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  1. stumbler

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    Mississippi’s far-right secretary of state is terrified that Biden will encourage 'woke' college students to vote

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    All over the United States, Republicans in state legislatures have been pushing voter suppression bills that are designed to make it more difficult to vote. African-Americans are a major target of the bills, which President Joe Biden and other Democrats are comparing to segregationist Jim Crow laws of the past. And Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson, a far-right Republican, has another demographic he would like to keep away from the polls: college students.

    During a March 26 interview with Mississippi's WLOX-TV, Watson railed against Biden's March 6 executive order on voting access as well the For the People Act — a Democrat-sponsored voting rights bill that was recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives but now faces an uphill climb in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats have a narrow majority. Republicans have often expressed worries about Millennials voting Democrat, and Watson is obviously worried about members of Generation Z rejecting Republicans if more of them are registered to vote.

    Watson told WLOX, "So think about all those woke college and university students now who will automatically be registered to vote whether they wanted to or not. Again, if they didn't know to opt-out, they're going to be automatically registered to vote — and then, they receive this mail-in ballot that they probably didn't know was coming because they didn't know they were registered to vote."

    Biden's executive order of March 6, however, says nothing about automatic voter registration, and it does not mention college students. But that didn't stop Watson from turning college students into the boogeyman, especially if they are what he considers "woke."

    In right-wing media, the term "woke" is often used as an epithet to mean extreme political correctness and "cancel culture." Some liberals have, at times, been critical of "woke" culture as well, including "Real Time" host Bill Maher — who has said that he makes a distinction between "woke" and liberal. But when Maher uses the term "woke" in a critical way, he has very different motivations from someone on the far right such as Watson.

    Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus, a Democrat served as secretary of the U.S. Navy under President Barack Obama, has been highly critical of Watson's comments — tweeting, "His talking points are from (the) 1950s. Slightly updated. Literacy tests anyone?"

    Watson's stand against college students voting is a departure from what he said in the past. When he was running for secretary of state in 2019, Watson said he wanted to make it "easier" for college students to vote and was open to having on-campus polling places.

    https://www.rawstory.com/biden-woke-college-voters/
     
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    Check out what Candace Owens has to say about voter suppression and racism.
    A Navy seal once said, the problem with America is that there isn't enough wrong with America.

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    Boycotts grab headlines but don't really have much impact on treasonous conservative/Republicans that are bound and determined to keep Black and Brown people from voting so they can continue minority rule. But dollars have impact and so the efforts for progressive/liberal/Democrats going forward will concentrate on making sure corporate America doesn't put their money where their mouth is. In other words constantly pointing out businesses and corporations cannot claim they oppose voter suppression and then turn around and donate to the Republican party that is behind voter suppression. They will be driving that reality because they know treason and racism are not good business models.

    Chamber of Commerce groups scramble after big businesses protest voter suppression laws

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    The Post revealed that Saturday more than 100 CEOs and corporate leaders held an online meeting to coordinate ways to use their power across the country to stop the voter suppression bills. The report explained that activists are hoping to not just stop the voter suppression bills but increase support for federal legislation for the new Voting Rights Act diminished by the Supreme Court in 2013.

    https://www.rawstory.com/chambers-commerce-scramble-voter-suppression/
     
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    "Boycotts grab headlines but don't really have much impact on treasonous conservative/Republicans that are bound and determined to keep Black and Brown people from voting so they can continue minority rule. But dollars have impact and so the efforts for progressive/liberal/Democrats going forward will concentrate on making sure corporate America doesn't put their money where their mouth is. In other words constantly pointing out businesses and corporations cannot claim they oppose voter suppression and then turn around and donate to the Republican party that is behind voter suppression. They will be driving that reality because they know treason and racism are not good business models."
    So, lets see. So far Shooter hasn't seen a single thing "conservative/republicans" have done or are doing to keep black and brown people from voting. That's a Jim Crow thingy.
    Why Do Democrats Think Blacks Are Too Ignorant to Get a Photo ID? Why Are Republicans Too Afraid to Call Them Out on Their Racism? (thegatewaypundit.com)

    The ugly history of Democratic suppression of blacks (wnd.com)
    Blacks and the Democratic Party - FactCheck.org
    ".........The Democratic Party didn’t welcome blacks then, and it wasn’t until 1924 that blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity. Most blacks lived in the South, where they were mostly prevented from voting at all."
     
