After failing to orchestrate a federal takeover of state election administration two years ago, Democrats are back with their newest strategy to seize control of America’s electoral process.
In blue state legislatures, leftists are working to advance election bills that seek to dramatically overhaul state elections by enshrining Democrat-backed voting practices into law. The widespread effort is an attempt to implement national Democrats’ HR 1 policies in states across the country.
Deceptively labeled the “For the People Act,” HR 1 was a bill supported by congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden during the early months of 2021. The legislation was a concentrated bid by Democrats to cement many of the unsecure practices used throughout the 2020 election into federal law and allow the federal government to oversee and control the electoral process.
The measure’s many changes to election administration include provisions effectively banning voter ID requirements, mandating universal mail-in balloting, and legalizing widespread use of ballot drop boxes, among others. The bill furthermore violates core provisions of the Constitution, such as the Elections Clause of Article I and the Electors Clause of Article II, which stipulate that the states, not the federal government, are tasked with administering and overseeing elections.
While House Democrats managed to pass HR 1, Senate Republicans effectively killed the measure once it arrived in the upper chamber. In typical hyperbolic fashion, Biden — legacy media’s so-called “unifer-in-chief” — proceeded to accuse the Senate GOP of supporting a “Jim Crow era” of voter suppression for opposing
