As with the Equality Act, this isn’t the first time House Democrats have passed this.
Vox:
“House Democrats have passed HR 1, their signature anti-corruption and voting rights reform bill, for the second time in two years. But even though their party now holds the majority in the Senate, the bill has a tough road ahead of it.
As the numeral suggests, HR 1 and its Senate component S 1 — also known as the For the People Act — are Democrats’ first legislative priority. The sweeping democracy reform bill has been top of the list since House Democrats first took back the majority in the 2018 midterms and immediately set out to expand voting rights and curb the influence of money in politics. …
Even though Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have repeatedly said they won’t get rid of the Senate filibuster, some of their Democratic colleagues are hopeful they might change their minds if the party’s agenda meets repeated opposition from Republicans.
“You bring it to the floor a few times and you let them obstruct it and you see what effect bad-faith obstruction has on some members’ views about the filibuster,” Sen. Whitehouse told reporters recently. “It’s one thing to say, ‘I don’t want to get rid of the filibuster’; it’s another thing after you’ve met repeated bad-faith obstruction to say, ‘Okay, this is getting out of hand.” …”
“Twenty Republican state attorneys general signed a letter denouncing the House Democrats’ controversial election reform bill as unconstitutional for a slew of reasons just hours before the measure was expected to be voted on.
The letter — led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita — tore into H.R. 1, the “For the People Act,” a massive election reform bill and a leading priority for House Democrats this Congress.
“This monstrosity of a bill betrays the Constitution, dangerously federalizes state elections, and undermines the integrity of the ballot box,” Rokita said in a statement to Fox News. “As a former chief election officer, and now an Attorney General, I know this would be a disaster for election integrity and confidence in the processes that have been developed over time to instill confidence in the idea of ‘one person, one vote.’” …”
It now heads to the Senate where it will join the upcoming pile up behind the Equality Act and other things which will also go nowhere. The Democratic Party is a coalition of woke upper middle class professionals and working class voters and the former are too culturally toxic in rural America for anything the latter supports to ever pass the Senate. They don’t even have the votes to pass popular things like raising the minimum wage and have to use budget reconciliation to pass $1,400 checks!
“also known as the For the People Act.”
Which people?
Republican votes are counted on election day. Democrat votes are counted every day until they win.
That’s what this bill does. It helps make it easier for the usual suspects to steal elections.
Just as “immigration reform” really means open the floodgates wider.
Idk. In theory, HR 1 isn’t bad.
It’s just priorities