The Democrats pass HR 1 – For the People Act of 2021. As we go through the bill, we will see the only people being benefitted are Democrat politicians.

The Senate passes a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus deal. Republicans think this is going to be a disaster.

 

HR 1

The Democrats have decided that if they could win an election with a guy that doesn’t run and is practically dead, they can win anytime. So, this week, the House passed HR 1. This would make it that future elections will be just as chaotic as the election of 2020. This is the worst example of the Democrats trying to retain power at any means necessary.

Remember when we used to have election day. You went out, stood in line, voted, put that little sticker on and then, when you got home, the counting started and we found out who won the election by midnight Pacific time? You know, the elections worked. Sometimes your candidate won. Sometimes he/she lost.

Now Democrats want to make sure they never lose again. Here’s what HR 1 or the For the People Act of 2021. This will be from the Heritage Foundation.

Seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.

Registration is part of the voting process and it is a pain in the ass. It should be a pain in the ass. One should want to vote. Anyone who does not make an effort to vote probably shouldn’t be voting.

This federalizes the voting process. It takes it away from the states. This shouldn’t be a surprise because of how the Democrats are trying to eliminate the electoral college.

This is unconstitutional.

Make it easier to commit fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration, as election officials would have no time to verify the accuracy of voter registration information and the eligibility of an individual to vote and could not anticipate the number of ballots and precinct workers that would be needed at specific polling locations.

There’s a reason one must register two weeks in advance of the election. So one can be verified.

Because this takes the process away from the state, the is probably unconstitutional.

Hurt voter turnout through 15 days of mandated early voting by diffusing the intensity of get-out-the-vote efforts; it would raise the cost of campaigns. Voters who vote early don’t have the same information as those who vote on Election Day, missing late-breaking developments that could affect their choices.

I think this is one of the reason Trump lost. People were voting before the debates and the Biden scandals were released. People did not know everything about their candidates before they voted.

We don’t three weeks to vote. For the last 240 years, we have been voting on one day. There’s no need for 15 days of voting.

Degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to “citizens”) from state and federal databases, such as state Departments of Motor Vehicles, corrections and welfare offices, and federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. This would register large numbers of ineligible voters, including aliens, and cause multiple or duplicate registrations of the same individuals and put federal agencies in charge of determining a person’s domicile for voting purposes (as well as that individual’s taxing state).

This is what California is doing right now with the DMV. If you register at the DMV you are automatically registered for the election. California said that it has nothing to do with illegals voting and that there are separate forms for legal citizens and illegal aliens. Problem is the forms are identical and there have been “mistakes”.

This is fraught with corruption.

Constitute a recipe for massive voter registration fraud by hackers and cyber criminals through online voter registration that is not tied to an existing state record, such as a driver’s license. It would make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application even when it is rejected “under color of law” because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote. It would also require states to allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to register; when combined with a ban on voter ID and restrictions on the ability to challenge the eligibility of a voter, this would effectively ensure that underage individuals could vote with impunity.

Nothing, when it comes to registration or voting, should be done online. It is way too insecure. Registration to vote and voting should be done on paper. Period. We’ve been doing this for almost 250 years and it has always worked. Technology does not benefit voting or registering at all.

Allowing 16-year-olds to vote is just stupid. Sixteen year olds are dumb. Sorry, they are. It’s also unconstitutional per the 26th Amendment of the Constitution. If the Democrats want this, they have to add another amendment to the Constitution repealing the 26th Amendment.

Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states that allows election officials to monitor votes, staff polling places, provide enough ballots, and prevent election fraud.

Again, this replaces state laws with federal laws. This is probably unconstitutional.

Mandate no-fault absentee ballots, which are the tool of choice for vote thieves. It would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots; force states to accept absentee ballots received up to 10 days after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day; and require states to allow vote trafficking (vote harvesting) so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots.

This will allow for nothing but corruption. California does this now and is the primary reason Democrats have held every office including offices in red districts.

