Posted on 06/16/2024 1:50:22 PM PDT by T Ruth
CHARLESTON – West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and chief election officers in eight other states have joined to bring legal action to try to stop an executive order issued by President Joe Biden they say would federalize state elections.
Warner – along with the secretaries of state of Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Wyoming – filed an amicus brief May 28 asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Executive Order 14019 is unconstitutional and violates the authority granted to the states to regulate elections by the United States Constitution.
Specifically, the secretaries of state seek to protect the voter registration process currently administered by the states.
Biden issued the order March 7, 2021, directing federal agencies to develop ways and means to expand and promote voter registration and to increase participation in vote-by-mail ballot applications. The secretaries of states say the order inappropriately allows federal agencies to use non-appropriated federal funds to fulfill those directives.
"The President's use of executive action to convert federal agencies into get-out-the-vote operations is prohibited by the United States Constitution," Warner said. "The Elections Clause of the Constitution specifically declares that the manner of running elections is left to the states, not the federal government. Registering eligible people to vote is an essential component and manner of running fair and secure elections."
Warner and other state election officials call the order a prime example of partisan federal overreach and "another attempt by the Biden Administration to take control of state elections."
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"President Biden's executive order is a flagrant example of federal overreach," Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said. "The Constitution's Elections Clause is clear: election administration is reserved for the states. ..."
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Federalization = All the eggs in one basket where it’s easy to fool around with them. No oversight from the counties and states.
Good way to steal an election...
Centralizing election means all they have to do is press single button and... Voilà! The Democrats win!
While I don’t want ANY federal oversight over elections, I would like to see a standardized method of voting that emphasizes ID, little to no mail it voting (except for military serving overseas), and paper ballots. No more electronic voting.
Ready to fire on Fort Sumter again, if needed.
I would like to see a Federal Requirement of Voter Re-registration after every Federal election where someone needs to show up in person and present ID that validates they are legal to vote in the state and are citizens.
The constitution enumerates the States and Congress to define the time and manner of voting. There is no enumeration of the executive branch to do anything regarding voting other than enforce the laws passed by Congress.
A hugely unconstitutional democrat power-grab through the slippery and nebulous authority of the ‘executive order’.
Tick...Tock...
Yet, even under state control...we don’t have fair and secure elections.
Gee, if the SCOTUS strikes that down, then FJB can brag about how the left will do it anyway . . .
When did Biden sign Executive Order 14019?
Generally, it seems the GOP is slow walking any election fraud issues by the DEMs.
My understanding is that the Biden administration hid the ball and would not make the order public. Some State AG finally prevailed in a FOIA request. This took time.
I could be wrong.
I agree totally. In person ID required, on paper and mail in voting for overseas military personnel only. No machines and non-citizens excluded.
Separation of Powers, States Rights, and probably a bunch more I haven’t thought of.
I’d settle for after every Presidential cycle.
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