Democrats intend to save “democracy” by putting themselves in charge of elections.
As absurd as that sounds, it really is a part of the inappropriately named “For the People Act of 2019,” or H.R. 1, moving through the House of Representatives.
The Heritage Foundation created a list of the law’s provisions, which you can read here. The Conservative Action Project also provided this quick rundown of the bill:
- Forces states to implement mandatory voter registration, removing civic participation as a voluntary choice, and increasing chances for error.
- Mandates that states allow all felons to vote.
- Forces states to extend periods of early voting, which has shown to have no effect on turnout.
- Mandates same-day voter registration, which encourages voter fraud.
- Limits the ability of states to cooperate to see who is registered in multiple states at the same time.
- Prohibits election observers from cooperating with election officials to file formal challenges to suspicious voter registrations.
- Criminalizes protected political speech by making it a crime to ‘discourage’ someone from voting.
- Bars states from making their own laws about voting by mail.
- Prohibits chief election officials in each state from participating in federal election campaigns.
- Mandates free mailing of absentee ballots.
- Mandates that states adopt new redistricting commissions.
The bill is more or less a grab bag of progressive priorities, much like the Green New Deal.
Like the misguided movement to abolish the Electoral College, H.R. 1, in the name of democracy, takes a blow torch to the concepts federalism and self-government enshrined in our Constitution.
As the above summary makes clear, H.R. 1 has numerous provisions that would undermine free speech rights, upend the way America conducts elections, encourage voter fraud, and turn election oversight into little more than a partisan weapon to bludgeon foes.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who seems to have positioned herself at the forefront of every piece of radical legislation coming out of the House, dismissed the idea that H.R. 1 is a “power grab” by Democrats.
Democrats took a 1st step to fix the massive, foundational issue of voting reform & money in politics.#HR1 For the People Act by @RepSarbanes was cosponsored by 227 members&passed the House.
Now it’s at the Senate. GOP is calling getting money out of politics a “power grab.” https://t.co/ruzqcN1MgZ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 11, 2019
She had to make an almost immediate correction after that tweet, as the legislation has not yet passed the House. Even if it did, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said it wouldn’t pass in the Senate, where Republicans hold a majority.
Ocasio-Cortez has a penchant for missteps, but she’s a good barometer for where the progressive base in America is.
In this bill, the left has shown it is willing to make a “naked attempt to change the rules of American politics to benefit one party,” as McConnell noted. But beyond that, H.R. 1 is most concerning for the devastating effect it would have on our federal republic.
National Review’s David French summed it up perfectly:
At its essence, the bill federalizes control over elections to an unprecedented scale, expands government power over political speech, mandates increased disclosures of private citizens’ personal information (down to name and address), places conditions on citizen contact with legislators that inhibits citizens’ freedom of expression, and then places enforcement of most of these measures in the hands of a revamped Federal Election Commission that is far more responsive to presidential influence.
Certainly, the effort to get around the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision through a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics is misguided and an assault on free speech. It is at odds with our right to free speech and, in the end, would mostly benefit insiders and incumbents who know how to play the Washington game of navigating arcane campaign finance laws.
Further, it would require donors to disclose their own private information in the name of “transparency.”
This is how democracy descends into mob rule. It’s why the Founders erected barriers to guard against a tyrannical majority. Given the way progressives brazenly attack and shame dissenters on college campuses—and increasingly in public life—it is all the more urgent that individual privacy rights be protected. Privacy is a cornerstone of liberty.
Perhaps the most concerning aspect of H.R. 1 is what it would do to American election laws and how it would not just undermine, but bulldoze any semblance of federalism left in our political system.
H.R. 1 would stop state legislatures from drawing up their own congressional districts and would mandate independent commissions in their place.
As I’ve written in the past, getting rid of legislative redistricting, sometimes known as “gerrymandering,” is a “cure” worse than the disease. Redistricting will always be partisan, no matter who does it. Laws to prevent this would simply drive partisan redistricting underground, where it would be done in secret by an unelected, uncountable commission rather than openly by a legislature.
