Among several flawed — and\nultimately fatal — features in the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 massive\nvoter \u201creform\u201d bill are provisions mandating universal automatic voter registration\nand Election Day sign-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cFor the People Act of 2019<\/a>,\u201d passed by Democrats on a 234-193 vote last week, is going nowhere because the Republican-led Senate will not take it up.\u00a0“This sprawling 622-page doorstop is never going to become law,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the problematic provisions are steadily making their way\ninto state laws, effectively opening voting booths to noncitizens and even\nillegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pushed by progressive groups and credulous commentators, automatic voter registration<\/a> (AVR) and Election Day registration<\/a> are hailed as tools to \u201cstrengthen democracy.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, such\nmeasures threaten to make a mockery of democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By \u201cstreamlining\u201d the voter registration process \u2013 the Brennan Center for Justice<\/a> cautions that the steps to ensure proper voter verification and identification are shortened, or skipped altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe provisions would literally make it illegal\nto prevent illegal voters from voting. We shouldn\u2019t be making it a crime\nfor election officials to do their job, which is to prevent people who have no\nlegal right to vote from voting illegally,\u201d said Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ironically, Democrats tout their H.R. 1\nlegislation as an effort to restrict foreign influence on elections. The bill imposes\nnew limits on political spending by companies with at least a 5\npercent foreign government owner or companies with at least a 20 percent\nforeign national owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So how about foreign\nnationals casting ballots in U.S. elections and cancelling out votes of\nAmerican citizens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe\nuniversal automatic voter registration portion of H.R. 1 is more than a landmine\nfor noncitizen voter registration risks \u2014 it\u2019s a black hole. Noncitizens will\nbe registered under H.R. 1,\u201d warned Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the\nnonpartisan Public Interest Law Foundation (PILF), which litigates\nelection-integrity issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PILF has issued multiple reports<\/a> detailing how AVR (\u201cMotor Voter\u201d) programs in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Georgia, New York and Michigan enabled ineligible noncitizens to register to vote and, in some case, cast ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FAIR<\/a> last year reported that legal and illegal aliens are fueling vote fraud in Texas. In North Carolina<\/a>, 19 foreign nationals were charged with illegally voting <\/p>\n\n\n\n Loose\nvoter-registration laws, lax verification and poor list maintenance have\nallowed countless aliens onto voter rolls. Some jurisdictions don\u2019t even make a\npretense of enforcement. San Francisco, Calif., and Takoma Park, Md., openly\npermit illegal aliens to vote in local elections. Does anyone believe it will\nend there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n McConnell and\nSenate Republicans can posture like they stopped electoral mischief cold by\nsidetracking H.R. 1. If only. As the 2020 campaign gathers steam, watch for\nthings to heat up and for this nation\u2019s voting lists to enroll more noncitizens,\nstate by state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Among several flawed — and ultimately fatal — features in the U.S. House of Representatives\u2019 massive voter \u201creform\u201d bill are provisions mandating universal automatic voter registration and Election Day sign-ups. The \u201cFor the People Act of 2019,\u201d passed by Democrats on a 234-193 vote last week, is going nowhere because the Republican-led Senate will not<\/p>\n