First step in making the cheating that was done in the Swing States easily done on a National Scale.
Now on to the Senate !
On Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the “For the People” Act, which federalizes state election law and undermines key safeguards such as voter ID.
The bill passed 220-210, with every Republican voting against it (and two not voting) and every Democrat but one voting for it.
This kind of rank partisanship on an elections bill should worry Americans, and so should the specifics of what the bill does.
H.R. 1 requires states to allow any eligible voter to vote by mail in federal elections, a practice that is inherently less secure than in-person voting. The bill also requires states to allow any eligible voter to use ballot drop-boxes of the kind that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) financed in the 2020 election, likely driving up turnout in blue areas. H.R. 1 also mandates that states accept ballots that arrive in the mail up to 10 days after Election Day, so long as they had been postmarked on or before Election Day, echoing a controversial practice in Pennsylvania in 2020.
The bill creates a nationwide automatic voter registration program, which would likely result in double-registrations and the registration of non-citizens. In fact, H.R. 1 explicitly exempts from prosecution people who are “not eligible to vote in elections for Federal office but [were] automatically registered to vote” (Sec. 1015).
Trump probably just underestimated the fraud that would happen, and assumed that any fraud that did happen would be dealt with in the courts like it should've been. He did beat the fraud in 2016, but this time nobody seemed to care/do anything about the huge amounts of obvious fraud, and anybody who speaks out about it is now a conspiracy theorist trying to steal the election.
No, it's worse than that. Everyone Trump believed would help him prevent the fraud turned out to be a backstabbing traitor. His own administration was undermining him, his VP refused to block fraudulent electors, and his SCOTUS judges refused to take the cases... He probably DID have what he thought was a solid plan to combat the Democrats' fuckery, but everyone around him failed to enact it.
The entire federal government is corrupt.
Good point. He underestimated how traitorous EVERYONE in government is. It IS hard to wrap your head around that. Very depressing. I see no fix for this either.