Episode 8-"Election Integrity in Woketopia" Sources
- Dawg
- Jun 21, 2021
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 26, 2021
Oh boy. The narrative being spun surrounding election integrity laws, specifically Georgia's recent law, after the colossal cluster of the 2020 Presidential election is both hilarious and terrifying. The pieces on the chess board that are being played, and often misrepresented, need to be examined so you know how to shut this shit down when some woke butternut decides to lecture you about the "disenfranchisement of minorities" through voting integrity laws.
When it comes to why the woke companies and politicians we discuss in this episode took so much issue, check out these stories to get a bit of background on the talking points:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/10/georgia-new-voting-law-explained/7133587002/
The reaction to the bill from companies like woke Coke and Delta have begun to generate a backlash, and for good reason:
The real reason that the Georgia election integrity bill is such a problem is complex but the short version is this: the bill is really inconvenient to some of the major wish-list items the Dems have slammed into HR1, which basically will federalize the election process unconstitutionally.
If they wanted this done, they'd be chasing an amendment. That is the process constitutionally prescribed to alter the Constitution itself, which requires state buy-in and approval, because the Federal government does not hold the power to oversee elections according to that document (thank god). They know they won't get the states to suffer their power, though, so they try to legislate it away using massive documents and bluster. Thanks to the Federalist, a solid resource if you ever want to look at this stuff, we get a look at what's in HR1 and some understanding as to why election integrity bills are so problematic for the left:
We also have to give a big thanks to the BBC for going ahead and building out a list of things that give us red-flags for rigged elections. All of the red-flags they call out are exactly what the current Congress is trying to enshrine in "law". In September of 2016, they put out an article detailing out basically everything we saw happen in the 2020 election that is sparking election integrity bills nation-wide:
Right, so that's the background. With all of the lies being spun in the media about election integrity measures, take a look at the Georgia bill and decide for yourself if the criticisms are valid:
We talked about the electioneering bit during the podcast, but some of the other criticisms of the bill are its requirements for voter ID, which is a major election fraud deterrent. Apparently, it's super hard and expensive to get an ID according to the woke companies and politicians leaning against these laws. Take a look at what it actually takes in Georgia to pay for an ID or prove your ID:
Not as tough as they make it sound, is it? Especially when companies like Coke that are "against" this bill require more documentation before you can vote your shares as a partial owner of their respective companies. And this bill is probably weaker than is really needed.
Here's the deal: in order for the social contract to remain in-tact, it must be renewed periodically so the people can re-affirm their agreement to be governed by the government in its current form. In order for that renewal to occur, elections must happen in a free-and-fair manner. This means the elections must to clear to follow, well-controlled to diminish cheating and be transparent in both result and process. The 2020 election was none of those. And states undertaking the constitutionally-mandated job of updating their laws to serve the people of their states is the right thing to do. What people should be mad about is states that have done nothing to tighten up their elections. THAT, my friends, is the real threat to the Union.
And if it happens to be that these laws are a problem for power-hungry tyrants that would really like to cheat? Well, that's a bonus.
--Dawg
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