Posted on 07/23/2023 1:19:54 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Why are so many Republicans knuckling under to Democrats’ “temporary” election rules changes?
Crafty Democrats used 2020’s COVID-19 catastrophe to change the way Americans pick our leaders. Democrats filed hundreds of lawsuits to demand mass mail-in ballots, early voting, late arrivals of ballots and other “emergency” measures. They argued that the Coronavirus was just too dangerous for traditional, in-person voting. The George Floyd riots were too important to let these microbes stand in the way, Democrats like former New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio argued.
And yet this virus was so deadly that it merited a Mao-worthy revolution in voting practices.
Now, as the 2024 election looms, COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror. Previously ubiquitous masks disfigure the faces of only a few germaphobes and diehards. Social distancing has gone the way of the Hustle. And yet Democrats’ “one-time” ballot procedures are becoming permanent. Shamefully, top Republicans now bow before them, as if in worship.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s otherwise admirable Republican governor, has launched Secure Your Vote Virginia. He wants GOP voters and their cross-party supporters to cast their ballots early, mail them in and practice ballot trafficking, with voters handing their ballots to party activists, free of the adult supervision found at polling places.
“I need your early vote this year,” Youngkin stated. “We can’t go into Election Day down thousands of votes.”
The Republican National Committee is taking this thinking from coast to coast. Last month, it unveiled Bank Your Vote, an effort to “encourage, educate, and activate Republican voters on when, where, and how to lock in their votes as early as possible, through in-person early voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting where legal.”
WRONG!
All of this is premature, at best.
At worst, it’s totally illegal.
While Virginia can do whatever it wants with state and local elections, it is bound by federal law, as is the RNC’s plan. Federal Election Day is “the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in November, in every even numbered year.” This is not a passage from Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack nor a line that Mark Twain wrote for Ulysses S. Grant. It’s the law.
Specifically, 2 U.S. Code § 7 governs congressional elections, and 3 U.S. Code § 1 covers presidential ballots. These statutes invoke November — not October or September.
Also, voting anywhere other than in person, behind a curtain, destroys something sacred: the secret ballot. Voting at home, by mail, or through ballot traffickers demolishes voters’ confidence that they, and only they, know how they voted. Absentee ballots potentially allow spouses, relatives, bosses, and even door-to-door political activists to pressure voters into casting their ballots one way or another.
“No heart medicine for you, Grandpa, until we inspect your ballot.”
Rather than surrender to the Democrats’ COVID-era assaults on U.S election norms, Republicans should fight ferociously in local, state and federal court to reverse these “one-time, special measures.”
The GOP should follow the lead of The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF). PILF is suing in a North Dakota federal court to kill its law that allows ballot to arrive 13 days after Election Day.
“Election Day has ceased to be a day,” said PILF President, J. Christian Adams. “Instead, we have election month because states accept ballots that arrive days and even weeks after Election Day. Not only does this lead to distrust and chaos in the system, but it also violates federal law. PILF is fighting to end this lawlessness and restore the day in Election Day.”
(Full disclosure: PILF is representing me in a federal lawsuit designed to overturn New York City’s law that allows foreign citizens to vote in local elections.)
If such relentless, robust litigation succeeds, Americans can look forward to a return to election integrity.
And if such lawsuits fail in the U.S. Supreme Court, then — and only then — Republicans should accept the Democrats’ permanent attacks on America’s voting system.
“Republicans Should Fight”
I think I see the problem.
But they won’t.
How about BOTH strategies?
Flood the zone with Mail In, Absentee, and Election Day Voting.
We are constantly told there is no fraud. Any extra votes will be excluded. Don’t take a chance.
VOTE EARLY VOTE OFTEN IS THE MOTTO OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY...
We don't need to go that far - but we need to wave to them in nursing homes as we collect the ballots of 96 year olds who can't even speak anymore.
Ok, we can't do that - but we can takes stacks of folks who didn't show up in our criminal precinct and 'vote them'... Oh well, we'll never be able to our scum the scum party.
“Why are so many Republicans knuckling under to Democrats’ “temporary” election rules changes?”
Why is the Party of right wing containment and controlled opposition not doing anything ?
Oh Deroy. You so crazy......
‘Should’ being the operable word, but it is lost on the spineless wonders that inhabit the GOP
The Republicans will do what they always do: Nothing.Yeah they talk a good game and get all loud at hearings that’s all fine and dandy but what results have been achieved? They had the head of the FBI on the stand and he wouldn’t answer the majority of the questions posed to him and I’ll be as bold as to say this is a losing game unless the majority of the repubs stick together but you can never count on that can you? I am sick and tired of the talk and wish to see actions.
If the Democrats lost a Presidential race like Trump did in 2020 they would have hearings and investigations 24/7 but will you ever see the Republicans do this ? We already know the answer.
Cowards.
The Single Biggest Thing that can be done to fight Election Fraud is to track down and destroy all the mailed ballots that the USPS returns as undeliverable.
“The Single Biggest Thing that can be done to fight Election Fraud is to track down and destroy all the mailed ballots that the USPS returns as undeliverable.”
The postman in this seems to be the most powerful person. He can do as he wishes with returned ballots. There is no accountability. The Republicans seem to be way behind on this and incredibly stupid.
The complicit RINOs are IN ON the rigged elections.
Easy peasy.
Outlaw any voting machine or software made in Communist Chy-Na.
Or any election machine period.
No excrement, Mr. Holmes.
Next question.
Election fraud as far as the eye can see, for years to come.
Teeth? Check.
Nails? Check.
Shivs? Oops.
Nunchucks? Oops.
Garrots? Oops.
Flame throwers? Oops.
Fighting spirit? More than yesterday, but not enough.
How about getting rid of early voting where scandals may not have been covered before early voting takes place?
Don’t you know that Murdock was supposed to be named Roy? They named him Rupert instead. That’s how he got deroyed.
The GOP needs to reestablish the committee structures and have committee lawyers in each town and city at the polls. It’s possible to do this countrywide as most committees have many lawyers who are there for county or town jobs on planning and zoning boards and many want to know people to get judgeships.
Where is Ronna?
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