War Tom Cotton: Democrats Want Pandemic Voting Practices to Be Permanent, National - Legalizing 2020 after the fact

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Democrats seek permanent nationalization of changes to voting practices ostensibly implemented as pandemic safety measures, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Thursday in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Marlow asked how to restore election integrity given the imposition of automatic voter registration and sending of mail-in ballots to addresses on inaccurate voter rolls.

Cotton replied, “The bad news is that [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer want to take what were unusual, rushed voting practices in the middle of a pandemic last year and make them permanent. That’s the first bill they’ve introduced. They’re trying to make vote-by-mail universal across the country, override 50 states’ election laws, eliminate not only photo identification, but signature verification, require mandatory registration. This is a left wing wish list.”
Republican majorities in state legislatures are the best asset in restoring election integrity, Cotton assessed.

“Washington is not going to have a solution to this problem, but it is real problem,” Cotton remarked. “The good news is in many of the states where Democratic governors made big changes at the last minute, those legislatures are in session today, and those legislatures are controlled by Republicans in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and Minnesota.”

Cotton continued, “Georgia and Arizona [do] not just [have] Republican legislatures, but Republican governors, as well. I’ve already spoken to Republican leaders in Washington about giving those legislators the support they need, the lawyers, the expertise to help tighten up their election laws so they’re not in the situation again where they were last year where the Democratic governor has the power to unilaterally make changes without the legislature in session, and therefore the legislature can’t do anything about it.”

Cotton concluded, “I think it has to be a very high priority for Republican legislatures across the country to ensure that what were unusual and rush changes to our election practices in a once-in-a-century pandemic are never repeated again.”

H.R. 1, dubbed the “For the People Act,” would nationally mandate automated mailing out of ballots to registered voters for elections while prohibiting states from having photo-ID requirements for ballot submission or signature verification of ballots.

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This is pretty much an admission that the 2020 election was indeed rigged rule-wise. Ballot harvesting is illegal in the vast majority of states (California being a notable exception), but a way to get around that is to claim to be a kind charity who helps people stuck inside due to covid register to vote. These registrations should never have been allowed, as there is no verification process for them beyond trusting the "charity" who was behind the registrations. Many of the addresses were found to be nursing homes, abandoned buildings, or non-residences. This was explicitly Stacy Abram's strategy in Georgia, something nobody was allowed to question because "no standing", and now they plan to expand it to Texas - which I'm sure the GOPe will just allow to happen because they don't want to be called racist.

Enjoy the future of American politics being "who has the bigger political machine to ballot harvest harder", because that's California and it works "great". It doesn't just benefit democrats, it benefits existing political machines and puts populist candidates of either party at a huge disadvantage.
 
You'd have to genuinely be retarded to like democracy after seeing damn near every single western nation collapsing as a direct result of it.
'Collapsing'. Absolutely laughable. Only idiots who never leave their basements think the fucking world is ending. Try living outside instead of your computer. The totality of negative occurrences in a world of billions will make anyone believe in imminent destruction regardless of how privileged they actually are.
 
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What makes you disagree @FunPosting101? I'm sure what I said is objective fact.
@symantec explained the problem with what you're talking about better than I could, so just refer to his posts on this. I'm also rather pessimistic about the Dems ability to stop Republican redistricting efforts. All I will add further is that the Dems have a rather strong tendency to overplay their hand in political matters and I fully expect them to do that again over the next few years.
 
Am I misunderstanding what the issue is? Mail in has always been an option, no? And for all the fear of voting fraud, I have to wonder what voting is like where you are? Here, they just get your address and check you off. A lot of places have old machines with no reciept of how you voted.

I guess I'm not seeing where this rampant fraud can occur? As if there's a coordinated, national effort dedicated to fraud. Who is supposedly voting for the dead enmass? And every state has this happening? I'm not convinced. If anything, machines would seem more risky, no?
 
'Collapsing'. Absolutely laughable. Only idiots who never leave their basements think the fucking world is ending. Try living outside instead of your computer. The totality of negative occurrences in a world of billions will make anyone believe in imminent destruction regardless of how privileged they actually are.
If you think regular riots in almost every single major western city, and most first world countries trying to destroy their own culture isn't a sign of collapse, you're more delusional than most of the schizo cows here.
 
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@symantec explained the problem with what you're talking about better than I could, so just refer to his posts on this. I'm also rather pessimistic about the Dems ability to stop Republican redistricting efforts. All I will add further is that the Dems have a rather strong tendency to overplay their hand in political matters and I fully expect them to do that again over the next few years.
We know they can afford to now.
 
Am I misunderstanding what the issue is? Mail in has always been an option, no? And for all the fear of voting fraud, I have to wonder what voting is like where you are? Here, they just get your address and check you off. A lot of places have old machines with no reciept of how you voted.

I guess I'm not seeing where this rampant fraud can occur? As if there's a coordinated, national effort dedicated to fraud. Who is supposedly voting for the dead enmass? And every state has this happening? I'm not convinced. If anything, machines would seem more risky, no?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how voting works, how it occurs, and what goes on in the background. My credentials are I'm a former voting deputy registrar, and Super PAC volunteer, so I understand the process to an extent.

//EDIT// Also to your initial question that mail in has always been an option, absentee voting has always been an option, but in most states direct mail-in voting has not ever been an option. //END EDIT//

It does not take "a coordinated, national effort dedicated to fraud", it is usually county by county and loosely organized if at all, and fraud happens every election to some degree. If you'll go back maybe 5 pages I discussed the fact that mail in voting en-masse (not absentee but mail-in) during a pandemic when all delivery services were already over-capacity. Not only that but people were receiving ballots that did not belong to them, and the deadlines were extended illegally without the backing of state legislatures, swing state legislatures are currently in court, none of those court battles were thrown out. We also saw court orders in michigan and pennsylvania completely disregarded when it came to ballot watching. PA's government also mandated that signature verification not be utilized. So there's only a few reasons for you. Also just remember that the ones in charge of coordinating elections are elected officials themselves.

Here are some easily accessible videos regarding electronic voting.
 
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