The Hollywood Liberal

Senator Feinstein’s Election Reform Bill: A Constitutional Heresy

Bradblog
Excerpt
An Anaylsis by a Leading Election Integrity Advocate Charges That Where Rep. Rush Holt’s House Bill on Election Reform Poses Dangers to Democracy, A New Bill Introduced in the Senate is Even Far Worse…
The bill states: “Congress finds that there are certain distinct communities in certain geographic areas that have historically high rates of intentional undervoting in elections for Federal office, relative to the rest of the Nation.”
This “finding” is a deceit. Remember, there is no way to determine the rate of intentional undervoting in a secret ballot system.
But the bill goes on to declare that the EAC may determine which “distinct communities” have a historically high intentional undervote rate and may either set a different benchmark for “local jurisdictions in which that distinct community has a substantial presence” or exempt those jurisdictions from compliance with the national benchmark. So, the exemption wouldn’t just apply to the jurisdictions that had the high undervote rate; it could apply to all jurisdictions across the country that have a “substantial presence” of that “distinct community.”
So, for example, the EAC might use the 2002 election fiasco in Florida’s Miami-Dade County to conclude that African American communities intentionally undervote at rates as high as 28% in federal contests. Then they could declare that all precincts across the country with a “substantial presence” of African Americans will be allowed a higher Presidential undervote rate than other precincts.
HLs Take
What is with Dianne Feinstien? At one point she was a decent Democrat, now she represents everything that is wrong with the party. Big corporate money rules her world and she might as well jump over to the Republicans as far as anything important like perpetual war, and voting is concerned. I guess Feinstien does not want her party to win elections. We need to get someone a lot more liberal in her seat on her next election. Time for retirement Dianne

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