Again, even if this were good policy, it assumes that the federal government has the right to dictate how states run their elections. It would take away the right of the citizens of a state to make their own choices on these issues.
H.R. 1 contains other violations of federalism—and the Constitution—including mandates to restore voting rights to felons as soon as they are released from prison and stop states from finding and removing ineligible voters.
And it gets worse.
After nationalizing American election laws, H.R. 1 would put them all under the watchful eye of a “revamped” Federal Election Commission. This is perhaps the most brazenly partisan element of the bill.
The Federal Election Commission currently allows six members (though it currently only has four), with a requirement that four members sign on to any decision in order for it to pass. It has an even number of Republican and Democratic appointees—thus, it takes both parties to agree to prosecute a violation of federal law. This prevents the party in control of the White House from enforcing the law in a partisan fashion.
H.R. 1 would change that by making the commission a five-person body comprised of the president’s appointees, with the president’s party able to appoint three of the five. This would make the commission into a partisan body beholden to the president.
Proponents say this would end the current “deadlock,” but in reality it would turn the commission into a partisan tool to be used by the president. It would be an egregious concentration of power, especially given the way the rest of the bill would nationalize American elections.
While the Framers weren’t unanimous about how much power states should have relative to the federal government, none would have thought it a good idea to give near-tyrannical power to an unelected body of five people, which is what H.R. 1 would essentially do.
The “For the People Act” really is little more than a progressive power grab intended to manipulate election rules to favor liberals, and it is an anti-democratic bill that would upend America’s electoral system.
As with the Green New Deal, it is a vehicle for introducing ideas that would fundamentally transform our republic into something we would not recognize at all.
Rest assured that any bill on voting coming from the democrats will only give power to the mob through decomocratic movements to remove any Federalism left to us from our Constitution and the pledge that the general government would ensure that the States remained soverign through having republican and federational government.
Once the mob rules, there goes the Electoral College by which the States, as parties to the contract, selected our leaders in the general government (called Federal government).
If you want socialism and all its ills for America, just go ahead and support mass democracy. It has begun and is advertised well by democrats calling themselves democratic socialists, though few of them even know what that means.
AOC and her greens are watermelon socialists, Marxists red on the inside while being green on the outside. But it’s all camouflage. Communists would be more accurate, but too many were convinced that Communism failed when the Soviet Union fell. Not so. It is here and is alive and well within our once great States and nation.
Be sure and let your Senators know you expect a “no” vote if this comes up in the Senate.
Recipe for 1 party rule ? – NO !
Recipe for a Civil War ? – YES !
AOC – America’s Original Crackpot
GBA/MALL/MAGA#45 !
What are the real Americans waiting for? We have to get rid of people like this. If we do not stand up for OUR RIGHTS, and the PRESIDENT, we will find ourselves living in a communist country.
Doesnt ballott harvesting do these for the Left unless GOP counters, I say NO.
One party rule ala their party rule, No
This crap has to be nipped in the bud. No patriot will ever rid our election system of the electoral college , because the e-college is the only fair way to elect our Potus…
Anything that comes out of the House for the next 2 years is going to be toilet worthy. The democrats are marketing insanity as an improvement. If the Senate does not hold up, we are all in very big trouble. We are only 1 election away from tyranny folks.
This bill is creeping communism/socialism with the installation of a tyrant, not a President as the goal. This bill is “for the tyrants” NOT
“for the people” and AOC is definitely a lunatic who thinks she knows it all. I am appalled at the nerve and ignorance of this woman. She is out to destroy this country along with the media. She is basically a traitor and is not worthy of being in a leadership position of any kind in our country. The media is complicit with destruction of our basic rights and freedoms. They are all “power mad” tyrants and think they can escape all the negatives associated with this kind of idiotic, self serving thinking. She looks like a raving maniac. Disgusting. We are not all stupid.