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    US CEOs sign statement against 'discriminatory' voting laws

    Hundreds of American chief executives, companies, non-profits and others on Wednesday signed a statement opposing legislation that would curtail voting rights in the United States.

    Investment bank Goldman Sachs, tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and Google-parent Alphabet joined with wealthy individuals like Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett in adding their names to the statement issued after Georgia enacted strict voting legislation that critics say is aimed primarily at Black voters.

    Lawmakers in dozens of states announced plans to take similar steps.

    "For American democracy to work for any of us, we must ensure the right to vote for all of us," according to the statement published as a two-page advertisement prominently displayed in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

    "We all should feel a responsibility to defend the right to vote and to oppose any discriminatory legislation or measures that restrict or prevent any eligible voter from having an equal and fair opportunity to cast a ballot."

    The declaration came after Georgia's Republican governor signed into a law a measure imposing voter identification requirements, limiting the number of voting drop boxes and hours at polling places, and forbidding volunteers from giving water bottles to voters who can be forced to wait in line for hours.

    The restrictions have been met with a mounting wave of public critcism and boycotts from corporations, sports and entertainment bodies.

    Georgia was one of the most hotly contested states in the 2020 election, when President Joe Biden narrowly prevailed over Donald Trump, who claimed falsely that he lost Georgia due to voter fraud.

    High turnout, especially by Black voters, was key to Biden's victory, and in runoff elections for the two Georgia Senate seats which ultimately gave Democrats control of that chamber by the slimmest of margins.

    Legislators in 43 states have introduced more than 250 bills that would make it harder to vote in response to the former president's "continued lies about voter fraud," according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a progressive think tank.

    Michigan is among those states, and on Tuesday major companies based there, including automakers Ford and General Motors, released a letter saying "government must avoid actions that reduce participation in elections."

    Georgia-based companies Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines slammed the new law in statements last month, while Major League Baseball decided to move its All-Star Game out of Atlanta after the law's passage, and a major Hollywood movie production pulled out of the state.

    Republicans have responded with calls for a boycott of baseball as well as Delta.


    https://www.rawstory.com/us-ceos-sign-statement-against-discriminatory-voting-laws/
     
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    Still waiting for stumbler, or anyone, to point out exactly how any proposed or real changes to voting laws anywhere restrict the ability of any minority group to vote.
     
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      They've degenerated down to caring what a third rate pundit has to say about something as long as it fits the agenda, eh?
       
      shootersa, Apr 20, 2021
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      I was thinking it was a great case for the electoral college.
       
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    'Racial animus exists': Stacey Abrams expertly buries Lindsey Graham at voting rights hearing

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    Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams educated Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about election laws at a Senate Judiciary hearing on Tuesday.

    Graham began his questioning of Abrams by asking her about her support for voter identification.

    "Yes," Abrams said. "There are 35 states in the United States that have had voter identification laws. In fact, every state requires some form of identification. What I've objected to is restrictive voter identification laws that narrow the set of permissible materials."

    "The answer is yes as a concept," Graham interrupted. "Do you support the idea that voting should be limited to American citizens?"

    "Yes," Abrams replied.

    "Do you support ballot harvesting?" Graham asked.

    Abrams noted that "ballot harvesting" is a "term of art that's been propagated to describe a variety efforts."

    She argued that so-called ballot harvesting is "appropriate" in some circumstances where voters would not otherwise have their votes counted.

    "To the extend that they help voters participate in a lawful manner, they should be permitted," Abrams said.

    Graham went on to press Abrams about the voting laws that were recently pushed through by Republicans in Georgia.

    "Do you believe the Republicans in Georgia -- House, Senate -- when they are making the changes to your state voting laws, do you think they are motivated by trying to suppress the African-American vote?" the senator wondered.

    "I have seen it happen that sometimes they are," Abrams admitted. "I have seen other bills that have been truly bipartisan in nature."

    "But do you believe that's the motivation behind these laws?" Graham pressed.

    "I believe the motivation behind certain provisions in SB 202 are a direct result to the increased participation of communities of color in the 2020 and 2021 elections," Abrams explained.

