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  • Senate GOP blocks three election security bills

    From The sHill


    Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democrats to unanimously pass three election security-related bills Tuesday, marking the latest attempt to clear legislation ahead of the November elections

    Democrats tried to get consent to pass two bills that require campaigns to alert the FBI and Federal Election Commission (FEC) about foreign offers of assistance, as well as legislation to provide more election funding and ban voting machines from being connected to the internet.


    Is there a good a reason to block any bill which seeks to make sure our elections are protected and only influenced by Americans? If the bills were flawed why won't the Republicans offer up an alternative implementation?

  • #2
    A dispute over the Secure Elections Act boiled down to whether Congress should compel more states to use paper-based audits — a safeguard that election integrity advocates say would help ensure vote tallies weren't tampered with or altered.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/...us-blow-746855
    The Virginia Democrat said she and others largely failed to convince Republicans to cosponsor election security bills earlier because the legislation was wrapped into the broader bill, H.R. 1, which contained a raft of liberal policies like expanding voting rights
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...ueller-1369744
    Why does demi bother, maybe you think 'Obamacare' means that Obama cares.
    Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
      Why does demi bother, maybe you think 'Obamacare' means that Obama cares.
      But the bills have such nice, friendly sounding names!
      Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
      But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
      Than a fool in the eyes of God


      From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
        Democrats tried to get consent to pass two bills that require campaigns to alert the FBI and Federal Election Commission (FEC) about foreign offers of assistance
        Trump:
        "I think you might want to listen, there isn't anything wrong with listening," Trump continued. "If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] ‘we have information on your opponent' -- oh, I think I'd want to hear it."... "It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said...

        "Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,' do you call the FBI?" Trump responded.

        "I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole life I've ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don't call the FBI."

        In Trump's mob background, snitches get stitches. You don't call the FBI.

        Senate Republicans apparently agree.
        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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        • #5
          Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
          From The sHill


          Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democrats to unanimously pass three election security-related bills Tuesday, marking the latest attempt to clear legislation ahead of the November elections

          Democrats tried to get consent to pass two bills that require campaigns to alert the FBI and Federal Election Commission (FEC) about foreign offers of assistance, as well as legislation to provide more election funding and ban voting machines from being connected to the internet.


          Is there a good a reason to block any bill which seeks to make sure our elections are protected and only influenced by Americans? If the bills were flawed why won't the Republicans offer up an alternative implementation?
          Oh yeah - they are on a roll now. Gotta make sure the Ruskie's aren't hampered in their efforts to help get Trump back for a second term ...
          My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

          If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

          This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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          • #6
            Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
            Oh yeah - they are on a roll now. Gotta make sure the Ruskie's aren't hampered in their efforts to help get Trump back for a second term ...
            I see you've moved on to self-parody.
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
              Trump:
              "I think you might want to listen, there isn't anything wrong with listening," Trump continued. "If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] ‘we have information on your opponent' -- oh, I think I'd want to hear it."... "It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said...

              "Somebody comes up and says, ‘hey, I have information on your opponent,' do you call the FBI?" Trump responded.

              "I'll tell you what, I've seen a lot of things over my life. I don't think in my whole life I've ever called the FBI. In my whole life. You don't call the FBI."

              In Trump's mob background, snitches get stitches. You don't call the FBI.

              Senate Republicans apparently agree.
              And then there's the Democrats who literally paid a foreign operative to dig up dirt on a political opponent, write a fictional "dossier" that was used as evidence for an illegal spy operation, and launched one of the biggest nothing-burger witch hunts in US history

              But you're right, let's all focus on what Trump said in response to a merely hypothetical question while ignoring what the Democrats actually do.
              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
              Than a fool in the eyes of God


              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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              • #8
                Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                Why does demi bother, maybe you think 'Obamacare' means that Obama cares.
                For one thing the name is the ACA, which is obviously a concern of democrats and Obama who got it passed without any republican support. Obamacare is the name the republicans gave it, because as they made obvious about themselves, sociopaths really don't care about healthcare any more than they care about democracy and free elections.
                Last edited by JimL; 02-12-2020, 04:42 PM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                  I see you've moved on to self-parody.
                  Unfortunately, that is not a logical conclusion given the data or my post. It's rather clear that the Republicans believe that efforts to prevent the possibility of an internet connection allowing the potential for hackers to change voting results is not in their best interests. Now who's hackers would be interested in hacking voting machines in a way that the Republicans would not want interfered with .... hmmm
                  Last edited by oxmixmudd; 02-12-2020, 05:42 PM.
                  My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

                  If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

                  This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
                    Unfortunately, that is not a logical conclusion given the data or my post. It's rather clear that the Republicans believe that efforts to prevent the possibility of an internet connection allowing the potential for hackers to change voting results is not in their best interests. Now who's hackers would be interested in hacking voting machines in a way that the Republicans would not want interfered with .... hmmm


                    I can't take you seriously!
                    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                    Than a fool in the eyes of God


                    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                      From The sHill


                      Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democrats to unanimously pass three election security-related bills Tuesday, marking the latest attempt to clear legislation ahead of the November elections

                      Democrats tried to get consent to pass two bills that require campaigns to alert the FBI and Federal Election Commission (FEC) about foreign offers of assistance, as well as legislation to provide more election funding and ban voting machines from being connected to the internet.


                      Is there a good a reason to block any bill which seeks to make sure our elections are protected and only influenced by Americans? If the bills were flawed why won't the Republicans offer up an alternative implementation?
                      Because the election process we have now is fine. There are no Russian boogiemen influencing US voters on a mass scale; that's a false narrative, propagated by intelligence (the same intelligence that lied about WMDs in Iraq) to justify their purpose and their insane federal budgets.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post


                        I can't take you seriously!
                        Well of course not. If what I'm saying is even close to the truth then you've been supporting with abandon one of the most corrupt administrations to ever occupy the oval office. That would not be a comfortable place to be.
                        My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

                        If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

                        This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by seanD View Post
                          Because the election process we have now is fine. There are no Russian boogiemen influencing US voters on a mass scale; that's a false narrative, propagated by intelligence (the same intelligence that lied about WMDs in Iraq) to justify their purpose and their insane federal budgets.
                          Trump's false narrative about the intelligence community has found fertile ground in you I see.
                          My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism. James 2:1

                          If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not  bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is worthless James 1:26

                          This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; James 1:19

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
                            Trump's false narrative about the intelligence community has found fertile ground in you I see.
                            Shad up, TDS stooge.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
                              Well of course not. If what I'm saying is even close to the truth then you've been supporting with abandon one of the most corrupt administrations to ever occupy the oval office. That would not be a comfortable place to be.
                              Spoken like a true conspiracy theory nutter!
                              Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
                              But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
                              Than a fool in the eyes of God


                              From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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