{"id":389615,"date":"2022-01-04T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dems-would-discredit-democracy-by-using-capitol-riot-to-nationalize-elections\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:08:15","slug":"dems-would-discredit-democracy-by-using-capitol-riot-to-nationalize-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dems-would-discredit-democracy-by-using-capitol-riot-to-nationalize-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dems would discredit democracy by using Capitol riot to nationalize elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Dems would discredit democracy by using Capitol riot to nationalize elections<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the US Capitol and rampaged for a few hours before order was restored.<\/p>\n<p>This was a disgraceful spectacle that shouldn\u2019t be repeated, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer knows just what is needed to respond to the moment \u2014 passing every progressive voting-related priority that can possibly be jammed through the Senate on an extremely narrow, partisan vote.<\/p>\n<p>The defense of our democracy, Schumer maintains, demands nothing less.<\/p>\n<p>The latest pitch for the Democratic voting agenda is more cynical and detached from reality than ever. We are to believe that the only way to counteract the furies unleashed on Jan. 6 is by imposing same-day voter registration and no-excuse mail voting on the states, ending partisan gerrymandering and requiring the counting of ballots that arrive up to seven days after Election Day, among other provisions completely irrelevant to events that day or afterward.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re thinking that Democrats supported all this on Jan. 5 of last year and still supported it on Jan. 7, you\u2019re correct.<\/p>\n<p>Their agenda has as much to do with Jan. 6 as an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriations bill or the naming of a post office.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been pushing to eliminate the filibuster in order to get progressive voting laws passed.\" class=\"wp-image-20702849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/schumer.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been pushing to eliminate the filibuster in order to get progressive voting laws passed.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Democratic drive to nationalize our elections has always been a sweepingly radical step in search of an alleged crisis to address. When a version was first introduced a few years ago, it was sold as addressing \u201cthe vile voter suppression practices\u201d of the GOP, in the words of The New York Times. The big lie of the time was that the Georgia gubernatorial campaign of Stacey Abrams in 2018 was undone by such practices. <\/p>\n<p>Now the justification is the Capitol riot and subsequent GOP state-level voting changes that have been portrayed, falsely, as the return of Jim Crow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In reality, voting has never been easier, and voters have never had so many options for how to participate in elections \u2014 whether early in-person voting, traditional same-day voting or mail-in voting. There are partisan disputes about how to strike a balance between convenience and security, but there is no reason that these differences can\u2019t be debated at the state level, with the balance struck differently depending on the policy preferences of elected officials in each state.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/CAPITOL-BREACH-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The Jan. 6 riot has nothing to do with any of the &quot;voting rights&quot; bills favored by the Democrats.\" class=\"wp-image-20702862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/CAPITOL-BREACH-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/CAPITOL-BREACH-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/CAPITOL-BREACH-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/CAPITOL-BREACH-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Jan. 6 riot has nothing to do with any of the \u201cvoting rights\u201d bills favored by the Democrats.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Limits on drop boxes or measures to tighten up the identification requirements around mail-in ballots aren\u2019t suppressing the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The weakness of the system that was highlighted on Jan. 6 last year is the poorly drafted Electoral Count Act. It should be revised to make it explicit that the vice president can\u2019t decide which electoral votes to count and that states can\u2019t discard the popular vote if the outcome isn\u2019t to their liking.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Even though changes along these lines might get bipartisan support, Schumer is pushing to eliminate the filibuster to pass the progressive wish list of electoral nonsequiturs (although a few provisions, like prohibiting the intimidation of election officials, have been added to the Democratic package to address the 2020 post-election fight).<\/p>\n<p>To wrap this push in the bloody shirt of Jan. 6 is opportunistic and irresponsible and can only serve to convince even more Republicans that the outrage over that day is in the service of a nakedly partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer has an uphill climb to persuade relatively moderate Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to go along with kneecapping the filibuster. If the New York senator were to succeed, he will have blown a hole in the traditional practices of the Senate and set the precedent for Republicans \u2014 should they achieve unified control of Washington in 2024 \u2014 to impose all <em>their <\/em>favored electoral policies on the states.<\/p>\n<p>This yin and yang wouldn\u2019t do anything to restore faith in democracy; rather the opposite. But Chuck Schumer is on a mission to achieve, and to use, the power to rewrite the country\u2019s electoral rules \u2014 justifications and consequences be damned.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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