    "I'm out of time," Graham lamented. "Do you think the [Georgia] Speaker of the House Jan Jones is motivated by trying to limit the African-American voters in Georgia?"

    "I believe there is racial animus that generated those bills," Abrams insisted. "I would not assume that that racial animus is shared by every person. But the result is that racial animus exists and if it eliminates access to the right to vote then regardless of a certain person's heart, if the effect is deleterious to the ability of people of color to participate in elections then that is problematic and that is wrong."


    "It should be rejected by all," she added.

    Watch the video clip below



    https://www.rawstory.com/stacey-abrams-lindsey-graham/
     
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    But again, which parts of the law restrict the rights of minorities to vote?
     
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      The democrats have explained it. You have to have the intelligence to get an ID.
       
      Chief Hu, Apr 20, 2021
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      Ah. And minorities are too stupid, or too lazy, to get an ID.
      Is that the thinking?
       
      shootersa, Apr 21, 2021
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      That is the democratic way.
       
      Chief Hu, Apr 21, 2021
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    ‘Making up numbers now?’: Chuck Grassley scorched for saying moving All-Star game out of Atlanta cost ‘100 million jobs’

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    U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is claiming Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta will cost the city "100 million jobs." There are just over 150 million Americans who are currently employed, so the Iowa Republicans Senator is claiming that effectively, two-thirds of working Americans will lose their jobs because of the move, which is false.

    Major League Baseball pulled the game out of Atlanta in response to Republican Governor Brian Kemp signing what has been called "one of the most restrictive and dangerous anti-voter bills in the country."

    But the game is moving to Colorado, so there would be no jobs lost.

    Senator Grassley is wrong. He might have been listening to an April 5 Fox News report, which claimed pulling out of Atlanta cost the city $100 million, but actual experts disagree, with one saying the amount is "a whole lot closer to zero than the $100m number Atlanta was throwing."

    The Guardian reports "Georgia's $100m figure surely makes for a juicy cable-news chyron, the consensus among sports economists is these estimates are routinely exaggerated."

    “The rule of thumb that I always tell everyone," economics professor Victor Matheson told The Guardian, "is just take whatever number the boosters are telling you, move the decimal one place to the left and you've probably got a pretty good guess."

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    Chuck Grassley claims MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia cost the state "100 million jobs"
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    https://www.rawstory.com/making-up-...ar-game-out-of-atlanta-cost-100-million-jobs/
     
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    Colorado doesn't want the fucking all star game here.
     
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    Conservative/Republicans constantly take one look at her and underestimate Stacey Abrams. Which she knows and uses it to her advantage.

    Abrams posts 6-minute video of objections to Georgia voting law after being cut off by Kennedy

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    Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams on Tuesday tweeted a nearly six-minute video that continued her list of objections to Georgia’s new controversial voting law after she was cut off by a GOP senator during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week.

    During the hearing on voting rights, Republican Sen. John Kennedy (La.) asked Abrams to “give” him a “list of the provisions that you object to.”

    The voting rights activist then proceeded to state several components with which she took issue, including limits on the number of ballot drop box locations in the Peach State and a provision of the law that allows precincts to have shortened voting windows, which Abrams argued “may have an effect on voters who cannot vote during business hours.”

    Before she could continue, Kennedy interrupted, “OK, I get the idea. I get the idea.”

    On Tuesday, Abrams opted to continue her testimony in a video, in which she outlined additional components of the law that she argues place unfair restrictions on certain segments of voters, including communities of color and low-income residents.

    “Thank you senator, for that question,” she began in the video. “I know we got cut off before, so let me continue.”

    Abrams went on to address the law’s provision that prohibits non-election workers from handing out food or water to voters within 150 feet of polling places.

    The founder of voting rights advocacy group Fair Fight Action added that the election bill signed into law last month by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) also “codifies voter caging, meaning that an individual can challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of voters in their county.”

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    Abrams also argued that the law strips powers away from Georgia’s secretary of state in overseeing elections, grants more authority to the state legislature in local elections and also mandates that all voters provide a photo ID when submitting an absentee ballot.

    Abrams throughout the video included clips from her viral interaction with Kennedy last week, including when he asked, “Is that everything?”

    In Tuesday’s video, Abrams responded, “Nope. With all due respect, I’m not done yet, senator.”

