Contact Governor Youngkin’s Office and ask him to VETO the following Election Integrity Bills:
Veto HB 26 – Provides new non-verifiable ID for voting, issued by welfare contractors: The bill adds more types of “acceptable” Voter identification, from private organizations certified or licensed by the state, Social Services, Dept. of Health, Behavioral Health, Medical
Assistance. Even if they are issued for other purposes, these ID cards should not be acceptable for voter identification.
Veto HB623 and HB1408 – Reduces local control of elections: Decisions about early voting satellite offices, even daily schedules and locations, are removed from local Electoral Boards who are accountable to the community, and instead put under the control of the state or board of supervisors.
Veto HB 904, SB196 and SB300 –Removes data matching methods and deadlines to weaken verification of voter registrations: These three bills weaken Virginia’s current Voter List Maintenance laws by eliminating deadlines specified in the current law for General Registrars and the state. Without the existing deadlines, standards will be weakened to maintain current and accurate Registered Voter Lists. Voters in other states or localities have to be identified using a limited set of criteria, reducing the number of potentially illegal voters that will be sent to Registrars to remove. SB196 – Amended to reinstate longstanding process for voter registration appeals and eliminating certain criteria for unique identifiers.
Veto HB 939 – Limits the Second Amendment: The prohibition of possessing a firearm is expanded from 40-feet out to 100-feet out from a polling location, electoral board meeting location, or drop box. Sponsors had no evidence-based justification for the expanded locations and distance.
VETOED HB1177 and SB606 – Forces Virginia to rejoin the leftwing-associated Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC): Virginia, along with eight other states in the last two years, has left ERIC. ERIC failed to clean voter rolls and shared “Personally Identifiable Information” of voters, including minors, with a private left-wing organization. Since then, Governor Youngkin’s administration has built a state-run system that works better than ERIC to clean the voter rolls. Democrats want to force Virginia to rejoin ERIC.
Veto HB1454 and SB246 – Makes non-citizen voting easier: These two bills remove the identifying features used to distinguish between citizen and non-citizen state-issued driver’s permits and special ID cards and extends the valid use period to match real Driver’s License. These bills make it easier for non-citizens to vote.
Veto HB1534 – Limits a voter’s right to challenge another voter’s registration. This bill removes a voter’s right to challenge the legitimacy of any voter’s registration directly to the Registrar. Instead three registered voters must challenge in Circuit Court earlier than 60 days before an election.
Veto SB428 – Suppresses voter’s choices through Ranked Choice Voting. This bill would further reduce transparency and accountability. Election officials would be forced to conduct any “Risk Limiting Audit” only on First-Rankings in an election. Some voters’ choices are already systematically suppressed with Ranked Choice Voting, because votes are eliminated. Ranked Choice Voting should not be an approved method for any elections in Virginia.
Veto SB364 – Limits the First Amendment: This bill could suppress protected speech criticizing election administration. Election officials and electors are given special protected status, and vaguely defined intimidation and “threats” are made causes for civil lawsuits. The bill is not needed to protect election officials, because existing laws protect all persons from intimidation or threats, and even Biden’s DOJ found that 89% of alleged “threats” against election officials were protected speech. No evidence was submitted by sponsors of any actual threats made in Virginia against election officials.
Line-Item Veto HR30 Amendment 77 #2c: Risk Limiting Audits and Timeline for Local Electoral Boards to Meet (language only)
Patron: Sickles
Page 77, after line 43 insert:
“F.1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections C and D of § 24.2-671.2., Code of Virginia, a risk-limiting audit of a presidential election or an election for the nomination of candidates for the office of President shall not be conducted.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 24.2-653.01, 24.2-671, and 24.2-678 of the Code of Virginia, local electoral boards shall, no more than 10 days following the date of the November 2024 general election, meet to determine the validity of provisional ballots, certify the results of the election, and submit the abstract of votes to the State Board of Elections.”
Additional Info:
Budget amendment 77 #2c , sponsored by Delegate Sickles, is an attempt by the Democrats to legislate through the budget and represents yet another attack on Virginia’s election integrity. This amendment uses the budget to thwart an open and fair election, utilizing the prohibition of a Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) to target a specific and singular race – the 2024 Presidential election. It will eliminate local oversight necessary to conduct an effective and transparent election. In what has now become a predictable pattern, to accommodate this egregious overreach the amendment will also extend an already lengthy election cycle by adding an additional three days to the election certification.
