Great nugget — Manchin isn’t the only Democrat with serious concerns about the bill... he’s just the only one willing to say it out loud and risk “incurring the wrath of the legion of liberal advocacy groups.”
LOVE this piece — Democrats can basically print money with Act Blue, and wrote their bill specifically to maximize their online fundraising advantage.
Now they’re worried about other Democrats using it against them.
Phenomenal stuff.
Similar to @JessicaHuseman’s report in the Daily Beast — state election admins are NOT PLEASED they were not consulted when Dems wrote the bill.
This isn’t the last we’ll hear from angry state election officials.
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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
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.
Wow. Miles Taylor wasn't even listed on DHS's senior leadership page when NYT published his op-ed because he was just a policy advisor, not even chief of staff.
Here's a snapshot of top leadership at DHS a few weeks after the op-ed was published. (October 2018)
The NYT answered a bunch of written questions about why they decided to publish the op-ed, and defended the use of "senior administration official."
They used the phrase "upper echelons of an administration." But Taylor wasn't even upper echelons of DHS.
The first time Miles appears on the senior leadership page at DHS as Chief of Staff was in February 2019. Several months AFTER the New York Times published his op-ed.
He would stay at DHS until June. So he was Chief of Staff for a total of 4 months.
.@rachelgirwin is the comms director for Schumer’s Super PAC. Here she is sharing a doctored email suggesting Joni lost the Iowa Farm Bureau endorsement.
This misinformation was shared and retweeted by @davidaxelrod, @greenfield64, and several other large accounts