Dems are showing off their majority with this bill. House Dems have just passed through a bill that is going to drastically change the voting process in their favor. GOP Minority Leader McCarthy claimed the bill is “a massive federal government takeover” that “undermines the integrity of our elections.”
“According to Democrats, the bill would “improve access to the ballot box,” by creating an automatic voter registration across the country, and by ensuring that individuals who have completed felony sentences have their full voting rights restored. The bill will also expand early voting and enhance absentee voting by simplifying voting by mail.
The bill also commits Congress to deliver “full congressional voting rights and self-government for the residents of the District of Columbia, which only statehood can provide,” prohibits voter roll purges and “ends partisan gerrymandering to prevent politicians from picking their voters.”
Republicans have argued such a decision to advocate for D.C. statehood is a political move to ensure two permanently Democratic U.S. Senate seats in what is an approximately nine-to-one Democrat-to-Republican jurisdiction.
The legislation also “ensures that American elections are decided by American voters,” by enhancing federal support for voting system security, specifically with regard to paper ballots, and also by increasing oversight of election system vendors and by requiring the “development of a national strategy to protect U.S. democratic institutions.”
The bill also seeks to “end the dominance of big money in our policies,” and aims to shine “a light on dark money in politics” by upgrading online political ad disclosure and requiring all organizations involved in political activity to disclose their large donors.
The bill also “breaks the so-called ‘nesting-doll’ sham that allows big-money contributors and special interests to hide the true funding source of their political spending,” and “strengthens the political power of hardworking Americans by creating a multiple matching system for small donations.”
The bill also reaffirms Congress’ authority to regulate money in politics, pushing back on the Supreme Court’s Citizen United decision.
The bill also, in a swipe at former President Trump, requires presidents to disclose their tax returns— something Trump managed to avoid while in office.
Republican opposition was fierce during the last session. At the time, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., labeled it the “Democrat Politician Protection Act” and said in an op-ed that Democrats were seeking to “change the rules of American politics to benefit one party.”
We all saw what happens when Dems run elections. Just look at the Dem Primary in 2016, they rigged the whole election against Bernie Sanders, so Hillary could run. This looks like more of the same. They want to open up more voting opportunities that will likely lead to more elections like this past presidential election, where there were numerous voting anomalies that ensure a Dem win.
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