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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMITCH MCCONNELL RECEIVED DONATIONS FROM VOTING MACHINE LOBBYISTS BEFORE BLOCKING ELECTION SECURITY B
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.
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Moscow Mitch. He is disgustingly corrupt and vile. Doesnt even bother to hide it anymore. Hes proud of it.
Too much power.
No integrity.
oasis
(49,379 posts)Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)As removing Trump. Everyone please donate to Amy McGrath, if you can, she can beat McConnell. This nightmare must end!
barbtries
(28,789 posts)they don't even try to hide it. republicans are giving a great big fuck you to the country.
GOTV. never more important.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)This is the kind of straight line that voters can understand.
spanone
(135,829 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,332 posts)Neither Putin nor the Gangsters Of Putin profit from paper ballots.
Electronic voting devices cannot be verified by the voter and the count cannot be verified by the public.
Paper ballots can be verified by the voter and the count can be verified by the public.