Stop the Federal Power Grab of Our Elections
No fewer than five bills to increase federal control over American elections have been filed in the 113th Congress. The Obama administration has appointed a bipartisan presidential commission supposedly for the purpose of streamlining election procedures and reducing the long lines. However, even a cursory review of the bills already proposed reveals that passage of these bills would enable an unconstitutional federal power grab over American elections accompanied by drastic reductions in the safeguards against electoral fraud that remain in at least some of the states.
The bills submitted so far are:
- H.R. 50 – Streamlined and Improved Methods at Polling Locations and Early Voting Act of 2013 (SIMPLE)
- H.R. 280 – Same Day Registration Act of 2013
- H.R. 281 – Voter Access Protection Act of 2013
- H.R. 289 – Value Our Time Elections Act of 2013 (VOTE)
- S. 9 – Clean and Fair Elections Act
