Eyes On | Senate S1 Trojan Horse Bill
by Dan Gelernter, True the Vote
Two bills, one plan.
Senate bill S1 is designed to invalidate state-level voter ID, signature matching, and anti-ballot harvesting laws and hand control of elections over to the federal government. This bill, whose equivalent has already been passed out of the House on a party-line vote, is "the most radical legislation the Senate has considered in the nine years I've been here," according to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and “the most dangerous legislation pending before the United States Congress.”
S1 is also a trojan horse, designed to be so radical that it makes other dangerous election laws look moderate by comparison. The plan is working: NBC reported this week that Senators Machin (D-WV) and Murkowski (R-AK) have asked Congress to reintroduce the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would be almost as destructive as S1: It would strip states of their right to control their own election integrity laws, requiring that state laws receive “pre-clearance” from the Department of Justice.
For proponents of vote fraud, this is a win-win situation: Either they get S1, or they get the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. In either case, states lose their ability to protect voters from fraud and abuse, and elections become a rubber-stamp for the federal bureaucracy. We must act now to stop this legislation...
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