Thread by @mattdizwhitlock

🚨 Required reading on HR. 1 🚨

Dem election officials are furious with Senate Dems' bill

✅Written with NO consultation with election administrators
✅Administrators were ignored to appease "activist bases"
✅Requires machines.. that don't exist yet

thedailybeast.com/how-this-votin…

It mandates a totally nonsecure "telephone based automatic voter registration system" that .. doesn't currently exist, that states would be required to create.

Election officials are "baffled."

It gives INCREDIBLE power to the Election Assistance Commission.

Ironically, Democrats championing this bill were the same people who harshly criticized the commission just last election cycle for horrific mismanagement.

The bill is SO bad that election administrators believe the entire purpose of it was symbolic -- like a battering ram for Democrats to use against the filibuster.

Even though a bill so bad really can't be expected to generate a lot of pressure against Manchin or any moderate D.

While Politico mentioned briefly the expert concerns about the bill, very few Democrats have been asked about them.

If Republicans were preparing to *end the filibuster* for a partisan bill that is so fundamentally bad.. you know they'd be asked about it

politico.com/news/2021/03/2…