Senator McDougle and Senator Pillion registered their dissent of amendment 77 #2c on the HB 30 conference report signature page. Their opposition to this amendment is greatly appreciated.
Can You Define The Word “Woman”? Republicans are the Party of women, families, and opportunity for all. This commitment is not new – the Republican Party has a long history of championing women’s rights, putting forward female candidates, and focusing on the issues that matter to American women. The 2022 midterms were historic for Republican women. Katie Britt became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest woman in the Senate. On Thursday, Senator Britt will deliver the Republican response to Biden’s State of the Union. Lori Chavez-DeRemer became Oregon’s first Republican Latina elected to Congress. Anna Paulina Luna became Florida’s first Mexican American woman elected to Congress. Monica De La Cruz is the first Republican and first Latina elected to represent Texas’ 15th Congressional district in the district’s 120-year history. Not only did Republican women make history in Congress, but they made history in state and local races across the United States. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected the first female Governor of Arkansas and Leslie Rutledge was elected the first female Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas. Iowa elected a Republican Attorney General, Brenna Bird, for the first time in over 40 years. Soo Hong is the first Asian American Republican woman elected to the Georgia State legislature. Biden’s radical policies have hurt women across the country, leading to women increasingly rejecting Biden – and the Democrat Party – for failing to represent them. Biden’s approval rating is underwater as 60% of women disapprove of the way Biden is handling his job as president. Meanwhile, the Biden administration can’t even define what a woman is. Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was unable to define what a woman is, claiming she was “not a biologist.” Biden’s FY 2022 budget replaced the word “mothers” with “birthing people ” – when questioned about using “birthing people” in the budget, Biden’s OMB Deputy Director Shalanda Young doubled down. On top of dehumanizing women through “woke” language, Biden has taken action to end girls’ and women’s sports. On his first day in office, Biden signed an executive order calling on schools across the country to allow students to compete in the sport of their “gender identity. ” The Biden administration even changed federal prison policy to let prisoners be incarcerated with the gender they identify as, including letting biological males be housed with female inmates. Bottom Line: While The Left is incapable of defining the word “woman”, Republicans have and will continue to champion women and polices that will support them. The RNC looks forward to electing even more Republican women up and down the ballot for cycles to come. |
Biden’s State of Confusion Tonight, Biden will deliver the State of the Union, where he will likely claim the economy is booming, the border is secure, and America is dominant on the world stage – but voters aren’t fooled. Fewer than four in 10 registered voters say Biden deserves to be reelected. Just like Bidenflation, Biden’s third-year disapproval rating is at a 40-year high. Meanwhile, President Trump has a proven record of success — and all the momentum. A recent NYT/Siena Poll shows Biden winning only 83% of his 2020 supporters. In contrast Trump is winning 97% of his 2020 supporters. A slew of recent polls show President Trump opening “his largest general election lead yet” over Biden. Americans are concerned about Biden’s significant cognitive decline. In a recent special counsel investigation, Biden was referred to as “elderly man with a poor memory.” White House aides say that “it’s difficult to schedule public or private events with the president in the morning, in the evening, or on weekends.” His staff has had to make several adjustments to compensate for his advanced age, including extra-large font on his teleprompter and note cards to direct him on what to say and who to call on. 76% of voters, including half of Democrats, say they’re concerned about Biden’s mental and physical fitness for a second term. Americans are worse off financially because of Bidenomics. Prices have risen by 17.9% since Biden took office. Food prices are up 21%, rent is up 19.4%, and electricity is up 28.6%. In February, credit card debt hit a record high of $1.13 trillion. JP Morgan predicts that nearly all Americans will be worse off financially by mid-2024 than they were pre-pandemic. Under Joe Biden’s failed leadership, our country is no longer energy independent like we were under President Trump. Biden’s foreign policy blunders have made the world less safe. Under Biden, Iran-backed terrorists in the Middle East have grown increasingly emboldened. Biden has said he is “proud” of the devastating pullout from Afghanistan that left Americans stranded and resulted in the deaths of 13 service members. Biden has failed to hold China accountable. He