Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security

[iluvtennis]

...Bills

@PopGpp
THIS IS worth retweeting 👉🏽Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills

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https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-robert-mueller-election-security-russia-1451361

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.

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btw, article from July 2019

[sakabatou]

1. Not surprised

[Mersky]

2. K&R!!!

[moondust]

3. Quid pro quo.

Lock him up.

[Poiuyt]

4. What's this?? Moscow Mitch is corrupt???

[diva77]

5. Yes, this is what happens when a corporation can come between you and your vote.

The door is wide open for extortion between voting machine vendors and those who would like to hold public office.

It would be interesting to trace where the $250 million he approved for election "security" ended up

[burrowowl]

6. Kick!