'MoscowMitch' hashtag trends after election security bills blocked

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In brief: Republican Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, on Thursday morning blocked two bills put forth by his Democratic colleagues which had aimed to improve the security of elections. Given the focus on foreign interference in recent elections, notably Russia's "meddling," McConnell earned himself a new nickname in the process -- #MoscowMitch.

Former Special Counsel to the US Department of Justice, Robert Mueller, testified this week on the two volumes of his report investigating election meddling during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Whatever your views on his testimony and the conclusions reached on obstruction of justice, Mr. Mueller was clear about one thing – Russia had attempted to influence the election, and would do so again.

Not 24 hours later, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked two bills submitted by Democrats that aimed to secure future elections, and the public has been quick to react. On Friday, the hashtag #MoscowMitch trended, as people voiced their disapproval of McConnell’s decision.

The two bills had sought to require paper ballots, greater funding of the Election Assistance Commission and an obligation on campaigns to inform the FBI of any offers for help from foreign governments.

On the Senate floor on Thursday morning, McConnell said “it is very important that we maintain the integrity and security of our elections in our country.” So he agrees with the Democrats’ goal, but clearly believes that the bills as presented were not best designed to meet that goal. McConnell called the bills “highly partisan,” and coming from “the same folks who spent two years hyping up a conspiracy theory about President Trump and Russia.”

McConnell didn’t go into specifics as to why the bills were “highly partisan” in his eyes, other than stating that they had only had one Republican vote on their side when they had earlier passed through the House of Representatives, therefore the bill must be partisan.

In response, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said that if McConnell objected to the bills as proposed, “let’s put another bill on the floor and debate it.” That didn’t happen, so as of yet, there are no new efforts to secure future US elections in the wake of Robert Mueller’s testimony.

 

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[dhjohns]

I am all for increased election security, but going back to paper ballots, and ballot box stuffing is ludicrous.

[dhjohns]

25 minutes ago, sl0pth3p1g said:

why, is it too hard to do? The people who cheat would hate this idea as well. 

I just do not trust paper ballots.

[Infinite_Vision]

I think people need to look at this from different perspectives as well.  Who or what are the makers of the voting machine?  Is there a backdoor to the voting machine?  Can the voting machine be hacked?  Those are vital questions that needs to be asked.  I think you need the paper ballots so that we can scan them into the voting machine like some state do?  Each states should have representatives from various parties checking to see if there are no one messing with the voting process.  They need to keep the paper ballot as a backup in case there are voting irregularities or to close to call contest.  There were cases last year, for example, Broward Country where voting irregularities happened.  

 

To increase election security will include making sure those who are not all allow to vote do not get to.  People should be require to have ID to vote.  Some people will say this is discriminatory but it is not.  Every US citizen can go to the DMV to get driver license.  The tricky part is states that do give out driver license to undocumented (illegal) immigrants.  I have read that sometimes the system accidentally give these people access to voting privileges.  There was lady in New Mexico that I read that voting like 7 or 8 times even though she was not legally allowed to.  The US needs to make sure legal citizen are able to vote, make sure no dead people are allowed to vote, have voter ID, tough inspection of paper ballots that goes into the voting machines.  When those are done, they needs to be stored at a secure facility.     

 

I laugh of the Russian collusion part.  They tried to tie the Russian collusion to the Russian meddling part.  They stated that Russian bought ads on FB to influence the election and charged them for it.  How many people watch those ads and were influenced by them?  And don't tell me the US government doesn't try to do the same in their election and other countries.  The Russian collusion part was the biggest waste of taxpayers money ever.  30 to 4o millions down the drain for nothing.  Various congressional and senate committees have investigated and they all came to the same conclusion---no collusion.  Even the Mueller report stated the same thing.  The prosecutor job is not to decide if someone is guilty or not.  If he/she does not have evidences then there is no charge.  I watch the whole Mueller testimony and it was ridiculous.  He couldn't even answer a lot of the basic questions.  He kept saying I cannot answer that question, can you repeat that question, it is not in my purview,etc.  How can someone that is in charge of a major investigation not know what was in his report?

 

Those are some of the questions that I have about the bill put forth and from the articles itself.