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The Senate Rules Committee gridlocked on nearly 40 proposed amendments to the For the People Act during a hearing Tuesday. Democrats were unable to strike a compromise with Republicans, dooming the bill to near-certain defeat on the Senate floor.
Democrats have prioritized the bill’s passage. It would make a wide range of changes to federal elections, including implementing a public financing system for all federal candidates, expanding vote-by-mail programs and instituting automatic voter registration.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a longtime proponent of “dark money” and corporate spending, leads Republican opposition to the bill. During the hearing, he proposed an amendment to neutralize a provision requiring 501(c)(4) political nonprofits to disclose the identities of donors giving more than $10,000. The amendment failed by vote of 9-9.
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The oddest defense of S.1/H.R. 1 I’ve seen lately is that the courts would ultimately uphold
parts of it as constitutional. As several backers told the New York Times in a roundup article last week on expected legal challenges, “not all of the anticipated challenges to [the omnibus election bill] would succeed.” Many parts would be left standing.
I’ve got a new piece at National Review pointing out that a standard of “partly constitutional, partly not” shouldn’t be seen as good enough. “Members of Congress take an oath that requires them to ‘support and defend’ the Constitution.” That means satisfying themselves that there’s a sound constitutional basis for the entirety of a bill they approve, not just some of its parts. That doesn’t always mean they need to back off every provision they foresee will face an uphill fight in court. After thinking things through, they might decide on reflectio
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BREAKING: ‘Significant Discrepancies’ Discovered In Arizona Audit, Ballots Off Up to 17.5%, ‘Likely Joe Biden Did Not Win’
May 13th 2021, 2:29 pm They re hiding the disaster in which they handled this election, and likely, the fact that Joe Biden did not win in Arizona.
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The ongoing audit of ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona has uncovered “significant discrepancies” in the number of ballots versus the supposed number of ballots that were supposed to exist. Political strategist Boris Epshteyn adds that the discrepancies may be as high as 17.5%, and it is “likely Joe Biden did not win Arizona”.
The Federal Elections Commission fined the Wyoming Republican Party $52,000 for a campaign finance violation stemming from former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to campaign finance records and interviews with party officials.
Under incredibly difficult situations for everybody involved in 2020, West Virginia ran a successful election. We had thousands more people voting than in 2016. In fact, the total number of ballots cast in 2020 was more than any election in West Virginia’s history except for the 1960 election.
Our state wasn’t alone, either. More than 158 million ballots were cast in 2020, a 7% increase from 2016. Last November, every single state also saw higher turnout rates compared to the previous presidential election.
So, if more people are in fact voting, what is the Democrats’ proposed legislation really about?
This is where proponents of the federalized election power grab lose credibility. It is really about a way to implement absurd and downright un-American provisions in the bill that prioritize power over the will of the people. Here are just a few.