Using the power of the Oval Office to tip elections in your party’s favor is frowned upon, no?
Yet, here we are.
It’s been a busy news cycle. Certainly, the bombshell SCOTUS decisions have dominated headlines and chyrons of late; Roe, religion and guns are the hot new thing. It’s been so hectic, it would be understandable to have already forgotten about President Biden’s executive order.
This one, from last year: Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting
You remember —Biden’s big election grab. Still nothing? Democrats are counting on Americans not caring what’s in the order, because it represents another Biden Administration overreach.
“The Biden administration wants to use federal government resources for political, get-out-the-vote purposes, and it’s up to strong leaders in state and local government to stop them,” wrote Russ Vought of the Center for Renewing America and Tarren Bragdon of the Foundation for Government Accountability. “We strongly urge those in positions of power to stop President Biden’s power grab and act soon.”
And it’s not just “get-out-the-vote purposes” —it’s “get-out-the-blue-vote.”
“Conservatives may be in the dark, but left-wing activist groups are fully involved in the plot,” the Federalist reports. “The left-wing dark money group Demos put out press releases immediately after the executive order was issued, saying it would be happy to work with federal agencies on the project.”
In a blog post, Demos admitted that it“organized agency-based working groups and met with the staff in these agencies to provide technical expertise as they developed their initial voter registration plans, to ensure those plans reflect the knowledge and priorities of various agency stakeholders.” It also admits it “developed research and resources to assist and advance agency efforts to implement robust voter registration opportunities, including a slide deck explainer of the agencies’ potential for impact, best practices for conducting voter registration at federal agencies, and recommendations for modernizing and improving the accessibility of Vote.gov.”
“It’s unethical to tie federal benefits to election activity,” Federalist EIC Mollie Hemingway writes. “It’s unconstitutional to have the federal government take authority that belongs to the states and which Congress has not granted. And, given that all 50 states have different laws and processes governing election administration, it’s a recipe for chaos, confusion, and fraud at a time when election security concerns are particularly fraught.”
State officials need to step up and squash this before it gets out of hand.