MORE PROOF THAT THE DEMO-RATS WANT TOTAL CONTROL OF THE PEOPLE. A LIBERAL SOCIALIST “ELITES ONLY” RULING BY THE GREEDY SELF SERVING SCUMBAGS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED TO BE A FREE NATION GOVERNED BY THE PEOPLE “NOT” BY A SELF SERVING RABBLE. WE FOUGHT TO BE FREE FROM THE SCUM OF THE KINGS AND DICTATORS AND VOWED NEVER TO ALLOW ANY TYRANNICAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OVER AND RULE. THIS IS WHY THE 2nd AMENDMENT WAS ESTABLISHED, TO PROTECT US AGAINST ANY INVASIONS BY FOREIGN NATIONS AND “ALSO FOR THE PEOPLE TO “DEFEND” THEMSELVES FROM ANY TYPE OF TYRANNICAL TAKEOVER BY GREEDY, POWER HUNGRY GOVERNMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE PEOPLES LIVES AND OF ALL MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. OVER 200 YEARS AGO WE DECLARED OURSELVES AS A NATION OF FREE PEOPLE AND BECAME A GREAT NATION. TODAY THE GREEDY LIBERAL SOCIALIST DEMO-RATS WANT TO PUT US BACK UNDER THE RULE OF A KING OR DICTATOR BY DESTROYING THE “CONSTITUTION” AND TAKING AWAY ALL OF OUR FREEDOMS! WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE AND WE WILL HAVE TO EITHER SUBMIT OR GO TO WAR WITH THESE DESTROYERS OF AMERICA.
AOC.. is a nut job, along with most of the DEMOCRATIC LEFTIST. this has to stop she needs to be deported to a deserted island along with the rest of her chronies…
All that is coming out the House for the next two years is a Communist agenda. The elites have everything by force and the common people have nothing and are destitute. When are “We the People” going to wake up and as Peter Benchley said in the movie “Network,” “I’m mad as h***, and I’m not going to take it anymore?”
This fraud can be stopped. For starters … All National Election Days should be on Sunday or made a special holiday, one day only, absentee ballots only for “legitimate” overseas voters. No more month long voting periods, make voter ID mandatory, and no more E-voting. Real voters will always find time and manage to vote, historically they always have. These “loose” voting rules were purposely created over the years to provide for vote manipulation, the very thing we’re witnessing today. If allowed to continue, one-person-one-vote soon won’t count, there are too many ways to play with outcomes and results.
They still just can’t get over Hillary loosing…now they want to make sure they never loose another election. Just how many are communist in our congress I wonder. Wish we had a “Mc Carthy” when you need him…!
The Democrats are attacking on all fronts. Their goal is to tear down, the well thought out system of government
left to us by the our nations founders. Their goal is to replace it with one party, politically correct, socialistic rule.
They believe their way is the only way, and no one has the right to challenge them!!! WE ALL need to fight back,
NOW, before it is to late.
It’s past time for a Convention of States to restore original, Constitutional state sovereignty and throttle DC and all the unelected bureaucrats everywhere.
I pray this bill dies in the house, please God do no allow this to ever move any further than where it is today. This bill will insure socialism/communism for ever more in America. Our founders were correct in how they set up our elections and America should continue to follow their lead. If this does succeed America will definetly see another civil war.
This bill should be renamed “The election fraud enabling act of 2019”.
Yes, Hillary won the majority of the popular vote (barely), but her strength was in just a few States holding most of the national population. The Electoral College was created to ensure the voters of ALL of the States have a fair voice in the election of President. With today’s sorry state of civics education (where it still exists) does not teach why we have the Electoral College. Looking at a map of the States and who won the electoral vote in 2016, you will see that most of America on the map is red with the blue States mostly along the East and West Coast. “Fly-over” country still had a voice in the 2016 election – just barely.
If it comes to this ridiculous pro democ rat baloney there would be no reason to vote.After what barry did and is still trying to do and the pelosi’s and schummer and the Clintons and the AND goes on and on.I was an independent voter before I saw what the democ rats were up to,no more,NEVER a democ rat.
