Democrats' partisan power grab fails — for now
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On Tuesday, the Democrats' bill to federalize elections failed. Our constitutional republic was the big winner.
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S. 1 fell short of the 60-vote threshold required. Thank goodness for the filibuster. The proposal was a revolutionary rearrangement of the American political system. It was designed to help the institutional Left win elections. It would have banned voter ID, mandated same-day registration, and vastly increased the problem of chronic inaccuracy in state voter rolls.
Yesterday's vote was a huge step in defeating S. 1. However, we should not celebrate too soon.
The Left remains obsessed with killing the filibuster. Democrats hate the original constitutional design through which a broad consensus of states must agree before a proposal can pass the Senate. That design preserves liberty, and its dislike of liberty defines the modern Left.
Democrats have another federal takeover bill on deck, H.R. 4, or the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. This bill is even worse than S. 1.
It would put partisan bureaucrats at the Department of Justice in control of every single aspect of elections. If a polling place moved from the school gym to the school cafeteria, Justice Department bureaucrats would have to approve it.
When I was at the Justice Department, I saw this abuse of power firsthand. In one instance, the DOJ blocked an annexation of one family into the town of North, South Carolina. Why? Because they were white and would add two white voters. Yes, even annexations are covered.
In another case, the DOJ blocked Kinston, North Carolina, from moving from partisan to nonpartisan elections for Town Council. That was also blocked. Why? Because, the DOJ said plainly, if the word "Democrat" was not on the ballot, black voters would not know for whom to vote.
You can't make this stuff up.
Power is best left close to the people, not with the swamp. People do not want radical leftists micromanaging elections.
Any form of a federal election takeover is unacceptable. It undoes our original constitutional agreement that states would run their own elections. Without this arrangement, we very may well not have had a union at all.
Rust never sleeps, and the Left has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into dismantling our original constitutional architecture governing elections. We should rejoice that we have stopped a federal takeover of elections for now, but the fight to stop the federal takeover of elections is far from over.
J. Christian Adams is the president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a former Justice Department attorney, and current commissioner on the United States Commission for Civil Rights.
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How desperate will Democrats become as the midterms draw closer and closer?
We see how desperate the [deleted] are now! And deplorable! And clinging to their ignorance!
Hmmmm,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it is not the Republicans trying desperately to change election laws at the federal level.
It isn't the Republicans who have been lying about voter ID for decades.
No it is republicans desperately changing election laws on the state level to favor themselves. It is the federal government's job to assure that every citizen is able to exercise their right to vote without undue obstacles favoring 1 party or another.
Republicans have been lying about voter ID for decades.
Thanks for the truth Ozz.
Point out ONE law--just ONE--that favors Republicans as you now claim. Quote the law, and when you fail, that will be the end of this shit.
I will consider silence as capitulation.
Thanks!
Heck, I will extend that invitation to your fan club if they would like to post proof for you.
Just got the feeling that it won't be happening.
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'cause he didn't answer you in 10 minutes ? lol, smells like desperation.
See post 2.1.5 and have at it if YOU can provide any evidence for his claims.
Anyone who fails to grasp the necessity of proving voter bona fides beyond a reasonable doubt, in the making of an accurate and fair election system, is either trying to cheat or just plain stupid.
No other option for this one ..... most folks generally grasp this essential concept, many apparently don't. Which makes those who don't either cheaters or just plain stupid.
Notice how not a soul can provide evidence when asked, but seem to like unsupported comments?
When have you ever provided evidence when asked?
Extreme desperation!
Read for yourself.
In 43 states across the country, Republican lawmakers have proposed at least 250 laws that would limit mail, early in-person and Election Day voting with such constraints as stricter ID requirements, limited hours or narrower eligibility to vote absentee, according to data compiled as of Feb. 19 by the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. Even more proposals have been introduced since then.
The problem with your link to WaPo is that the primary word used throughout is "could". There is absolutely no proof of anything in the article has or will come true.
The article was written before Georgia passed its election bill, and people like Warnock and Abrams were saying that the provision of voter ID requirement was Jim Crowe and racist. Now, because polls have shown that blacks, by a wide margin, have zero problem with voter ID, these two idiots, among others, are saying they have no problem with voter ID, and that they never said it was a problem (they lied). I guess that blows out the democrat talking point that blacks are unable to independently get their own ID, essentially saying that white liberals are there for them to get their IDs for them, because they believe they are so helpless.
BTW, most of these states have, or are proposing more liberal voting provisions that Delaware, you know, the state for "his confused", Joe Biden is from.
Why have the woke liberal crowd not protested the Delaware State House to have them change their Jim Crowe laws?
Why is it you want these voter laws and voter ID? Because people COULD fraudulently vote. But they haven't yet.
So before you start using the word COULD against the Post article, you need to examine the claimed reason for the laws republican states are enacting in the 1st place.
