Revised Democratic voting bill drops controversial provisions, tweaks others as pressure for action

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A group of Democratic senators — including key centrist Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — introduced a pared-down voting rights, campaign finance and government ethics bill Tuesday in hopes of building momentum for its passage through a closely divided Senate.

The new Freedom to Vote Act retains significant portions of the For the People Act, Democrats’ marquee voting legislation that passed the House this year but was blocked by a Republican filibuster in June. Those include mandating national minimum standards for early voting and vote-by-mail, establishing Election Day as a national holiday, and creating new disclosure requirements for “dark money” groups that are not now required to disclose their donors.

But it also discards significant pieces and tweaks others, largely in an effort to placate Manchin and indulge his hopes of building enough Republican support to pass the bill. Overcoming a filibuster absent a rules change would require the support of 10 Republicans in addition to the 50 members of the Democratic caucus.

For instance, a public financing system for congressional campaigns that would match small donations with federal funds on a 6-to-1 basis has been scaled back to an optional program for House campaigns only, requiring states to choose whether to participate. State and local election officials would have a freer hand to purge voter rolls than under the initial bill, and a provision to change the makeup of the Federal Election Commission, moving from an even split between the parties to an odd number of members in a bid to break partisan gridlock, has been omitted from the revised bill.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/revised-democratic-voting-bill-drops-controversial-provisions-tweaks-others-as-pressure-for-action-mounts/ar-AAOq6M0

[Patton French]

1. Please allow me to restate the headline:

Revised Democratic voting bill drops some of the needed provisions, tweaks others to make them less effective

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2. Permit me to add the following to your

excellent restatement of the headline:

... in the forlorn hope that Senator Manchin will actually vote for something the Democratic Party wants to pass into law.

[lagomorph777]

3. Need to negotiate the purge protections back in - that's an egregious assault on democracy.

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Dark money - the friend of almost every politician. Gag!

Just like the bill to outlaw insider trading which ended up with so many loopholes you could drive your mansion and yachts through them in I’m concerned this bill may be too watered down as well.

If it was the only way some important provisions could be passed of course it’s better than nothing. I just hope they could find a way to add these dropped sections to other bills or add them during the next Congress after the midterms.

But they must stop those republican voter bills from stripping voter protections. They must!

[ShazamIam]

5. The dark money provision is what made it popular with Reppublican voters and I say FUC* them all if

they keep it, even knowing my opinion doesn't matter, nor does yours or the Republican voters who want the changes (the stupid Republicans think labor unions are buying elections. /lol, not since Nixon and Reagan killed the U.S. labor movement.

[vercetti2021]

6. So essentially

Its a fat nothing burger bill that doesn't prevent gerrymandering which is the biggest issue regarding elections.