While I agree that we are walking in a very dangerous time with the socialist-democrats wanting a take over, it causes me to stop and ask, what can we do short of voting during elections? I’ve heard many people make the statement that ‘we need to stand up to them’ but exactly how do we do that?
Keep fighting for what is right!!!!!
Totally ridiculous!!!!
Nothing in our elations. Our Constitution are to be touched by these crazies socialist democratics those trying need , Removed
Democrats are ALWAYS about getting POWER and keeping POWER!!!! They will do anything to make it illegal to go against them and their ideology and wrap it all up in democratic terms for the uneducated coming out of the public school system and our indoctrination centers called universities! What’s so sad is these uneducated, indoctrinated young people will latch onto this BS until they have voted themselves in their own prison!!!!
They also are doing this on a State by State basis In MI the passage of Proposals 2 and 3 guaranteed that there will never again be a Republican elected to State-Wide offiece in MI; Democrates will take control of the MI House and Senate forever in the next election or 2; voting by illegals will become common/normal; MI will be a Sanctuary State within the next 4 years and there is no chance whatsoever of Trump winning MI in 2020
This is heading toward SOCIALISM!!!!! WAKE UP AMERICIA!!!
So how do you wake the naïve? that are being manipulated by the democrats???
I do believe that that the Democrats, Liberals and Socialist are absolutely down right insane. If American Citizens believe that this bill H. R. 1 would do anything but destroy our Freedoms and our Constitution, you are sadlly mistaken. All of this proves that we have way to many Idiots in our Political System. I’ll close with this Our Founding Fathers never included Career Politications and certainly not people who put themselves above the American People who elected them.
This is more garbage by the democrats
Got to thinking about the bill and realized a “law” such as H.R. 1 cannot override Article II Section 1 of the Constitution. The Electoral College is a part of the Constitution. No wonder there are some calling for a Con con, they would make sure the Electoral College, among other protections would be written out of any new document.
I still wrote to my Congressman asking him to vote against the H.R.
I also brought up the fact that nobody had time to study the 1,100 page funding bill last week before passing it along with the poison pills it contains. I told him any legislation that is not allowed enough time for a careful study of it’s contents should get an automatic no vote. No more “You have to pass it to see what’s in it” should be allowed.
As anybody with a functioning brain already knows that any democrat in office got there by voter fraud.
The above is a continuation of the premise that we are a ” Democracy” . We are not. We are a Republic. There is nothing within the U.S. or State Constitution’s, that declares or identifies , the United Sates as a Democracy. That has been permeated, by self serving Politicians, both active serving or long diseased, and of course. The free speech advocates the news organizations. They have continuously, bombarded , the public with the premise that they alone are the Free Speech medium for the Public, and of course ,by the Constitution. Politicians support the same, for self serving purposes. Power Baby, Power! Take away from everyone else because they know what’s best for the rest of us: Cattle or is that sheep! I keep forgetting!
Why is it that 1 liberal federal judge can and has stopped the President from doing anything without a fight and not 1 conservative judge can even slowdown these LUNATICS ? Because conservative elected officials DO NOTHING. They should have done something when they had the majority in both the house and the senate but they don’t want to make any decisions that may compromise their reelection. Fence Sitters.
It is past time for term limits for congress.
First off: I am an Independent voter and thinker. At least, I am until the State Controllers, doesn’t matter what State one lives in , requires the voter, to claim one political Party over any other. They claim that’s, for only the general election. Then you have the freedom to select that (parties Candidate placed on the ballot) . So much for freedom of choice! Party come first. Now I ask you. What’s wrong with this picture?
Has it ever occurred to the U.S. Government. To investigate, just how one party dominates , over the over and over again. Oh Wait. They are not funded , so there is no money available, to do their job!
How so many voters from such small and poor counties , with only small registered voters , find an abundance of voters. and of course how the Parties can change the districts . in order to get what they want! I get the Dead part. Prove it. Nope!
That has been blocked from anyone who searches for the truth. That law or law’s, at both State and Federal level, was designed to protect all political parties, within the election system!