First off, 10 days after the election votes can be counted?! Are you kidding?! You mean with all the technology we have, our voting system is worse not than it was in the 1980s?

This also allows for cherry picking of ballots. If I want a Democrat to win, I will only pick up ballots for registered Democrat.

Another problem is ballot harvesters have been known to intimidate and influence voters who may not have completed their ballots. This has happened in California, especially with the older voters.

Finally, this brings into question the chain of custody for the ballots. Who are these ballot harvesters? Do they manipulate the ballots they’re picking up? Do the ballots even get to their destination? We have seen videos that this sometimes doesn’t happen.

Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters. This includes restrictions on using the U.S. Postal Service’s national change-of-address system to verify the address of registered voters; participating in state programs that compare voter registration lists to detect individuals registered in multiple states; or ever removing registrants due to a failure to vote no matter how much time has elapsed. It also would substantially limit the public release of voter registration information, making it almost impossible for nonpartisan organizations to verify the accuracy of registration rolls, and prohibit states from using undeliverable election mail as a basis for challenging a registrant’s eligibility.

No ID for voters. No address verification. No signature verification. Improperly filled out ballots remain counted. Yeah, nothing to see here.

Ban state voter ID laws by forcing states to allow individuals to vote without an ID and merely signing a statement in which they claim they are who they say they are.

I need an ID to drive, drink, get a hotel room, board a plane, see an R-rated movie, buy a gun, pay with a check or credit card, withdraw money from my bank and lease an apartment. But I don’t need one to vote. Wow.

Violate the First Amendment with respect to a vast range of legal activity. Voter intimidation or coercion that prevents someone from registering or voting is already a federal crime under the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act. But H.R. 1 would add a provision criminalizing “hindering, interfering, or preventing” anyone from registering or voting, which is so vague and so broad that it could prevent providing any information to election officials about the ineligibility of an individual, such as an applicant not being a U.S. citizen.

We have to see if this will conflict with existing laws. But I believe this provision makes it that questioning an illegal alien about voting could be construed as voter intimidation.

Expand regulation and government censorship of campaigns and political activity and speech, including online and policy-related speech. H.R. 1 would impose onerous legal and administrative compliance burdens and costs on candidates, citizens, civic groups, unions, corporations, and nonprofit organizations. Many of these provisions violate the First Amendment, protect incumbents, and reduce the accountability of politicians to the public; its onerous disclosure requirements for nonprofit organizations would subject their members and donors to intimidation and harassment—the modern equivalent of the type of disclosure requirements the U.S. Supreme Court in NAACP v. Alabama (1958) held violated associational rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

This is probably unconstitutional because the Federal government cannot impose laws on states. If the regulation change state laws, that’s a problem.

Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five, allowing the political party with three commission seats to control the commission and engage in partisan enforcement activities.

This can actually bite both parties in the ass. Just not a solid decision.

Prohibit state election officials from participating in federal elections and impose numerous other “ethics” rules that are unconstitutional or unfairly restrict political activity, eliminating the ability of the residents of specific states to make their own decisions about what rules should govern their state government officials.

Unconstitutional. We don’t have a federal election. We have 50 state elections. Each state has rules their legislatures passed.

Require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison regardless of uncompleted parole, probation, or restitution requirements. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment gives states the constitutional authority to decide when felons who committed crimes against their fellow citizens may vote again. Congress cannot override a constitutional amendment with a statute.

This is right. It is unconstitutional.

Transfer the right to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to “independent” commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters. H.R. 1 would make it a violation of federal law to engage in “partisan” redistricting and mandate the inclusion of alien population, both legal and illegal, in all redistricting. This is an anti-democratic, unconstitutional measure that would take away the ability of the citizens of a state to make their own decisions about redistricting.

Again, the federal government can’t tell states how to run their elections.

