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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMoscow Mitch Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Dem Voting Bills
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell squashed two bills intended to ensure voting security on Thursday, just one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller warned that Russians were attempting to sabotage the 2020 presidential elections "as we sit here."
McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country.
"Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent," said McConnell on the Senate floor.
The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reported Sludge last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics.
Sludge found that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbyist David Cohen, who has worked on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems this year, donated $2,000 to McConnell during this time. Brian Wild, who works with Cohen and has also lobbied Dominion, gave McConnell $1,000.
McConnell said he wouldn't allow a vote on the bills because they were "so partisan," but, as previously reported, earlier this year McConnell received a slew of donations from four of the top voting machine lobbyists in the country.
"Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly something so partisan that it only received one single solitary Republican vote in the House is not going to travel through the Senate by unanimous consent," said McConnell on the Senate floor.
The plans would likely burden the two largest electronic voting machine vendors in the United States, Election Systems & Software and Dominion Voting Systems, with new regulations and financial burdens. Together, the companies make up about 80 percent of all voting machines used in the country and both have far-reaching lobbying arms in Washington D.C. Many of those lobbyists have contributed to the McConnell campaign, reported Sludge last month, an investigative outlet that focuses on money in politics.
Sludge found that Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck lobbyist David Cohen, who has worked on behalf of Dominion Voting Systems this year, donated $2,000 to McConnell during this time. Brian Wild, who works with Cohen and has also lobbied Dominion, gave McConnell $1,000.
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Moscow Mitch Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Dem Voting Bills (Original Post)
Niagara
Jul 2019
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Such a shame that the founding fathers created these above-the-law positions in government!
FiveGoodMen
Jul 2019
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Hekate
(90,667 posts)1. "Dominion" Voting Systems? Are they by any chance affiliated wih the theocrats?
That is a very intentional-sounding name.
Niagara
(7,605 posts)2. Interesting question
On both Wikipedia and yahoo finance, I found that Dominion is a Canadian company with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
I'll link the yahoo finance link in case you're interested in reading it. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/voting-technology-companies-u-histories-133000242.html
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)3. Such a shame that the founding fathers created these above-the-law positions in government!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)4. Moscow Mitch for sale..
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,335 posts)5. ban electronic voting machines, save verifiable elections
You can't verify where electrons have been.
JudyM
(29,233 posts)6. This needs to be bannered all over the media. McConnell's evil needs to be brought out in the open.
As I keep digging on this story, the more insane it becomes.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,955 posts)7. Best Senator money can buy