Senate to Vote on Democrats' Latest Election Reform Bill Despite GOP Opposition

No!

Elections are integral to democracy. Republicans don't even understand the system they are to represent.

No... The government will be shrunk by 70%, term limits, military should take over Supreme court duties. IRS eliminated and flat tax. Central Bank wiped out and non-government crypto currency in place. Tech companies toppled and all revenues support Social Security and health care, big pharma torn down never to come back. Lefties who do not sign allegiance to the USA Constitution and the defense of this country kicked out with the transgenders, BLM, Antifa.. End FBI and rebuild, End complete the CIA. Term limits Only Social Security for politicians No wealth increases for politicians Audits of all politicians for insider trading and book deals - payoffs. Dump the WHO, CDC and IRS Flat tax No immunity for politicians No school boards No teachers who do not teach just the basics or jailed Run the country like a business Go back to Gold and Silver status Its coming...

Voting is a fundamental right for citizens. In Pennsylvania as I am completing my absentee ballot I realize that the changes made in not counting ballots received after November 2 will deny the votes of many in Pennsylvania. Also Election Day should be a national day off or state day off so people can do their civic duty. We need election reform that helps more people to vote and requires candidates to campaign on issues of importance and articulate their strategies, not restrict or demonize.

When the midterms roll around I am not voting Dem I am voting Republican. Enough games! Enough bullshit! I

Every legal citizen should, according to the constitution be allowed to vote. NO jerrymandering to keep blacks, browns and poor from voting.

It’s a disgrace that this watered-down voting rights bill could not get 10 Republicans to vote to let it move forward and be debated. If Republicans are so afraid to allow more qualified voters to vote they can eventually vote against the bill, but to filibuster the bill so it can’t even be debated is cynical and un-democratic. The last time The Voting Rights bill came up for renewal it was passed 98-0. This shows how far out of touch with ordinary Americans the Republican Party has moved under Trump. Voting day as a national holiday, standardizing the length of time early voting is allowed, standardizing rules for mail-in ballots - all of these issues are addressed in this bill. All have been proven to be safe and secure ways to make it easier to vote. Saying over and over again that there was fraud in the last election, while never producing any credible proof, and while every federal judge that looked at one of the 61 cases brought before the court agreed there was no credible fraud, is an attempt to dismantle our democracy. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves.

Another grab for power.. Democrats are leaving the Dem party... How about that!!!! How many are signing up for being Dems... Audits are reinforcing every day the steal of the 2020 election. Joebamapedo and his crime family are exposed along with much more.. Only the few who start talking may see leniency, but only a few.. Isn't life in prison better than Nuremberg outcomes?? Ships moving to Florida to be unloaded while Joebamapedo fly illegals all over the country.. We know, we see, we the people are pissed off. How are those Democrat cities working out for you?? Cops will move to Free states and let your cities burn. I feel bad for those who cannot leave and they will need to act to change the voting actions or be dominated by crime and terror. Great work Dems and Rhinos

THERE WAS NO VOTER FRAUD OF ANY IMPORT IN THE LAST ELECTION. This was the conclusion reached by the trumps own DOJ, the FBI and the country’s civil cyber command. This was found to be true by numerous hand recounts, audits of voter ballots and machine tabulations. Many of the trump’s attorneys that pushed the fraud claim were referred for disbarment for misusing the courts to give credence to claims of fraud for which they could not produce an iota of evidence to support. Other legal firms refused to take these claims to the courts after getting their wrists slapped for legal ethical violations for wasting the courts time on frivolous pursuits. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF VOTER FRAUD THAT THE LAWYERS OR ANYONE ELSE COULD PRODUCE TO SUPPORT THEIR CLAIMS AND SEVERAL WERE REFERRED FOR LEGAL ETHICAL SANCTIONING AND DISBARMENT. … … … People claim that there was fraud yet cannot produce any evidence that there was any. If you continue to spread this unsubstantiated, unfounded and factually non existent fraud, you are lying to others just as much as those that are lying to you and risking our democracy. Just because an unfounded claim of voter fraud, claim of voter fraud, claim of voter fraud, is repeated many times and you accept this conclusion does not make it true. It may agree with and support your unconscious biases, but it is still dangerous to spread this manure to others as some kind of established fact. For those that will recite trump fantasies or the ramblings of right wing entertainment news sources, don’t bother unless you can prove that these assertions are true. Anecdotal ‘feeling’ comments are not proof nor are they a legal basis (due cause) to further investigate - they are just an echoed restatement of the biases propagated by others that you might like to be true.

Yes the Republicans should advance the voting rights bill. You want to bet that they will or if they do, that they will vote to pass it? The only reason that voting rights is being voted on now is due to the coordinated attack on voting rights being coordinated by the RNC and funded by dark money. … … … Hell, many months ago, major banks made $10 Million contributions each to fund a committee to find even better ways to gerrymander States with Republican legislatures (Citi Bank was the only one whose name got leaked). The Koch brothers fund has been directed to fund ways to limit the ability of ‘less desirable’ voters to successfully cast a vote and have that vote be accurately counted. The Republican Faction’s operations to win elections at any cost and their allegiance to the trump because it was and they think still is, a ‘winning’ tactic has become much more visible. Instead of becoming honorable legislators who could ‘win’ with actual legislation, they would rather ‘win’ by making it hard for people to vote if they are in a demographic that tends to vote Democratic. … … … The last time that voting rights came up for an honest vote it was almost unanimously passed with full non-partisan support. The only thing that has changed this time is the Republican Faction’s desire to ‘win’ by any means possible because the electorate is getting more aware and very likely to vote to expunge this cancer of a corrupted political faction out of political existence, if everyone’s votes will actually still count. … … … Do not be fooled by empty promises and let’s vote to expunge this disease from our body politic.

