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**JULY 20, 2021**

Meyerson on TAP

GOP Congressmen Oppose Remote Voting, Except for Themselves

As anyone who follows American politics even at a great distance knows,
Republicans have gone to war against mail voting, early voting, and
anything other than
showing-up-at-the-polls-on-Election-Day-to-vote-Republican voting.

There's only one category of voter that Republican members of Congress
exempt from their condemnation of long-distance voting: themselves.

Large numbers of Republican House members frequently avail themselves of
the rule, adopted at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, that permits
members of Congress to cast votes on issues before the House from just
about anywhere. According to a New York Times report
,
many GOP lawmakers have voted remotely, by proxy, even when the pandemic
has had nothing to do with it.

In late June, some Trumpian diehards cast their votes from the
U.S.-Mexico border, to which they'd accompanied Trump on an important
propaganda mission. In February, a dozen of their GOP colleagues,
including Devin Nunes and Matt Gaetz, phoned in their votes from
Florida, where they were deliberating weighty matters at the annual CPAC
conference.

Defenders of these errant electeds might argue that this form of remote
voting doesn't raise suspicions of voter fraud. (Of course, as proven
incidents of fraudulent mail voting in actual elections are effectively
nonexistent, they shouldn't raise such suspicions, either.) We can
grant these defenders the courtesy of presuming that the votes from
"Matt Gaetz" aren't actually cast by teenage girls. But as almost
all of these wandering Republicans voted to fraudulently overturn the
electoral verdicts of Arizona and Pennsylvania voters when the issue
came before Congress on January 6, they are all in a
high-propensity-for-voter-fraud pool themselves.

Nonetheless, their own remote voting doesn't stop the Republicans from
denying that right to anybody else, particularly if those anybodies
might vote Democratic.

These guys are giving "double standards" a bad name.

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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