Clearly, clearly, the cosponsors of this bill have not taken into any consideration the billions, possible trillions, of dollars that this bill would cost.
Rae Oliver Davis
The Public Record
This amendment strikes section 1031. This section would require same-day voter registration for all Federal elections.
Somebody in my district with Illinois election authorities can walk in with something like a Jimmy John's receipt that is a proof of address, without any verification on that same day.
The Secure Elections Act was a bipartisan bill and is the model we should be adopting in the House.
This amendment strikes section 1502. This provision requires the use of paper ballots in Federal elections.
I am concerned that proposals like this will bring us back to the days of Florida during the 2000 election.
This Nation was established to get government closest to the people, not further away from it, and this is exactly what this horror book is doing to the American people.
Creating this program is taking the federalization of elections and campaign financing to a whole new level.
The safe harbor provision would allow platforms like Facebook to walk away from responsibility that they now see that they should have taken before the 2016 elections.
This shows once again that this bill is being rushed through this markup process.
We should absolutely--absolutely--be in favor of increasing access to polls, but without adding the necessary checks and balances to ensure these practices are protected, we are opening the door for fraud in our election system.
There have been no credible reports of fraudulent or otherwise illegal provisions in California.