It sounds like the Republican Party is firm on their opposition to free and fair elections for all citizens. I guess the only way they can continue their agenda of favoring the wealthy and corporations over the middle and working classes, and of ignoring the rights of women and minorities, is by suppressing the vote. They certainly aren't going to start listening to the majority of the country any time soon. That's why Pat Toomey is quitting; he refuses to serve the people and doesn't think he'd win re-election without Trump on the ballot.

Try it again with benefit of carve out of filibuster. Remember, this was Manchin’s Bill. He converted not one of the Republicans. Tell him that…out loud and to his face.

Yes, we need to have Federal standards for voting rights as Republicans have worked hard to take away voting rights from American citizens!

Another waste of time on something clearly unconstitutional. Democrats need to stop working so hard to destroy the nation, the Constitution, and our society.

As expected, it did not pass, but Leader Schumer is still trying. He is making a procedural move.

It’s absolutely incredible to me that now Mitch McConnell is blaming all the problems of the Republican Party is having on Donald Trump! Blaming Donald Trump! McConnell you made Donald Trump! Then you help keep that idiot in power! You sat on your dinosaur ass and watched 500,000 Americans die watched the capital be assaulted by crazy Republicans and did nothing it’s just as much your fault McConnell and Lindsey Graham’s as trumps! Republican party is no longer in a race for the bottom they are at the bottom. They created this mess they refused to admit they created this mess and all these jackasses including Marco Rubio Ted Cruz and an idiot governor of Florida are all helping to destroy this country.

So, Manchin and Sinema (who has voted with her party at most 75% of the time) claim that bills’ provisions should be watered down and nibbled into irrelevance if they don’t have bipartisan input because bipartisanship is important and possible. The version of the voting rights bill Schumer wants to bring to the Senate floor has been watered down had bipartisan input, but …. “Manchin, D-W.Va., refused to endorse a more comprehensive reform effort by his caucus in June, saying it lacked bipartisan input and encroached too far on state's rights to run elections. But after months of trying to corral GOP support, Manchin has found none. The vote on Wednesday is to start debate on the measure, a move that would require 10 Republicans to vote with all Democrats. But no Republican is expected to support the revised bill.” Mitt Romney says he won’t support it - as do the Republicans as a whole - because it’s “federalizing” election law and encroaching on state rights. This argument is misleading and inaccurate, a deliberate obscuring of facts, the concept of democracy, and the role of Congress in upholding voters’ rights under the Constitution (as I see it after reading the Constitution). First, Congress’ right to intervene in state election laws when those laws inhibit or erase voters’ right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The founders clearly intended Congress to be the protector of the democratic pillar of our society that is majority rule and each citizen’s right to vote. Recently passed election laws or those that are moving through states as well as gerrymandering by each party erode both. In fact, the filibuster itself could be seen as operating against democracy in the partisanship occurring now which allows a minority in the Senate that represents less than half of our population can kill any legislation the Senate minority party doesn’t like. That Manchin and Sinema who represent just 2 states hold such disproportionate power in this partisan government due to partisanship and the filibuster also is contrary to the democratic functioning of our government, in my opinion. John Cornyn, who has learned to lie and distort from the likes of Mitch McConnell and Trump - and of whom we should be able to expect better since he’s a former federal judge - stated: "The only thing this proposal would have done for the people…would be to help make sure that the outcome of virtually every future election meant that Democrats win and Republicans lose. Thus, Republicans would be relegated to a permanent minority status. That was the goal," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, charged in a Tuesday floor speech. "If this bill weren't so dangerous, it would have been laughable." Interestingly, ensuring that the “outcome of every future election” meant that REPUBLICANS win and DEMOCRATS lose is what Republican members of Congress, state legislators, Republican party operatives have expressly and implicitly stated is the purpose of the new state election laws passed by - if my memory serves - 27 states and of the gerrymandered maps currently under development or on the verge of being passed by states whose legislatures are controlled by Republican lawmakers. In fact, the watered down voters rights bill based on bipartisan input via Manchin: “The Democrats' new bill still encompasses sweeping election law changes, including voter ID requirements, expanded early voting, making Election Day a national holiday, banning partisan gerrymandering, and implementing election security and campaign finance measures. Among the provisions dropped or changed since June is the automatic mailing of ballots. Under the new measure, any voter may request a mail-in ballot but they are not sent out automatically. The legislation will continue to allow voter roll purges but requires changes to be "done on the basis of reliable and objective evidence" and prohibits the use of returned mail sent by third parties to remove voters.” The bill would also no longer implement public financing of presidential and congressional elections. Still, there are a number of election security provisions, including mandatory, nationwide use of machines that deliver paper ballots.” Unfortunately, in my opinion, the legislation will die sacrificed on the altar of nonexistent bipartisanship because Sinema and Manchin refuse to support reforming or eliminating the filibuster. That and their opposition to increasing any tax on corporations and the wealthy, their opposition to reigning in drug companies, and their opposition to effective regulation or incentivization for the fossil fuel industry to transition for addressing climate change is the reason Republican party donors are donating to then, holding fundraisers for them, and praising them. Manchin at least talks about his reasoning that his support of fossil fuels because of the industry’s importance to the economy of West Virginia, although that’s arguable because that industry represents less than 7% of that economy is from fossil fuels. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senate-republicans-expected-defeat-voting-rights-reform-bill/story?id=80643465

Any attempt to pass this bill is a nail in their coffin

This is nonsense partisanship attempting to overrule sensible measures that all Western representative governments use to make sure voter fraud is not possible.

If it isn’t bipartisan , it shouldn’t be law