Election security - MTDB Posted: Dec 4th, 2020 - 3:50 pm
From BEFORE the election:
July 25 (UPI) -- Despite warnings from former special counsel Robert Mueller about foreign powers intervening in U.S. elections, Republicans again blocked an election security bill from advancing.
Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., objected to the bill that would have required paper ballots and funding for the Election Assistance Commission. It passed the House 225-184 with one Republican voting for it.
"Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law," McConnell said. "Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent."
McConnell added that any election security legislation must be bipartisan. He said it's being pushed by the same Democrats who pushed the "conspiracy theory" that President Donald Trump colluded with Russian agents.
This comes one day after Republicans blocked a trio of bills.
One of the bills would require campaigns to report to federal authorities any attempt by a foreign entity to interfere in U.S. elections. The third would protect emails and electronic devices of senators and staffers from hackers.
The GOP argues that Congress has already responded to election security concerns for the 2020 election.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2019/07/25/Republicans-again-block-election-security-bills-in-the-Senate/6561564090887/
So, from that last paragraph, the GOP felt election security was addressed and no further protections were needed. Trump and the Republicans had 4 years to secure the election and clear sailing in the Senate to do so. How can they now argue that the election wasn't secure? If there was such widespread fraud, as is claimed, why didn't they take action?
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