15 Things Conservatives Say Democrats’ Election Bill Would Do

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15 Things Conservatives Say Democrats’ Election Bill Would Do

Rachel del Guidice   March 04, 2019 / 38 Comments

“It is full of bad and unwise provisions that will restrict free speech and grassroots political activity,” a Heritage Foundation legal fellow says of the bill championed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo: Win McNamee/ Staff/Getty Images)

House Democrats tentatively have set a vote this week on election legislation that conservatives say would inhibit states’ powers to set qualifications for voters, remove safeguards on voter registration rolls, and undermine the integrity of elections.

“HR 1 is one of the worst bills introduced in Congress in recent memory,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said, referring to the number of the House’s first bill of the new session.

“Many parts of it are unconstitutional and it is full of bad and unwise provisions that will restrict free speech and grassroots political activity, as well as hamper the ability of state government to ensure the security and integrity of the election process,” von Spakovsky told The Daily Signal in an email.


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1. Seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process
2. Make it easier to commit voter fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration
3. Hurt voter turnout through early voting
4. Degrade the accuracy of registration lists by automatically registering individuals from state databases
5. Constitute a recipe for massive voter registration fraud by hackers and cybercriminals
6. Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precinct, overriding the precinct system
7. Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters
8. Cripple the effectiveness of state voter ID laws by allowing individuals to vote without photo identification
9. Violate the First Amendment and perhaps cover a vast range of legal activity
10. Expand government regulation and censorship of election campaigns and political activity and speech
11. Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five
12. Prohibit state election officials from participating in federal elections
13. Require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison
14. Transfer the power to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to “independent” commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters
15. Violate separation of powers and directly interfere with the president’s constitutional duties