The initiative, approved practically within the party lines with 220 votes in favor of the Democrats and 210 against the Republicans, series the mayor reforms the electoral legislation of the state in at least one generation and opened a new front in the intense national debate over elections.
The resolution it touches practically all aspects of the elections process and planted significant advances in the protection of the federal vote from the 1960s, contrary to the intentions of the Republican Party to restrict access to the ballot boxes.
The project of ley, titled HR 1 the manipulation of a circumcision elections to limit on the part of a party with the end to get more votes (what is known in the political world as ‘Gerrymandering’), eliminaría obstáculos para votar y give transparency to an opaque campaign financing system which allows donors to finance anonymously political causes of their preference.
Además, plantea new national requisites that debilitate restrictive states of identification of voters, imposes the automatic voter register, amplia the anticipated vote and by correct, defaults the eviction of the lists of voters and restores the right to vote of exdelincuentes, cambios que, in theory, aumentarían the participation of voters, especially of minor race .
In this way, the Democrats intend to free up the efforts of the Republicans in the state chambers of all the countries to promote new barriers to the vote, thus consolidating the power of this party.
Congressman John Sarbanes, who was one of those who read the law’s approval, told CNN that the norm was urgent, all the more so than the Republican Party’s legislators in the country’s state chambers “to retrieve access a las urnas “.
“All these things are designed to restore the people of the people in democracy at a time when we can have our own proposals that these things are very unstable”, says Sarbanes.
Difficult to treat in Senado
The initiative, which is backed by the support of President Joe Biden, will be launched in the Senate donde 60 votes are required for its approval.
The leader of the Republicans in the Camera Alta, Mitch McConnell, is the first opposition to support the project in the Senate. “The Democrats of the House of Representatives can not take their majority, which the voters want to reduce, and use it to move to the states and localities to prevent them from being more closely linked to the future”.
“Everything is in play. We need to win this career, this is a lie”, signaled on his part the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Nancy Pelosi.
Meanwhile, the leader of the Democratic Mayor of the Chamber of Deputies, Steny Hoyer, also said to the periodicals: “We believe that HR 1 should approve of the Republican state legislators, who are concerned about their losses, are in their proposals in the país, are willing to redeem their efforts to make it difficult for the people to vote “.
On the Capitol’s escalations, ahead of the vote, a group of Democrat representatives declared that “in all countries there are more than 200 projects to be voted on.”
Who defies the restrictions on the vote that they have to avoid electoral fraud. The changes that are intended to introduce the Republican-dominated states in exactly the opposite direction to the proposed by the House of Representatives: explain the voting identities of the voters, specify the correct vote early and limit the action of organizations that estimate to vote.
The changes in the leagues are being acknowledged since Donald Trump lost the elections in November and resigned to accept the result, denouncing without trial a massive fraud.
This March, the Supreme Court, as well as the Conservative mayor, signaled that it was likely to confirm Arizona’s restrictive electoral media and potentially record more than Derecho’s Ley de Vote of 1965.
