Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

 

H.R. 1 and H.R. 4 are wolves in sheep's clothing.
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Sam Carter and Marc-Olivier Jodoin
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Watch Out, Americans!

Two bills that just today (January 13, 2021) passed in the U.S. House of Representatives are a serious threat to free and fair elections in our nation. Here's what they are and what they would do if they made it into law:

The Deception

H.R. 1 is benignly titled the "For the People Act" as though it's championing the American people, when it's really a bill designed to channel your money into the pockets of corrupt career politicians!

H.R. 4 is entitled the "John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" is designed to play upon people's desire for social justice against oppressive voting laws that have not been in effect for more than 50 years. It foments racial division and tries to pull the wool over the eyes of voters by using the name of a beloved congressman who died in 2021.

The Reality

These two bills would do several things to endanger free and fair elections in the United States. They are designed to keep the Democrats in power and make several types of the voter fraud that happened in 2020 completely legal. Here's a rundown of several things they would do:

• Eliminate voter I.D. requirements - Not only to vote, but to register to vote. This would mean that another person could go into your voting precinct and tell them they were you, cast a vote in your name that would not be the vote you would have cast, and it would all be allowed. What's more, without any I.D. required to register to vote, anybody could register to vote, whether or not they are a U.S. citizen. Remember all those illegal immigrants the Democrats have been bringing into our nation and placing all over the country? Any of them could register to vote, just as though they were here legally.
  No country allows non-citizens to vote in their elections! Don't believe it? Go to any other country and try to cast a vote there as a non-citizen. You won't be allowed to, and you'll most likely be thrown in jail.
• Encourage ballot harvesting - This is currently an illegal practice, in which a group collects ballots from voters and "helps" them by turning them in to be tallied. Partisan groups who do this have a bad habit of either marking blank ballots for their candidates, or trashing any ballots that are not marked for their candidates, never turning them in to be counted. (That's why it's illegal.) Ballot harvesting was done in many places in the 2020 election, and Democrats now want to make it legal.
• Set up a 6-to-1 match of government funds for any donation to a candidate of less than $200 - Let's take a look at his from a budgetary point of view. One candidate in particular raised $18,898,102 in donations of under $200. That would mean that taxpayers would need to match that to the tune of $113 million. That's your money, going to a candidate you may not support, at a rate of six times what the original donation was! If you're a conservative, imagine that candidate was AOC. If you're a liberal, imagine that candidate was Donald Trump. Still in favor of it? Thought not.
• Mandate automatic voter registrations - This may seem like a good thing...but what it does is pad the voter rolls with a lot of people who don't care about voting and will never cast a vote. What does that do for political activists who want to cheat? It gives them lots of room to inject fake ballots into the count. Voter rolls are supposed to be cleaned up by removing the names of dead people and those who have moved elsewhere to keep the number of registered voters within a reasonably accurate count. Percentages of likely voters vs. total voters registered are fairly predictable, so their addition of these ballots stands out when the voter rolls are accurate. But with so many people registered who never vote, it's less detectable.
• Allows for same-day voter registration - This means that someone can walk into a polling place on Election Day, register to vote, and cast a vote. Why is this not a good idea? Voter registrations are checked against the Social Security database and other government databases to ensure that the person casting a vote is legally allowed to do so. When the person registers and votes on the same day, there is no time to verify 1) that they are who they say they are, and 2) that they are a citizen who is legally allowed to cast a vote.
• Makes Merrick Garland the "Election Czar" - Attorney General Merrick Garland is the same guy who called parents "domestic terrorists" for speaking up on behalf of their children at school board meetings. That's how partisan he is. This is not a man we need in charge of election integrity in our nation.

These two bills passed in the House today, because Democrats hold a majority there. Now they go to the Senate.

Strategy in the Senate

With only a slim (one-vote) majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats do not have the votes to pass this bill, thanks to the filibuster.

What is the filibuster? It's a requirement that any bill get a minimum of 60 votes in order to pass, not the simple majority of 51 that would be required by a simple-majority rule. Get rid of the filibuster, and these bills pass in the Senate, and will to to the White House to be signed into law. 

Here's some context: when President Trump was in office, Democrats used the filibuster 314 times over 4 years to stop bills in his agenda from passing in the Senate. Now that Democrats have a slim majority, however, they want to take away that right from Republicans. Two Senators of their own party do not agree with that decision, and will vote against removing the filibuster. If all the Republicans vote to keep it, that portion of their strategy will fail. And, hopefully, so will these anti-American bills.

How You Can Help

If you value free and fair elections in our nation, call your U.S. Senators - each state has two - and tell them to vote:

• to keep the filibuster
• vote "No" on these "Voting Rights" bills.

You can find the phone number for your senators' Washington offices by choosing your state  from the drop-down menu here: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm. There is no time to waste; these issues will be voted on quickly. Democrats are moving at light speed to push forward their agenda before their failures catch up with them and people wake up to their true intentions for our nation. Don't let them succeed in killing our free nation. Take action today!