Failure of ‘For the People Act’ shows why Senate filibuster’s vital
By Post Editorial Board
June 27, 2021 | 8:55pm | Updated
Three cheers for the Senate filibuster rule, which requires 60 votes to move a bill forward. Were it not for that, Democrats might’ve succeeded in ramming through a sweeping bid to federalize nearly all national election rules — mostly to benefit themselves.
Only 50 senators, none Republican, voted last week to advance the misnamed, 900-page “For the People Act” — 10 votes short of the requirement. The House had already passed it, again with not one Republican vote.
The bill would’ve restricted voter-ID requirements, blocked states from purging ineligible voters, ushered in public campaign-financing and even overruled state redistricting rules. Democrats pushed it in part to block Republican state legislatures, acting in accordance with their constitutional mandate, from tightening laws to curb voter fraud via stepped-up voter-ID measures.
Yet as a Monmouth University poll last week showed, 80 percent of Americans support photo IDs to vote, including 62 percent of Democrats and fully 84 percent of non-white voters.
The poll, along with the filibuster, have Dems suddenly supporting voter ID: “No one has ever objected to having to prove who you are to vote,” says the party’s voting-rights champ Stacey Abrams — after adamantly objecting to IDs in the past.
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