Authorize the Internal Revenue Service to engage in partisan activity. H.R. 1 would permit the IRS to investigate and consider the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status, thus enabling IRS officials to target organizations engaging in First Amendment activity with disfavored views.

I hate this for three reasons.

First, I’m not sure what this is for outside of the IRS going out to harass religious and conservative organizations. That leads to my second problem with it.

The IRS has already proven partisan and has been used as a weapon for Barrack Obama during his term. Yeah, the guy who never had a sandal. This would just make the weaponization of the IRS legal.

Finally, the last thing this country needs, especially when dealing with voting, is another bureaucracy. The IRS is the epitome of bureaucracy. It also is a bureaucracy that has already condemned certain groups. Probably want to keep them out of this one.

Limit access to federal courts for anyone challenging H.R. 1. The bill would prohibit the filing of any lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of H.R. 1 anywhere except in the District Court for the District of Columbia and would allow the court to order all plaintiffs and intervenors, regardless of their number (such as all 50 states), “to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument,” severely limiting the legal representation and due process rights of challengers.

Very convenient to make a law that says we can’t use the law to say this law shouldn’t be a law.

Yeah, this is unconstitutional.

Establish a “Commission to Protect Democratic Institutions” that would threaten the independence of the judiciary. H.R. 1 defines “democratic institutions” as those that are “essential to ensuring an independent judiciary, free and fair elections and the rule of law.” The commission would be given the authority to compel judges to testify and justify their legal decisions, threatening their independent judgment and subjecting them to political pressure and harassment.

Awesome! Another bureaucracy that will attack other parts of the government. The judiciary is meant to be independent. This would break that.

This is also unconstitutional.

Here’s the news about this bill. It will never pass the Senate. Senators from small blue or purple states will not pass this. I suspect this is going to get blown out in the Senate.

If it doesn’t, it will get deemed as unconstitutional because…it’s horribly unconstitutional.

https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-facts-about-hr-1-the-the-people-act-2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/key-things-you-need-to-know-about-hr-1-the-for-the-people-act-of-2021_3722659.html

 

Ugh, It Passed!

The Senate passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package. It was passed right down party lines 50-49. Kamala Harris was heading to the Capitol to be the tie breaking vote but a Senator from Alaska needed to go back to Alaska for a funeral.

So let’s make clear here: Not one Republican Senator or Congressperson voted for the bloated bill that will only offer 9% of its price for COVID relief.

Mitch McConnell pretty much summed it up after the bill was passed:

There were a few things that happened before this vote happened:

But the debate on the bill was quickly scuttled by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who requested the entire 628-page legislation be read aloud by the Senate clerks in advance of any discussion on the merits of the proposal. That meant Senate clerks spent the next 10 hours and 44 minutes reading the bill until 2:04 a.m. Friday.

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., worked through the night without sleep, according to a spokesperson, as he prepared to offer amendments to support the Keystone XL pipeline and cut spending from the bill, including about $175 million in transit projects from California, New York and elsewhere.

Sean. Bernie Sanders tried to get the $15 minimum wage stuck in the bill. That failed. He didn’t get any help from Joe Machin or Kirstin Sinima who both rejected the amendment.

The things that were changed in the bill:

• The $15 minimum wage was removed.
• The raising of unemployment raised from $300 to $400 was removed but benefits were extended by two weeks.

 

The bill is being sent back to the House for a vote. But this is not a guaranteed thing. Some of the Leftists are pissed about the minimum wage being removed. Nancy only can afford to lose only four votes. I think it will get through but I will not be broken hearted if it doesn’t. It is a huge, bloated pig of a bill. We have spent $3 trillion last year and will have spent $2 trillion in the first three months of this year.

According to analysis, each person will receive a $1400 check, but it will cost over $5750 per person. I’m no accountant but that seems like a bad deal. A bad deal that our kids and grandkids will be paying for.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kyrsten-sinema-channels-john-mccain-gives-thumbs-down-vote-on-15-minimum-wage-plan
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-covid-relief-bill-final-vote