Posted on 09/22/2022 7:39:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
The House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to overhaul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and re-write election rules to benefit Democrats in presidential contests.
The bill, proposed by GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California who is under Cheney on the Jan. 6 Committee, reforms the 135-year-old law to narrow the grounds for objections to presidential electors and open the door to late-day voting.
Cheney’s “Presidential Election Reform Act” became the Democrats’ answer to their failed effort to override state election laws in H.R. 1, which Senate Republicans blocked last summer. The legislation carries some of the same provisions of the doomed election bill at the top of Democrats’ congressional agenda. Just nine Republicans supported the bill, all but one of whom supported President Donald Trump’s second impeachment and are either retiring or have lost their primaries.
New York Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who co-chairs the Election Integrity Caucus, condemned the bill as “the latest attempt from House Democrats to stack the democratic process in their favor” and complained that the proposal did not go through the proper legislative process. The text was only released days before the Wednesday vote and received no bipartisan hearing or markup in committee.
“It is nothing more than a partisan messaging bill intended to score cheap political points weeks before an election,” Tenney said in a press release outlining the legislation’s flaws.
“The bill broadly defines a ‘catastrophic event,’ which could be used to extend balloting for up to five days after the polls close in a presidential election,” Tenney said. “It also tramples on the core principle of state sovereignty and directly contradicts the United States Constitution. The legislation also creates broad private rights of action in a backdoor to empower Democrat election lawyers and partisan operatives.”
The congresswoman from central New York called on her colleagues to outlaw the private takeover of elections through “Zuckerbucks” and boost security at the ballot box.
Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis similarly condemned the bill’s expedited passage through the lower chamber on the House floor and highlighted the hypocrisy over electoral objections.
“Democrats have objected to every single Republican presidential win in the 21st century,” Davis said.
In 2017, Democrats objected to more states certifying President Donald Trump’s win than Republicans did four years later for Joe Biden.
“I believe what the House Democrats and the Jan. 6 Committee are doing is irresponsible and wrong,” Davis said. “They have allowed their dislike for one man, President Trump, to cloud their judgment and guide their actions — no matter the consequences to this institution or the Constitution that they claim to want to uphold.”
According to Axios, similar legislation in the upper chamber has already drawn support from the 10 Republicans needed in the split Senate to circumvent a filibuster.
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Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
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First question: what in that bill is not authorized by the U.S. Constitution?
Whatever is in this bill that is not authorized by the Constitution makes this bill/future law null and void.
I’m glad Tenney beat that greaseball last election.
who are the traitor 10?
besides the usual suspects of
collins
murky
romney
I was watching the floor debate on this, and when the Democrat manager yielded time to Liz, that was the ultimate proof, if there is any necessity for it, of where she belongs, which is not on our side of the aisle.
The only good thing about it was that we know it is the last gasp of a traitor before running into the darkness. Other traitors in our history, from Benedict Arnold to Fritz Kuhn and beyond, were never accepted by the enemy they attempted to support; the same will happen to Liz when she tries to get the approval of the Left upon her departure from Congress.
This unconstitutional legislation confirms that President Trump’s challenge to the bogus 2016 vote count was perfectly legal.
Just wait until after November and the repubs will overturn all that stuff. Right? Hello? Bueller?
To all citizens who think the Demoncrats aren’t going to cheat the election process to ultimately make this Republic a one party socialist state ... WAKE UP!
McConnell will be paid to support this. And, he will.
The objective of Democrats is Socialism.
The objective of Socialism is Communism.
The objective of Communism is Total Control.............Totalitarianism.............
Those three are Senators. This is a house bill.
The state legislatures failed to send the corrected electors to DC. As the arbitor, the VP had nothing to arbitrate.
I have been twisted into a nonessential SLAVE to an evil, maniacal elite Uniparty. I will not comply. Resistance is not futile.
Interestingly, the bill supposedly updates and amends the Electoral Count Act of 1887 -- which itself contains some blatantly unconstitutional measures.
There seems to be a lot of young people that think Socialism is great because you don’t have to work too hard as the government will supply all your needs. What they don’t realize is that once you are of no use to the government your next ride will be in a box car.
You can’t trust a traitor, even when they come over to your side.
They’ll do the same to you if the situation changes and it turns out to benefit them.
Remember when conservatives liked Bush and Cheney even more? I thought they were okay until the gulf war raged on and Bush became open borders and to hell with what middle class Americans want I started to really dislike them, and then it comes out that Mrs. Bush was pro-abortion and seemed much more liberal after he left office I realized they were nothing but charlatans all of them. And now we know the Clinton-Bush-Obama axis of covert evil. My daughter was a young teen at the time and a couple of her friends would talk about and recommend little documentaries of how the WTC bombings were actually an inside job or at least sanctioned, in those days my mind wouldnt entertain it. These are no longer those days.
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