By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-25 01:20:00 | Updated at 2024-10-25 03:27:56
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The Dark Money Federal Takeover of Elections
RealClear Politics ^ | 24 Oct, 2024 | Tyler O'Neil
Posted on 10/24/2024 6:14:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Americans today don’t just disagree on whom to vote for – we also disagree on the best way to ensure that we have free and fair elections. The left has advocated for mail-in voting, election drop-boxes, and against requiring ID to vote, in the name of allowing as many Americans as possible to vote. The right advocates for voter ID, a tighter chain of custody for ballots, and measures to ensure that only citizens can vote.
Joe Biden campaigned as a uniter, but he has demonized election integrity measures as “Jim Crow 2.0” and enacted the left’s preferred election “reforms.” In fact, his administration has worked with a leftist group to transform federal agencies into voter registration offices, a move likely to help the party that offers more federal handouts.
When Biden began his term in 2021 with razor-thin Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, he urged the passage of H.R. 1, the “For the People Act.” That bill would have mandated that federal agencies remind citizens about voter registration in the course of regular duties, undermined state voter ID laws, prevented states from updating their voter registration rolls (to purge dead voters), and set up a public funding program for candidates running for Congress.
The bill never got a vote in the 50-50 Senate, so Biden signed an executive order implementing part of these agenda items in lieu of legislation. His March 7, 2021, order directed each federal agency to focus on providing access to voter registration and vote-by-mail applications, developing a plan to “promote voter registration and voter participation … in the course of activities or services that directly engage with the public.”
This executive order almost entirely matched a policy recommendation from the left-leaning activist group Demos. After Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Demos
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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1 posted on 10/24/2024 6:14:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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Leftist pressure at every point in the process.
2 posted on 10/24/2024 6:15:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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