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Voting Reform Controversies
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| Let's talk about a bill in front of Congress right now called HR1. | |
| The For the People Act. | |
| Is that what it's called? | |
| Yes. | |
| What is this bill? | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| For the People Act is the kind of colloquial title that's given to it. | |
| And HR1, just so everybody's tracking, HR1 is House Resolution 1. | |
| And whenever you have leaders in Congress that come together, whichever party has the majority of Congress, they will line up their slate of bills. | |
| This is what they think are the most important things they want to try to get passed that year in Congress. | |
| And so HR1 is the most important thing that they think should be passed. | |
| And really, it's a voting reform bill. | |
| And one of the things that happened in this last presidential election is there was a lot of things changing in states and a lot of times changing in an illegal manner in the sense that under state constitutions and even under the federal constitution, voting laws in states are supposed to change by a legislative process. | |
| The state legislators come together and they vote that in their state they're going to do things a certain way and they will vote on that. | |
| They'll pass it. | |
| That becomes law and then that's the way that state will operate. | |
| In the midst of the COVID shutdown, there was a lot of governors, there was secretaries of state, there were even judges who said, well, the legislative body can't meet and we're just going to take over and we're going to do it. | |
| And so this is where you saw mail out ballots going all over the states. | |
| They extended voting hours and voting days and you could mail in the ballots days after the election was over. | |
| So even on election day, we wouldn't know who won. | |
| And there was a lot of changes that took place. | |
| And so in the midst of that, there was a lot of frustration. | |
| There was a lot of cries of foul play, a lot of curiosities of did fraud take place and really how much fraud took place. | |
| And so in the midst of all those questions, this is where Congress came in and Congress said, well, we're going to just go ahead and officially change things from the federal government perspective. | |
| And ironically, a lot of the things that were the most contentious in those elections were things the federal government is saying they're going to change. | |
| For example, in HR1, they want to do mail-in ballots for every single person in America. | |
| Now, this is important, person in America, not legal U.S. citizen. | |
| They're saying every single person should get a mail ballot, which includes illegal voters in the case of they're not legal registered citizens. | |
| And of course, under the Constitution, it says that to be a eligible voter, you must be 18 years of age. | |
| You must be a legal citizen. | |
| And then you also, one of the side laws added after the Constitution was that you also have to be registered to vote so that we know who you are, where you live. | |
| We can confirm it's you. | |
| And that way you're not voting multiple times from different locations. | |
| Under this HR1, they say that we're not going to follow those basic guidelines anymore. | |
| We're going to mail out to everybody, whether they're a citizen or not. | |
| They want to remove photo ID. | |
| Essentially, what they're doing is they're saying that states no longer get to choose how their elections will be, which under the Constitution, it says that states get to choose the time, place, and manner of the elections. | |
| And so states can do it differently. | |
| Some states, maybe they don't want to have early voting. | |
| Some states, maybe they want to have a month of early voting. | |
| Well, states can do it differently. | |
| But this is part of where the founding fathers and their brilliance, they separated powers, both in the three branches of government, because you have the legislative, the executive, and the judicial, but they also separated power between the federal and the state governments. | |
| And they made sure that the state governments had a lot of power over their own destiny, their own sovereignty. | |
| They could control a lot of things inside their state. | |
| HR1, you now have Democrats in Congress saying that we don't think states should be in charge of their own elections anymore. | |
| And basic election integrity laws like having someone show a voter ID or making sure that they're actually a registered citizen, very simple things is being removed from HR1. | |
| So HR1 is the most important thing to this Democrat Congress, and ultimately it would transform voting in America for the rest of our nation's future if this was actually passed. | |
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Sounds Non-Threatening
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| There's a lot of things in it that the majority of Americans are not in favor of a lot of things that are in it. | |
| But as you do a lot of things in politics, they put a title on it that is for the people. | |
| And so, well, you can't really be against something that's for the people. | |
| They give it a title that sounds very seductive, that sounds very non-threatening, and therefore it's easy for people to embrace. | |
| Most Americans have not read HR1. | |
| They don't know what's in it. | |