders in swing states... why not push to make leg in all states...
Pretty much doesn’t matter... when Biden legalizes 30+ million illegal aliens the nation will be done...
In Article I Section 4, the Framers left the “times, places, manner” of federal elections to the states . . . as long as they didn’t screw them up. Then, Congress had the duty to step in.
While it appears to be an odd arrangement, in 1787 there wasn’t any assurance the states would even hold elections to the House of Reps.
Section 4 represents a lesson learned under the hapless Articles of Confederation when states often didn’t bother to send delegates to Congress.
Unfortunately, without a Senate of the States to protect their employers, HR1 should sail through.
We are on the cusp of formal, legal, one-party rule.
And I’m constantly warned about the danger posed by a Convention of States.
Ah, wasn't it so nice for AP to go easier on DJT. /s
blatantly unconstitutional..
the supreme court will rubber stamp it anyway
Aaaand, there’s the race card.
We had all 3 branches when Trump was elected. We could have had voter ID in place but the cowards decided to punt.
.........the QUESTION is can our RINO Senate and our RINO House members (164) even slow this disaster down?
Ryan and McConnell screwed America badly.
Limit the power of states
This country was not founded on that logic it’s just another step to 1984 government rules wonder how safe all the democrat voters feel now?.
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