House Republicans Using Questionable Email Voting For Budget Cutting Proposals

[Omaha Steve]

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on May 27, 2010 - 4:33pm
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House Republicans are utilizing a questionable email voting system to help determine items to be cut from the federal budget. Jesse Russell explains.

House Republicans are depending on email addresses entered into a website to decide what should be cut from the budget. On a new website launched by Minority Whip Eric Cantor dubbed YouCut.com visitors can choose which items they think should be slashed from the federal budget. This is the second week of the project. In the first week visitors to the site voted to cut a program that provides additional funding to the poor in the United States. The voting is limited specifically to those who have smart phones or easy access to the Internet. Additionally, the website doesn’t appear to track how many times you vote with a single email address, nor does it have a mechanism for tracking individuals with multiple email addresses. The website also doesn’t block individuals in other countries. The Workers Independent News asked a relative in France to see if they could vote and they said they were able to do so without a problem. Some of the items that can be voted on multiple times by individuals in foreign countries include blocking a 1.4 percent pay raise for Federal workers, ending the Byrd Honors Scholarship Program which provides $1,500 in scholarship funds to students seeking secondary education, and suspending the ability of the federal government to purchase land for five years.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Sounds like politics as usual for the republicans

Letting anyone in the world decide what is best for us