Most of the laws in many states that were used for the 2020 election were enacted because of COVID. Whether there was fraud is not part of the reasoning. Most of these states are going back to pre COVID times.
Why are you so upset about having more secure elections?
Why are you upset that most red states have more liberal election laws than many blue states?
Why did you not address my question concerning Delaware election laws?
I'd appreciate if you answer the original questions and not deflect.
Thanks....
I see you haven't read any of the new laws.
Elections were already secure. If you feel otherwise please provide a few thousand specific examples of voter fraud.
LOL!!! Good one.
Why do you never answer any question directly? And I don't give a shit about Delaware.
Then I would suggest that for a change, you start practicing what you preach.
Plenty of times, and if you ever read any links, you would have already known that and known not to ask such a silly little question.
Oh, man, dude, what freaking part of this question is eluding you?
"Point out ONE law--just ONE--that favors Republicans as you now claim."
Now, since you found something you think is useful, just go ahead and show where it favors Republicans as was claimed.
Just highlight it in your reply.
This should be interesting, to say the least, and I am in the mood for a little fiction!
SOSDD for this place that's for sure.
Most blue states put in no excuse absentee ballot or just outright mailing ballots to mail boxes whether the person that was registered at that address still lives there or not.
Open for mass fraud.
"Elections were already secure. If you feel otherwise please provide a few thousand specific examples of voter fraud."
Secure is only objective. Why not make them more secure? Scared of losing outright?
"LOL!!! Good one."
Glad you like it, but, alas, still can't answer the question...only deflection.
"Why do you never answer any question directly? And I don't give a shit about Delaware"
I have answered everything you have asked, and did so to the point where you can't deal with the truth, so you deflect. As far as Delaware, it was a question asked of you, but because it is the home of "Whispering" Joe, you don't care...oh, and because....it's a blue state....so you don't care.
Why should wanting to vote by mail need an excuse?
They are mailed to the address the registered voter has on file. I would love to see a ballot sent to every registered voter in America every election cycle. We should be making it as easy as possible for registered voters to cast their ballots.
Even though some States have had widespread absentee ballot voting for up to 30 years we haven't seen any widespread voter fraud. Prove "mass fraud" is actually happening and then you might have a point. Perhaps some Republicans assume there will be widespread fraud because they have so little morals that they know they would be lying and cheating in every election if, God forbid, voting were made any easier.
If you can't prove widespread vote fraud then they are secure.
Because the suggested added security was specifically intended to create hurdles for poor and minority voters, not to stop any sort of vote fraud.
Democrats won "outright". There was no voter fraud proven because it didn't happen. The ones "scared of losing outright" are the Republicans who know the more eligible voters who vote, the less likely they are to win an election. They have a specific target base of voters they do well with which is primarily white middle income conservative Christians, they have to do everything they can each election cycle to stop anyone else from voting so they have a slim chance at winning the electoral college vote because they know there's simply no way they could get the actual majority of Americans nationwide to vote for their dangerous and callous conservative Christian theocrat agenda.
Never said they didn't. I said they are new laws put in place, many by other than legal means (only legislative branch of many states have the authority to change state election laws, not governor's, not anyone else.)
"We should be making it as easy as possible for registered voters to cast their ballots."
Easy is one thing. How do you know who actually filled out a ballot that was left at an address where the registered voter no longer lives? You don't
"Even though some States have had widespread absentee ballot voting for up to 30 years we haven't seen any widespread voter fraud"
Mostly to those that requested them. To request them, voters should include a copy of their ID to receive a ballot, otherwise, no go.
"As of now, I believe Biden won, however, if the audits in Maricopa county and Atlanta show there was some form of widespread fraud, I, and so should you, have major concerns.
BTW, why are democrats fighting so hard to stop these audits if the vote was on the up and up?
"Because the suggested added security was specifically intended to create hurdles for poor and minority voters, not to stop any sort of vote fraud."
Prove it...Show exactly what law and where in the law there are hurdles for minorities and poor. This question has been asked many times on here, and zero people have been able, or unwilling, to answer.
" conservative Christians,"
Now we see where the real hatred is directed at, just by blind accusations, with zero proof.
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One warning--STAY on TOPIC.
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The topic is trashing Democrats and you want them to stay on topic? Bizarre!
Bad, bad Libtard Demoncrats ... good enough?
If Democrats are trashed by the truth, that sounds like a personal problem they should work on.
Good enough for those lacking in imagination so much that "Libtard Demoncrats" is considered pithy.
Power is best left close to the people, not with the swamp. People do not want radical leftists micromanaging elections.
That sentiment is growing by leaps and bounds. Election cheating by the left needs to be stopped
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As do the right's claims of cheating by the left.
Election laws are to be determined in each state by the legislative bodies of each state.