Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
“If your aim is to prevent future efforts to steal elections, I would respectfully suggest that conservatives should support this bill.”
Of course these are the words of one of the few remaining voices of patriotism left to the GOP, Liz Cheney, referring to yesterday’s House vote on the Presidential Election Reform Act.
But how many of your members voted for the very thing y’all are always worried about, election reform to prevent fraud? NINE.
And that nine did not include my Texas Rep.
Why not?
The BIPARTISAN Presidential Election Reform Act would amend the 135-year-old Electoral Count Act “to remove any doubt that the vice president’s role in counting Electoral College votes is simply ministerial. It would lift the threshold for members of Congress to force a vote on discounting presidential electors from just one member of the House and the Senate each to one-third of both chambers. And it would require governors to send electors to Congress for the candidate who won, based on state law set before Election Day, which cannot be retroactively changed.”
So please explain why you were a NO vote Rep. Pfluger. (And please don’t fall back on ‘political witch hunt’ or any of the usual nonsense that qualifies as justification these days.)
My understanding is that this bill addresses the ambiguities in the Electoral Count Act that were exploited after the 2020 election, that in turn led to the events of January 6. And that continue to be used as false talking points by the GOP in campaigning and fundraising and inflaming supporters.
In other words, your vote validated the Big Lie.
And opposed a bipartisan effort to prevent future coup attempts.
We watch what you do. Not what you say.
I don’t want fraud in future elections. I don’t want our democracy subverted by the bad actions of a few.
Why don’t you?
