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THE WORK AHEAD

It has not yet been thirty days since the 117th Congress began, and not
even ten since the Biden administration was inaugurated. Across the
country newly reshuffled state legislatures are just getting underway,
and yet we can already see how much work there is yet to do.

So, here's what we know right now. We're looking at:

* H.R.1

and S.1

- This is the #1 bill in play right now. H.R. 1 will fundamentally
transform elections; federalizing operations and oversight as never
before. It forces states to adopt things like same-day registration,
establishes mass mail ballots, cripples state voter ID standards, limits
voter roll maintenance, and expands voter harvesting (which, for the
record, we are going to begin referring to as vote trafficking, because
that's what it is. It's the predatory practice of exploiting vulnerable
communities and stealing their votes. Vote Trafficking). UPDATE:
Here's some info on the Senate partner bill S.1. Still haven't seen
the full bill language as filed, but the Senate Democrats have posted
this outline
.

* S.51

and H.R.51

- Senate and House versions of the Washington, D.C. Statehood Admission
Act ... to make Washington, DC a state. (it's rare that Senate and House
bill numbers match, but this bill would make DC the 51st state, so they
matched the numbers for symbolic effect...)

* S.136
 
and H.R.237

- Senate and House versions of a "Vote at Home" Act(s) both to amend the
Help America Vote Act of 2002 to allow all eligible voters to vote by
mail in Federal elections, standardize ballot dropboxes, amend the
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to provide for automatic voter
registration.  The National Vote at Home Institute
has been working these bills hard on the Hill
(and they started long before COVID...like all these bills, what's in
them has been a long time in the making...)

* H.J.Res.14

- Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to
abolish the electoral college and to provide for the direct election of
the President and Vice President of the United States (aka National
Popular Vote aka mob rule)

On the radar from the 116th and almost sure to reappear in the 117th...
* Last session's H.R. 4

andS.4263
,
the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which hasn't been
reintroduced in the 117th yet, but it most assuredly will. Here's a take
on the bill from the Human Rights Campaign
,
discussing their position that Voter ID is a form of suppression to the
LGBTQ community because transgender voters do not have ID that
accurately reflects their gender (yes, you read that correctly).News
Flash: gender isn't a qualification to vote. Voter ID presents no
suppressive intent to the transgender, or any other, community. The U.S.
is the only industrialized country in the world that does not require a
standardized form of Voter ID.

* Last session's H.R.4901

- Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act...making Puerto Rico a state, too.

There are other bills, like H.R. 322
,  a
bill put forward by Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, to amend
the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote
Act of 2002 to promote integrity in voter registration, the casting of
ballots,  the tabulation of ballots in elections for Federal office,
and other integrity-focused reforms.  It is highly unlikely anything
like this would pass, but the drafting of these bills is important
because it keeps aglow an ember of the election integrity debate that
must occur if we are to find our way back to free and fair elections.

We will work hard to keep TTVers apprised of these and other bills, but
for those who are interested, check out Congress.gov
and set up bill trackings so they can see the
bills, track changes, and get familiar with the landscape.  Download
the bills as PDFs, word search them, ask your representatives about
them, ask us .  And check out what's
happening with election reform in your own state
. 

Meanwhile, we are still working on opportunities to open up research
projects, open source what we're finding and crowdsource solutions,
while still fighting in court to stop the intimidation tactics of Stacy
Abrams' Fair Fight Action (see True the Vote v. Fair Fight Action
)
and protect every citizen's right to question their government without
fear of retribution.

Stay the course, fellow patriot.  We are in this together.

Catherine Engelbrecht

Founder, True the Vote

TTV NEWS

George Stephanopoulos and Sen. Rand Paul Spar Over Election Integrity

On the January 24th episode of ABC's This Week, host George
Stephanopoulos spoke with guest Sen. Rand Paul about the results of the
2020 presidential election. The two engaged in a heated discussion, with
the host demanding the Senator accede to a statement as being fact, and
the Senator repeatedly asserting that such a demand was designed to
impugn his character and that of everyone who believes it is important
to root out fraud or abuse that may have taken place.

In the clip below, the two sides of the argument seem on the surface to
be about whether or not the 2020 election was "stolen" by means of fraud
or abuse.

That is not, however, the important point in the video, which you can
watch...
  

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