    Abrams went on to point out more restrictive measures that Republicans attempted to pass in earlier versions of the Georgia bill.

    “Let’s not forget that Republicans wanted to eliminate Sunday voting, but we stopped them,” Abrams said. “And Republicans wanted to eliminate no excuses absentee voting, but we stopped them. And Republicans wanted to eliminate automatic voter registration.”

    “But wait for it, we stopped them,” she added.

    Kemp and Republican lawmakers in the Peach State have argued that the voting law is meant to restore confidence in the integrity of the state’s electoral system, which was repeatedly called into question by former President Trump and his allies in the 2020 election through unsupported claims of widespread voter fraud.

    Abrams has been one of the leaders in opposing the new law, which has also prompted calls to boycott businesses and events based in the state.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-...deo-of-objections-to-georgia-voting-law-after
     
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      Now see, this will really screw up despicable plans.
      If Wisconsin follows it's own law and pulls 188,000 voter names from the polls because they haven't voted in four years how the HELL will those 188,000 "unvoters" be able to vote despicable in the next election?
       
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    The argument was lost by Abrams long before the conversation started...these simpleminded corrupt mother fuckers will always lose arguments once they think it all about race, as that is what they will always turn to.

    Lady Justice is portrayed as being blind for damn good reason.

    Laws are not dictated and implemented based on race, we all know that, even the moron Abrams knows that...she'll be a pathetic mother fucking victim for the rest of her life.
     
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    Lindsey Graham to bail out Georgia Republicans who passed 'Jim Crow 2.0' voter suppression bill




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    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced on Fox News that he would be donating $75,000 to the Georgia Republican Party.

    "That's what happened two days ago when I was in Georgia speaking to the annual Republican Party fundraising dinner for the Republican Party of Georgia," Graham said.

    "Eighteen corporations who gave money last year decided not to give a dime this year," he complained. "Only one corporation in Georgia helped the Republican Party, Georgia Power."

    "They lost $150,000 cause corporations in Georgia have been intimidated by this idea of Jim Crow 2.0. So I'm going to give $75,000 from my campaign to the Georgia Republican Party," he said.

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    https://www.rawstory.com/georgia-voter-suppression-2652907485/
     
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    As Capitol hill observers have pointed out Senate leaders like Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and minority leader Moscow Mitch do not sit on committees. But both of them are attending this hearing because our democracy is at stake and treasonous conservative/Republicans know they can't win elections if people are allowed to vote.

    Senate poised for all-day brawl over sweeping elections bill

    Senators are set for a high-stakes battle over one of Democrats’ biggest priorities that could have repercussions not only for the 2022 midterm elections but the Senate itself.

    The Senate Rules Committee will meet on Tuesday to debate and vote on a sweeping elections bill that progressives view as crucial to the future of democracy and Republicans see as a federal takeover of the voting process.

    The bill comes as GOP-led states around the country are proposing and enacting laws to rein in ballot box access, fueling pressure for Democrats to use their razor-thin congressional majorities to step in. Underscoring how important it is to the party, Democrats reserved their first legislative slot — S. 1 in the Senate and H.R. 1 in the House — for the legislation, known as the For the People Act.

    Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are expected to take part in Tuesday’s committee meeting, lending their heft and headline-grabbing prowess to what’s expected to be a contentious hours-long hearing divided along party lines. Though they are both members of the panel, and former chairmen, they rarely attend the committee hearings.

    Republicans have filed roughly 150 amendments to the bill as they pull out all the stops to weaken or even sink it.

    “I think it will last at least all day. I think at some point the chairwoman will have to decide if she wants legitimate amendments from our members to all have a chance to be voted on,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the top Republican on the panel, referring to Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). “I think they owe it to the other side to let the other side be heard.”

    McConnell is planning to offer amendments during Tuesday’s debate, according to his office.

    Republicans, one committee aide said, will focus their efforts on parts of the bill they believe would make elections “less fair” and “less secure,” including offering amendments to strike provisions that weaken voter ID laws.

    Vowing to fight the bill “at every step,” amendments filed by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) would strike a provision on same-day registration at polling locations, change language supportive of D.C. statehood to language opposing it and try to delay implementation of the entire bill until 2027.

