House Democrats pass H.R. 1 election overhaul bill with public financing, automatic voter registrati

[Right_in_Virginia]

House Democrats pass H.R. 1 election overhaul bill with public financing, automatic voter registration
MSN, Mar 3, 2021, Washington Examiner

The House passed Democrats' massive election reform bill, the "For the People Act" on Wednesday in wake of lingering bitterness over the 2020 election and Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Democrats previously passed a version of H.R. 1 — the bill number saved to signify a top priority of the majority party — in the last Congress in 2019, but it never got a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. This time, every single House Democrat has signed on to the bill, and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is poised to bring the legislation up in the Senate, though he only has a slim, non-filibuster-proof 50-50 majority.

Measures in the massive bill, passed 220-210 Wednesday, include:

A new program providing for public financing of federal elections, matching small-dollar donations 6 to 1.

Creating nationwide automatic voter registration.

Reducing the number of members on the Federal Election Commission from 6 to 5. Democrats say will allow the commission to do its job rather than be deadlocked, but Republicans say that would make the FEC a "partisan weapon."

Require certain politically active groups, including 401(c)3 "dark money" nonprofit organizations, to disclose donors who give $10,000 or more, and expand the definition of election-related communication and reduce the influence of independent expenditure-only "super PACs," among other measures.

Require states to allow any eligible voter to vote by mail in federal elections.

Require states to allow any eligible voter to use ballot drop-boxes.

Allows felons who have completed their incarceration to vote.

Democrats celebrated impending passage of the bill with a press conference on the Capitol steps on Wednesday, during which Democrats held up small American flags.


More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-pass-h-r-1-election-overhaul-bill-with-public-financing-automatic-voter-registration/ar-BB1edIvu

[Right_in_Virginia]

President Trump's plan, outlined in his speech at CPAC:

One election day (not weeks before and weeks after),

Vote by mail for the proven sick, out of the country or in the military, only, (Absentee voting)

Eliminate mail-in voting for other than those meeting the definition of absentee,

Universal signature matching for all absentee votes,

Mandatory voter ID,

Mandatory verification of citizenship for every voter,

Mandatory chain of custody for every ballot,

Election rules are set by the state legislatures, only, as required by the Constitution of the United States,

End the censorship of political speech; end big tech monopoly and Section 230.

[Right_in_Virginia]

This is a good place to review this braggadocious confession in FULL ....

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
Time, Feb 4, 2020

[...]

A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.

Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump’s conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result.

More: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

[Right_in_Virginia]

Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays

We just had an election that was not seen as credible by much of the public, followed by an assault on the capitol for the same reason, and Congress responds by making the election process LESS credible for next time.

I'd add troops to protect the capitol.

Steve Scalise
@SteveScalise   Â· 10h

Every single American should be OUTRAGED by this:

Democrats just voted to ban voter ID nationwide and force every state to permanently expand mail-in voting.

8:45 AM · Mar 4, 2021·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1367471154504425477

[skeeter]

This bill is a de facto admission by the Rats that November's election was as crooked as a dog's hind leg.

Like proposing to legalize the ability to make withdrawals from someone else's account after having robbed the bank.

[andy58-in-nh]

If this abomination passes in the Senate and is signed into law, I would fully expect numerous states to file suit in Federal Court, immediately.

[mystery-ak]

excerpts:

The House passed a sweeping election reform and voting rights bill mostly along party lines on Wednesday in a 220-210 vote. 

A version of the bill passed last year, 234-193, without any GOP support and was not taken up in the GOP-led Senate.

The bill faces an uphill path in the upper chamber, which is now controlled by Democrats. While Democrats are expected to bring the legislation to the floor, it is highly unlikely to garner the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/541545-house-passes-voting-rights-and-elections-reform-bill

[mystery-ak]

Biden vows to work with Congress to 'refine' voting rights bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/541574-biden-vows-to-work-with-congress-to-refine-voting-rights-bill

[skeeter]

Biden vows to work with Congress to 'refine' voting rights bill
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/541574-biden-vows-to-work-with-congress-to-refine-voting-rights-bill

The only way to 'refine' it is to force feed it to the Rats a page at a time.

SanFranNan gets to eat the binder.

[Right_in_Virginia]

The Rats are doing whatever they want knowing we cannot protest w/o fear of losing our jobs and being tossed in jail.   

[bilo]

If this abomination passes in the Senate and is signed into law, I would fully expect numerous states to file suit in Federal Court, immediately.

The SCOTUS does not have a good history of protecting American citizens from an all powerful fed govt.

[bilo]

The Rats are doing whatever they want knowing we cannot protest w/o fear of losing our jobs and being tossed in jail.   

As we become more divided and subjugated to the will of the fascists the need to separate the USA into different countries grows.

The fed govt is too big, too powerful, controls too much of our lives and no longer exists to protect us  from foreign enemies. What good is it?