It starts with controlling the States. Over the Years, the Democrat party has gained so much control of the following States: New York, California, Oregon and Washington ( the State). Added to that list is of course: Chicago, IL.
Now what we Americans used to call an old enemy” Communism” is now the NEW Socialism . Which of course is the Old Nazism, that Stalin , Lenin and Mao and of course , we should not forget the newest member ” Venezuela”.
Gee. Golly!
This is nothing less than an attempt at a coup de etat through legislative means. It would be a lot quicker than waiting for their open borders policy to provide them with an electoral majority. Thank heavens that Trump had the opportunity to appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court to block any such nonsense from becoming law.
Let’s hope he gets to appoint another one to cement the current conservative majority.
The socialist democratic platform over the next several years may be to change the United States of American to the United Socialist State of America. In order to accomplish this transition, the socialist democratic party first needs a one-party government. How can this be accomplished? Consider the following tactics. **Make sure that all registered democrats remain loyal to the “party”. **Continue the flood of illegal/undocumented aliens into our country. **Push for open borders including not only the southern one but also, north, west, and east. **Provide voting rights (all elections) to every person in this country that is 16 years of age and older. **With population increases (because of mass immigration) increase the number of congressional seats in states having accepted this population. **Water down and then dissolve the constitution. **Remove the constitutional requirement that all states have only two senators; rather, state populations would dictate the number of senators. **Increase fake new stories and increase the daily attacks on President Trump. **Intensify physical and psychological attacks on all conservatives, be it a local small town family or an official in Washington, D.C.
If you and I want to be harassed, threatened, or even physically attacked, wear a MAGA hat in public. We should all be mad as hell. This crap can be ended IF Republicans,
Libertarians, bluedog Democrats, Independents fuse together into ONE STRONG, LARGE, COHESIVE VOTING BLOCK FOR 2020 AND WAY BEYOND.
The idiots (voters) here in Michigan have just approved a ballot proposal that accomplishes many of the noxious objectives stated in this bill. Like their advertising slogan says, “Pure Michigan!” Last one out, please turn off the light.
Since this bill could stop groups like Judicial Watch from cleaning up voting rolls, I wonder if Sarbanes wrote it because one of the Counties he represents (Montgomery) has more registered voters than actual people of voting age? Of course this could be coincidental {sarc}.
Our real problem is the failure of our Congress, with the Justice Dept., to uphold our laws. Occasio-Cortez by law, must be removed from office and prosecuted. She is an avowed socialist and it is not legal for her as an elected officials to remain in office according to our US Codes. When she took office, she swore an oath of loyalty to our Constitutional Republic (in which she obviously committed perjury). The problem is our Justice Dept. has failed to uphold these laws. It is time, that we stand and demand that the laws be upheld. Socialists, communists, terrorists, anarchists, etc are not allowed to remain as elected officials or judges. Treason, sedition, rebellion, and insurrection are the issues and that is what we are seeing. We legally have the right by the Constitution to take action.
The democrats keep pushing us into a divided country which is just what the Russians and Chinese want. We can never allow the democrats to gain any more power than they have now. We cannot let our guard down.
Hitler basically had the same idea! So, we exchanged Hitler with another leader, the Leader of the House of Representatives. If the democrats ever get control of both houses, it will be the end of America. After all, we now have Islamic members of the house and a larger group of “elected” officials that do not believe in God or that we are a Christian nation. Like when our then President Obama told the American people that “we are not a Christian nation”. Just because he is not a Christian, does not mean that America isn’t. I still can’t believe that he was even re-elected. If the Christian people don’t take control of what is going on in Washington, we will lose our freedoms to people who do not want freedom. There are at least 5 in the house that want us “taken out”!!
As usual, the marxist are trying any weasel way to take power. The last thing they are worried about is “democracy” or republic.
