There has been heated debate in Congress over H.R. 1, a House bill that overrides state election laws by mandating a number of bad ideas including an automatic right to mail-in voting; the ability to drop ballots off at unwatched ballot boxes; and curtailing the ability of members of both parties to watch the counting of votes.
I oppose this bill because 1) if you need to show a government ID or driver’s license to fly on an airplane, you should need to show one to vote; 2) it gets rid of the secret ballot by encouraging campaign workers to knock on people’s doors, get them to vote with the campaign worker looking on — and with the campaign worker then offering to turn the ballot in; and 3) representatives of both parties ought to be able to watch votes being tallied. I support absentee ballots, but only when a voter gives a reason for needing one.
We chose to deviate from some of these principles in the 2020 national elections because of the COVID-19 epidemic. Now that that epidemic is largely under control, we should return to secret ballots cast at the polls, by voters with a government ID, or by absentee ballot requested in advance (for a good reason) and accompanied by a government ID. Democracy depends on the elimination of voting fraud, which is why H.R. 1 is dangerous and undemocratic legislation.
But, even if this measure were to be mistakenly passed into law, it would apply only to eligibility to vote in congressional elections — not eligibility to vote in presidential or state elections. Congress has no power to regulate those elections.
Congressional power to regulate congressional elections comes from Article I, Section 4, of the Constitution, which says: “The Times, Places, and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be proscribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.” There is nothing in this clause that allows Congress to regulate the selection of presidential electors or of state officers. Any federal law that purports to regulate presidential or state elections would be unconstitutional and, therefore, null and void.
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Lorenzo, Sounds very reasonable and Constitutionally Correct.
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
All we are asking show an ID when voting no mail voting only by absentee ballots and make each vote is counted correctly
Interesting that "Congress can't regulate voting, " but where was/were the challenge(s) when SCOTUS "wrote" Roe, Obergefell and rewrote Title VII. America kept sleeping because tacit approval was visible and ok with R's and conservatives and the talking heads.
Congress and the Presidency can only do what the American Citizens allow them to do. The Constitution is the Law of Our Land, but as with All Our Laws, unless willingly and obediently enforced, lawlessness runs rampant from Our Borders, through Our City Streets and into Our Schools, Public Transportation and every aspect of Our Lives. Continuing until the United States of America is but a Memory in the Footnote of History. It is not what is being done to the American Citizens, it is what the American Citizens are allowing to be done to them.
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
Since when has this corrupt pres and congress abided by the constitution?
Yep! Congressional elections are not Presidential elections, so Congress has no authority to inject its two cents beyond certification, which has offered enough misery in its abuse, Thank You!
Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the de"mock"rats don't care about our Constitution. They will do everything they can to destroy it. If the things they are pushing, I fear there will be civil war in the United States.
I doubt if many have read, studied or care about our Constitution. They care about the dollars that come their way for following globalist orders.
They don't give a d*m they make up their own rules as they go; fire the whole dam bunch and lets start over!!
Agree!
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