LDS Freedom Forum

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“For The People Act” of 2021,
https://www.heritage.org/election-integ ... e-act-2021

SUMMARY
H.R. 1 would federalize and micromanage the election process administered by the states, imposing unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional mandates on the states and reversing the decentralization of the American election process—which is essential to the protection of our liberty and freedom. It would (among other things) implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred during the 2020 election; go even further in eroding and eliminating basic security protocols that states have in place; and interfere with the ability of states and their citizens to determine the qualifications and eligibility of voters, ensure the accuracy of voter registration rolls, secure the fairness and integrity of elections, and participate and speak freely in the political process.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

H.R. 1 would federalize and micromanage the election process, imposing unnecessary, unwise, and unconstitutional mandates on the states.

It would reverse the decentralization of the American election process—an essential protection of our liberty and freedom.

It would implement nationwide the worst changes in election rules that occurred in 2020 and further damage or eliminate basic security protocols.

This is truly horrific.

https://thenewamerican.com/texas-democr ... fc7fadfbd4

Texas Democrats Walk Out of House Chamber Over Election-integrity Legislation

by James Murphy
June 1, 2021

Rather than register a vote for legislation that would strengthen election integrity in the state, Texas Democrats staged a late night walk-out on Sunday in the House of Representatives in order to deny a quorum and delay the bill from being voted on.

The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 7 earlier on Sunday, which would have tightened rules for voting by mail, banned so-called drive-through voting, and would make it a state felony for public officials to offer mail-in voting applications to voters who did not request them. The bill would have also allowed courts to overturn an election if “the number of votes illegally cast in the election is equal to or greater than the number of votes necessary to change the outcome of an election.”

The bill is one of the most sweeping election-reform packages in the country, and was meant to address some of the glaring problems seen in the 2020 general election.

“This bill is the product of years of hard work and deliberation by past and current legislators,” said State Senator Bryan Hughes and State Representative Briscoe Cain, both Republicans. “Even as the national media minimizes the importance of election integrity, the Texas Legislature has not bent to headlines or corporate virtue signaling.”

Democrats, up to and including President Joe Biden, have labeled the bill an “assault on democracy.” [Good! Because democracy's are bad. The United States of America is a REPUBLIC.]

“Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote,” Biden told the Texas Tribune. “It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year — and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.” [How so? Exactly, how does it do that?]

EmmaLee wrote: ↑June 1st, 2021, 3:08 pm https://thenewamerican.com/texas-democr ... fc7fadfbd4

Texas Democrats Walk Out of House Chamber Over Election-integrity Legislation

by James Murphy
June 1, 2021

Rather than register a vote for legislation that would strengthen election integrity in the state, Texas Democrats staged a late night walk-out on Sunday in the House of Representatives in order to deny a quorum and delay the bill from being voted on.

The Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 7 earlier on Sunday, which would have tightened rules for voting by mail, banned so-called drive-through voting, and would make it a state felony for public officials to offer mail-in voting applications to voters who did not request them. The bill would have also allowed courts to overturn an election if “the number of votes illegally cast in the election is equal to or greater than the number of votes necessary to change the outcome of an election.”

The bill is one of the most sweeping election-reform packages in the country, and was meant to address some of the glaring problems seen in the 2020 general election.

“This bill is the product of years of hard work and deliberation by past and current legislators,” said State Senator Bryan Hughes and State Representative Briscoe Cain, both Republicans. “Even as the national media minimizes the importance of election integrity, the Texas Legislature has not bent to headlines or corporate virtue signaling.”

Democrats, up to and including President Joe Biden, have labeled the bill an “assault on democracy.” [Good! Because democracy's are bad. The United States of America is a REPUBLIC.]

“Today, Texas legislators put forth a bill that joins Georgia and Florida in advancing a state law that attacks the sacred right to vote,” Biden told the Texas Tribune. “It’s part of an assault on democracy that we’ve seen far too often this year — and often disproportionately targeting Black and Brown Americans.” [How so? Exactly, how does it do that?]

They can just say whatever they want and no one calls them out on it. They speak fiction into reality. Almost as if it were truly a miracle.

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

― Karl Rove