GOP blocks election security bills after Mueller testimony

[KBlagburn]

Source: The Hill

Senate Republicans blocked two election security bills and a cybersecurity measure on Wednesday in the wake of former special counsel Robert Mueller warning about meddling attempts during his public testimony before congressional lawmakers.

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/454635-gop-blocks-election-security-bills-after-mueller-testimony

[sheshe2]

1. Is it possible for them to be any more obvious?

Russia has very deep pockets. Those pockets are bulging from the GOPER's that are lining them.

[MBS]

24. My first reaction as well. n/t

[Freethinker65]

2. Make and place the the ads NOW. The GOP is soft on National Security!!!

Hammer it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. +1 . . . nt

[MBS]

25. + 10,000!! n/t

[Chemisse]

27. The GOP refuses to protect our nation (personalized for senators up for reelection)!

Footage of votes or vote counts.

[stillcool]

3. there has to be ways that state..

governments can secure their elections, and if people knew what they were, they could make demands of their state elected officials. I suppose the Brennan Center already has a study done, but I'm too damn lazy to look it up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Since election systems are managed by individual states (and they are all different),

that's where most of the actual security fixes need to be made. Some states are working on it. But the states will need federal funding, and they aren't getting any.

Why?

[bluestarone]

9. EXACTLY and

If they get federal money, why the fuck is it that the federal courts have no say about their maps?

[Deb]

28. +1 I believe States'costs be paid for by enacting excise taxes on Russian business transctions

Bypassing the GOP all together. It could be enacted on the local levels too.

[Kaiserguy]

16. Governor Wolf in PA

has been trying and the GOP has been doing it best to prevent it. Plus the GOP wants to end straight party voting ballots.

[bearsfootball516]

29. In some ways, they can. I live here in Elkhart County, Indiana and we just got new voting machines

Both Elkhart and St. Joseph County, which is a very blue county, got new voting machines. You get your ballot and insert it into the machine, then use the touchscreen to select your choices. When you're done, it spits the ballot back out with all the choices marked so you can review it.

Then, you insert your ballot into the counting machine and it gives you a message saying your vote has been counted, and the ballot falls into a lockbox that can be used in case of a recount.

Best part, the machines have no internet connection or capabilities, so they are 100 percent non-hackable.

[bearfan454]

30. That is exactly what we need

nationwide.

[Bayard]

32. Excellent!

Is there a way for the evil to access the counting machines though?

[bearsfootball516]

33. Nope. No internet connection in any of them.

[elleng]

34. Largest City in St. Joe County is South Bend, for info.

[bearsfootball516]

35. Yep, I'm just a few miles from it. A Democratic oasis in a sea of red.

Ironically, it was deep red Elkhart County that got the machines first, then St Joe followed.

[elleng]

36. So I see, 'bearsfootball!'

[bluestarone]

4. AMAZING!!

Blatant disregard! Just fine with these assholes if election is RIGGED!

[Rebl2]

6. Beginning to

think most of these Republicans are Putin’s puppets and getting money from him.

[BigmanPigman]

15. That was a conclusion long ago.

The RNC got tons of $$$ from them and they individually got $$$ for their campaign too. They like to keep it all in the family (Kevin McCarthy said so and they all laughed).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.d434f2d39ab6

https://www.democraticunderground.org/100210609418

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/931962660274524160.html

[yaesu]

7. its time for the house to defund all the fascist's security details, travel, everything.

[Ligyron]

10. Absolutely!

If the shoe was on the other foot the GOP would not only de-fund everything but would have launched impeachment itself long ago.

[Iliyah]

8. Karma is a bitch . . .

[Botany]

11. "They" know that they win by cheating.

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Ever since they passed HAVA (help America vote act) we have seen a
red state shift in voting outcomes that does not match shifts in demographics
and a true reflections of societal wants.

[Amaryllis]

12. Not to mention exit polls no longer being "reliable" after being the gold standard for years.

Now they ask why do the exit polls not match the results when the right questions is why do the results not match the exit polls?

[riversedge]

13. simply beyond the pale.

[JudyM]

14. Dereliction of duty couldn't be more clear. No repercussions for violating their oath.

[groundloop]

17. And yet these are the same bastards that whine about alleged voter fraud

[geretogo]

18. Do people need any more proof that the GOP is made up of TRAITORS and FASCIST'S ?

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Fascism is what they want from their party: Complete Control.

[pioche4]

19. Meddling??? Not! It was an digital election attack

If the media stopped talking about 'meddling'...maybe people would start to get it. If you have a heart attack, there is often emergency surgery of some kind. This is more like that...not just another country poking its nose into another's affairs. I do think that democracy and the rule of law are on life support, and the Republicans are all to ready to flip the switch.

[richkay21]

21. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO STOP WRINGING OUR HANDS IN GRIEF . . .

and step away from the comfort of our computers and fight back to reclaim our democracy. We are wrong to sit back and expect Mueller or Nancy Pelosi or anyone to save our democracy. People have forgotten that Democracy isn't easy and that me must fight to protect it. That responsibility falls on us. We must be honest with ourselves. We have become complacent. I am outraged every day by what is happening and I am fed up. I don't want to hear any more analysis or political commentary about what's happening in our country. We must rise up and march on Washington. Not separate marches in major cities but one day, one march, 10 million people in Washington with buckets of tar and feather. I have it. Today is the last straw.

[Bradical79]

22. Sounds like they're going to try and rig the elections -nt

[klook]

26. Two sides in this fight: Russia and USA. The GOP has chosen.

It’s up to us to help defend our country from “all enemies, both foreign and domestic.”

[lark]

31. As I've said for the past few years, they are now 100% Russian Repugs.

Anyone not a Russian cheerleader leaves the party so they remain purely on the side of Russia and criminality and treason. That is who they are.