If you are Republican and vote early, there is a very good chance your vote will be changed to democrat or disappear. This is why they want the early voting. Then they can add in fake votes as needed knowing the number they will probably need. They can take ballot boxes away in the trunks of cars and even in large trucks with no consequences as they have done in the past so they can be replaced with democrat votes. DO NOT VOTE EARLY! You are giving the democrats who strive to be in charge of election sites the time to change Republican votes. If they see the Republican votes are outnumbering the democrat votes they know how many democrat votes they need to pre-fabricate.
Well, that is socialism and it seems the Democratic Party has embraced it. Does anyone of the younger generation understand what it means to be a socialist? I believe Nazi Germany was socialistic with Hitler spearheading the movement. What other countries embrace Socialism: Russia, China, Cuba…How is that working for them? It isn’t! Wake up American we are being led the wrong way.
The Socialist are coming, the socialist are coming; Americans prepare to stand your ground!
This is an attempt to legalize everything the Democrats have been doing for years. This would insure that the Democrats would never lose another election. and the y only have to campaign in three or four states.
Now that their real goal is out in the open, we better make sure that President Trump gets reelected, along with bumping up to at least a 60 person majority Conservative / Republican Senate in 2020. Here in wonderful Nevada, all of the Progressive / Democrat bills vetoed by our last Republican Governor are being reintroduced and are being quickly signed into law our or new Progressive / Democrat Governor. This same thing would most likely happen if we loose the majority in the Senate. We really need both a strong Conservative / Republican majority in the Senate and a strong for the people President like President Trump for the next six years. After that, only God knows what we will need.
Another socialist push for control of America. This country was formed for the people, not for the socialists. Eliminating the electoral college would guarantee control by the socialist party. No wonder the socialists want more and more illegals voting. Encroachment on the rights of Americans. Citizens of America need to wake up and get rid of the socialist scum.
The Democrats hates President Trump & they will do anything to try & destroy his Presidency!!!!
NO MATTER WHAT ONE’S PARTY IS- NO PARTY CAN DECLARE ITSELF TO RULE AN ELECTION SYSTEM- THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT
DEMOCRACY!! RIGHT NOW OUR COUNTRY IS
BEING RIDICULED BY THE REST IF THE WORLD BECAUSE THE U.S.A. IS TRYING TO
“POLICE” THE WORLD WHILE TRUMP IS STILL
INSISTING ON BUILDING A WALL WORTH 5 TO 6 BILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS. HERE’S A FACT: THE HAS BEEN TUNNELS BUILT UP TO 50 FEET DEEP FOR DECADES!! IN ADDITION WITH TRUMP TRYING TO IMPOSE SANCTIONS ON CHINA AND OTHER NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES( N.KOREA/ JAPAN)
IS JUST SETTING THE U.S.A. FOR WW3 IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. WE NEED A SYSTEM THAT WORKS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD! AFTER ALL WE SUPPOSED TO SET THE PROPER FOR THE
FUTURE GENERATIONS. IF NOT NOW- WHEN?
THE WORLD NEEDS TO PUT GOD MOST HIGH BEFORE OUR PERSONAL NEEDS THAT IS THIS
WORLDLY SOCIETY NEEDS MORE NOW THAN
EVER! NO POLITICAL PARTY RULES!!
Actually it would be better for our Republic if people that don’t know their butts from first base would not vote. Millions of people do not know a thing about the candidates…who they are, what are the issues, what is each candidates position on those issues, and what is the incumbents record. Millions of people vote based on race alone. Some people do not possess the intelligence to understand the issues and the ramifications of their vote. Some people only vote for who pays them the most or as they are told by their boss, family, or friends. The longer the electorate remains clueless the further left the country moves. Maybe it is time to go back to literacy testing in order to register.
We would never fully be a country of one single party because of all the blends of cultural thinking. Each specific ideology always thinks their thinking is the right and should be the only way. But that would never work in a single party, even if they claim that they represent the populace. The only ones our elected officials represent is those who line their pockets well and they don’t let the populace know who those are. Greed alone will never tolerate being under a single control as there’s always someone fighting to be on top. As far as the Republicans go, they do need to get more aggressive towards the far left thinking performance of the Democrats by reacting better to those tactics.