Kenjo
2023-04-11 19:43:36 UTC
New Mexico is run by pedophiles. Epstein pedophiles.
The bill is a massive expansion of Democrat-backed election policies thatblue states across the nation are intent on ramming through state
legislatures.
On March 30, New Mexico Governor and Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham
signed one of the worst election bills in the U.S. into law. The bill,
dubbed the New Mexico Voting Rights Act, is a massive expansion of
Democrat-backed election policies that blue states across the nation are
intent on ramming through state legislatures.
As my colleague Shawn Fleetwood noted, such a strat is the result of
congressional Democrats failure to pass HR 1, a measure that would cement
Democrats radical election policies into law and federalize state
elections. Because HR 1 died in the Senate in 2021, Democrats have decided
the best way for them to change the countrys election laws is to
implement them state-by-state. And New Mexico, where Democrats enjoy
unified control of the state government, is an optimal place for them to
start.
Heres a brief overview of what the bill does.
Automatic Voter Registration
Starting in 2025, New Mexico residents who apply for a drivers license
will automatically be registered to vote, as well as in other public
agencies designated by the Secretary of State. Such a move is
reminiscent of Bidens executive order federalizing elections, which
turned federal agencies, especially those that dole out federal benefits,
into voter registration centers. There are serious ethical concerns with
tying federal or state benefits to election activity. As Federalist
Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway noted, Federal agencies that interact
with the public by doling out benefits can easily pressure recipients to
vote for particular candidates and positions. This same risk pattern
presents itself in New Mexico.
Plus, by automatically registering those who apply for a drivers license,
New Mexico increases the chance of accidentally granting the franchise to
non-citizen residents since the state allows noncitizens to obtain
drivers licenses. It will not be surprising if New Mexico ends up like
Colorado, which also automatically registers those who apply for a
drivers license to vote and allows noncitizens to obtain licenses.
Despite the Colorado Secretary of States insistence that noncitizen
residents would not be allowed to register to vote, Colorado ended up
sending 31,000 foreign nationals voter registration mailers prior to the
2022 midterm elections.
As Carla Sonntag, founder and CEO of New Mexico Business Coalition and
Better Together New Mexico, told my colleague, Shawn Fleetwood, HB 4 is
far worse than anything weve seen before. Even though proof of
citizenship is supposed to be required to vote, the automatic registration
mandate includes New Mexico residents who may not be here legally. And
since New Mexico provides drivers licenses for nonresidents, this mandate
significantly increases the likelihood of non-U.S. citizens being
registered to vote.
Felon Voting
Another provision of the bill grants roughly 11,000 felons currently on
probation or parole the right to vote, abolishing previous voting
prohibitions. It also provides voter registration opportunities for felons
once theyve completed their sentences. As Ive previously noted, granting
the vote to felons is part of the lefts strategy to harvest low-effort
votes and add thousands of new voters to their ranks, as felons
disproportionately vote Democrat. Per a 2019 Ragnar Research study,
incarcerated felons are more than three times as likely to be registered
Democrats (1.7:1) or unaffiliated (1.4:1) than Republicans. Ex-felons are
four times as likely to be Democrats (2.7:1) or unaffiliated (1.3:1).
While Democrats may consider granting criminals the right to vote a civil
rights issue, make no mistake, they really see these individuals as a
vulnerable new constituency they can turn into a reliable voting bloc
(along with young people, single women, and minorities).
Mail-in Balloting
HB4 also allows New Mexico residents to opt into all-mail elections,
meaning the state will send them an absentee ballot for all future
elections as long as they dont miss two consecutive elections. Such a
move will likely lead to New Mexico becoming an all-mail state.
Currently, eight states conduct their elections exclusively by mail
(thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns that popularized it), with disastrous
results. For example, 10 million mail-in ballots are missing in California
from the 2022 midterm election. In Nevada, 1.2 million ballots from the
2022 election cycle remain unaccounted for. While election officials
believe a majority of these ballots were thrown out or ignored by
recipients, because there is no chain of custody with all-mail elections,
there is no way of knowing whether the ballots were withheld from
recipients or fraudulently filled out.
Plus, states that allow for mail-in balloting greatly incentivize ballot
harvesting by political operatives. Democrat activists can now coax
potential voters to fill out their ballots on the spot, wherever they
might be, and later deliver them to election offices rather than having to
convince voters to do the legwork themselves. And especially as HB4
mandates a minimum of two absentee drop boxes per county, expect Democrats
to double down on their ballot harvesting efforts.
What This Means
Election integrity advocates must be vigilant of attempts by Democrats to
pass similar legislation to that of New Mexico in other states. For
example, bills like Minnesotas HF 3, which establishes automatic voter
registration and lowers the voting age to 16. Other efforts are underway
in New Jersey and Wisconsin. This is not to mention smaller pushes to
expand noncitizen voting, granting the franchise to felons, and pre-
registering high school students. All of these attempts are evidence of
the lefts efforts to restructure American elections in ways that give
leftists a near-permanent electoral advantage.
New Mexico Democrats have decided to follow in Congressional Democrats
footsteps, jamming through highly partisan election laws that weaken
election integrity for partisan gain, Director of Honest Elections
Project Action Jason Snead said. HB 4 pushes the state towards all-mail
voting by creating a permanent mail voting list, automatically returns
voting privileges to felons who have not yet completed their full
sentences, and mandates error-prone automatic voter registration. Each of
these reforms are as partisan as they are unwise, and jeopardize voters
trust in elections. These new laws are a step in the wrong direction for
election integrity.
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