What does "election integrity" actually mean to Democrats? A perspective is provided by the Democrat-sponsored "For the People Act" (H.R.1 in the current Congress), a dreadfully misnamed legislative mess that purports to improve election integrity and transparency.
Some of its features are:
• Mandates automatic, universal voter registration, and makes it a crime to interfere with registration
• Allows voter registration at age 16
• Mandates early voting of at least 15 days and requires paper ballots
• Restricts and impedes routine voter roll maintenance
• Prescribes strict rules for redistricting and authorizes court takeover of redistricting
• Regulates digital political advertising outright, and restricts corporate political engagement
• Requires disclosure of donors by Super PACs and so-called "dark money" groups
• Requires presidential candidates and incumbents to release 10 years of tax returns
• Supports a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision
• Supports statehood for the District of Columbia
You can see where this goes -- a grandiose "big picture" reform program that mostly suppresses free speech, cements Leftist influence, and protects incumbents -- but does virtually nothing to address actual, on-the-ground election integrity.........To Read More.....
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