    Blunt will use his opening remarks to paint the Democratic measure as a “one-size-fits all approach” being dictated by Washington that will “cause chaos on election day and erode trust in our election system.“

    “This is a bad bill, full of bad policies that create problems not solutions. We should be focused on making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. Regrettably, the bill before us makes it easier to cheat and harder to detect,” he will say, according to excerpts of his remarks obtained by The Hill.

    The bill passed the House earlier this year for a second time after it went nowhere last year in the GOP-controlled Senate. The legislation, which received no Republican support in the House during the March vote, requires states to offer mail-in ballots and a minimum of 15 days of early voting, while calling for online and same-day voter registration. The measure also calls for the creation of independent commissions to draw congressional districts in an effort to put an end to partisan gerrymandering.

    Amid talks with election officials and among Senate Democrats, Klobuchar has offered a substitute amendment that keeps the bill largely intact but gives states more time to comply with some provisions.

    "We are all united behind this bill," Klobuchar said about Democrats on the panel during an Our Revolution organizing event on Monday night.

    The changes include giving states until 2026 to update their voting systems, with the option of requesting a waiver to delay that further into 2030. It keeps the requirement from the original bill for state motor vehicle departments to implement automatic voter registration by 2023, but they can also request a waiver until 2025.

    Other changes under Klobuchar’s amendment would give polling locations more time to offer same-day registration and more flexibility on areas like early voting and drop boxes.

    A Democratic source predicted that their party’s amendments would largely reflect things already in the updated bill spearheaded by Klobuchar and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).

    “This takes care of some of the biggest challenges, you know, some of the reasonable requests for small jurisdictions to be considered,” said Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a member of the panel, about the changes put forward by Klobuchar and Merkley.

    Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) will offer an amendment that would prohibit states from placing restrictions on volunteers’ ability to offer food or water to voters waiting in line, as long as they are not engaging in a political activity and extend the offer to every voter in line.

    The Senate standoff comes as numerous state legislatures across the country have introduced legislation to place new restrictions on voting in the wake of the 2020 election, which former President Trump and his allies have falsely claimed was stolen. Dozens of challenges from Trump’s legal team were dismissed by the courts, and election experts have said there is no evidence of widespread fraud.

    The Brennan Center for Justice found that as of March 24, legislatures have introduced 361 bills with “restrictive provisions” in 47 states.


    A Washington Post analysis found that the state-level changes could amount to the biggest shift in access to the ballot since Reconstruction, placing limits on the ability to vote for tens of millions of Americans.

    That’s led Democrats and outside groups to argue that the For the People Act is crucial to stem any efforts to try to limit voting.

    Schumer, speaking from the Senate floor on Monday, called the bill a “very top priority” and vowed to give it a vote in the full Senate.

    “Our Republican colleagues face a critical choice between working with Democrats in good faith to pass a law to protect our democracy or siding with Republican state legislatures that are orchestrating the largest contraction of voting rights in decades,” he said.

    “We know our Republican colleagues don’t like every aspect of S. 1, but will they work in good faith to improve it?” he added.

    Outside groups view the bill, and the likelihood that Republicans filibuster it, as a make-or-break moment for the Senate’s rules change debate.

    Democrats at the moment do not have the 50 votes needed to get rid of the legislative filibuster and its 60-vote threshold for advancing most bills. In addition to on-the-record opposition from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), several others have suggested they are wary of nixing or weakening the longstanding rule.

    And while Schumer has floated that a GOP filibuster of the bill could force the Senate to “evolve,” Manchin has signaled that he doesn’t support the House-passed bill, though he hasn’t taken a stance yet on the revised version.

    “We’re looking at everything,” he said.

    Other Democrats stopped short of predicting whether the elections bill could be what breaks the stalemate in the caucus over the legislative filibuster. Senate Democrats will meet as a caucus on Thursday to discuss the legislation, a Democratic source familiar confirmed to The Hill.

    “I’m not the person to ask. The two or three people who are most concerned about the future of the filibuster are the ones you ask,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) when asked if Republicans blocking the bill would move the conversation among Democrats about the filibuster.

    Asked if there was a path for S. 1 with the filibuster still in place, Warner responded: “I’ll let you guys make those judgments.”

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...or-all-day-brawl-over-sweeping-elections-bill