GOP Senators Barely Block Democrats’ Bid To End Honest Elections – The Federalist

All 50 Republican senators barely managed to block Democrats election overhaul bill on Tuesday night that would have ended voter ID requirements supported by 80 percent of Americans, allowed voting up to two weeks after election day, legalize ballot harvesting, and more.

In the nearly 900-page For The People Act of 2021, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats would have barred states from protecting themselves against loose voting structures that permeated the 2020 election such as mass vote-by-mail, lax voter ID, and widely inaccurate voting rolls. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris also supported the election bill, which Democrats made their No. 1 priority for their full control of Congress and the presidency this year.

We cant sit idly by while democracy is in peril here, in America. We need to protect the sacred right to vote and ensure We the People choose our leaders, the very foundation on which our democracy rests. We urgently need the For The People Act. Send it to my desk, Biden wrote Tuesday afternoon.

After all of the GOP legislators filibustered the legislation, however, the 60 votes necessary for the bill to pass a procedural vote were not there. Democrats have repeatedly threatened to end this slim protection for minority interests in the Senate, and its existence appears to rest entirely on the good graces of West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin since Republicans lost the Senate through runoff elections in Georgia earlier this year.

Our democracy is stronger when everyone participatesand it is weaker when people are denied meaningful access to participation. Today, as Senate Democrats united around the For The People Act, Senate Republicans voted against advancing it, Harris wrote in a statement.

Whichever label Democrats slap on their bill, the substance remains the same, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said. Its always been a plan to rewrite the ground rules of American politics. Today, the Senates going to fulfill our founding purpose, stop this partisan power grab, and reject S. 1.

Both leftist legislators and the corporate media originally claimed, against all evidence, that the unconstitutional bill would protect Americans voting rights, but Republicans were quick to call the proposal what it was: a political ploy to give Democrats ultimate supervisory power over federal elections. That didnt stop the left from trotting out their usual racist smears of Republicans and making evidence-free claims Republicans want to restrict voter access.

Not only would the bill have let the federal government micromanage state elections, a possibly unconstitutional offense, but one report suggests it would open the floodgates for partisan activity within the IRS and the Federal Elections Commission, hijack federal courts away from election criticisms, and violate the First Amendment with respect to a vast range of legal activity.

The attorneys general of 20 states also agreedthat HR 1 would invert that constitutional structure, commandeer state resources, confuse and muddle elections procedures, and erode faith in our elections and systems of governance.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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