has long downplayed their threat to the U.S., saying “China is not our enemy,” “a rising China is a positive development ” for the U.S., and they’re “ not bad folks.” Biden has created an unprecedented crisis at the border. Within his first 100 days in office, Biden rolled back important Trump-era policies, including Remain in Mexico and construction of a border wall, that ensured a secure border. Since then, more than 9 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border. Last month, 22-year-old Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was brutally murdered by an illegal alien from Venezuela — who had previously been charged with a crime, then released, by New York City Democrats. Joe Biden has yet to say her name and publicly acknowledge her murder. This will be Joe Biden’s last State of the Union address – and all Americans can rejoice knowing that. Americans know President Trump will secure the border, fuel economic prosperity, and restore peace through strength. Bottom Line: Voters will not allow Biden to ‘finish the job.’ |
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Biden’s Brief, Highly Sanitized Border Drive-By After three years, Biden and his campaign staff have finally realized that the immigration issue isn’t going away. Biden’s border visit was a dog and pony show, and a sham effort to appeal to voters. The American people can see right through him. Yesterday, Joe Biden attended a carefully orchestrated photo op in Brownsville, TX. The main takeaway? Biden couldn’t care less about the border crisis he created — or the tragic consequences that have resulted. Biden spent just 19 minutes at the border itself (in an area currently seeing relatively few illegal crossings): Biden shuffled along a desolate section of the border, with no illegal aliens in sight — and pre-written talking points in hand. Biden expressed surprise at the amount of fentanyl flowing across his open border. Biden joked to overwhelmed immigration officials that he “finally got [them] some overtime.” Biden asked border officials pre-written questions, presumably prepared by his handlers. Biden opened his remarks by talking about climate change. Biden complained about the asylum process, which he dismantled by suspending President Trump’s successful “Remain in Mexico” policy. Biden said “it’s time to act” on the border crisis after more than three years of damage from his open border policies. Biden watched as impeached DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas smeared Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for acting on border security amid Biden’s refusal. Biden ignored questions on 22-year-old Laken Riley, who was brutally murdered by an illegal alien his administration welcomed in. Then, he shuffled out as quickly as he came in. Bottom Line: Joe Biden has all the authority he needs to secure the border and end the crisis right now. He just doesn’t want to. Come November, voters will restore law & order in our country for him. |
Biden Lied To Our Middle Class Despite Biden’s promise to build an economy “from the middle out and bottom up,” Biden’s policies have increased the wealth gap between the 1% and middle-class workers. · Biden’s policies have been a handout for the wealthy, while low- and middle-income families continue to suffer. o The working class has had to make more lifestyle adjustments to make ends meet. § In 2023, nearly 75% of self-described working class Americans reported cutting back on entertainment and eating out due to inflation. § 51% of the working class are working more hours. o In response to Bidenflation, the Fed has hiked interest rates 11 times since March 2022 – now at their highest level in 22 years – predominantly hurting the middle class in the process. o “Early delinquencies” on car and credit card loans among lower income households are higher than before the pandemic. · Biden is trying to gaslight Americans on the economy. o In January, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Americans just need to give Bidenomics more “time” to take effect. o Biden said his outlook on the economy in 2024 is “All good. Take a look! Start reporting it the right way.” o Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that Americans’ pessimism in the Biden economy is “unwarranted.” · There is no such thing as student loan “forgiveness.” o Biden’s illegal student loan promises were shut down after the Supreme Court struck down his bailout. o Biden has now moved to canceling smaller amounts of student debt – having transferred nearly $138 billion in federal student loans to taxpayers without a single act of Congress. § According to the Penn Wharton Budget Model, Biden’s latest student loan bailout will cost taxpayers $475 billion. o Student loan “cancellation” has been referred to as “a giant welfare program for the bourgeoisie” because 40% of student debt is held by students with advanced degrees such as doctors and lawyers. · The middle class isn’t fooled by “Bidenomics.” o Americans know that Biden’s radical tax-and-spend agenda is responsible for the pain they feel in their pocketbooks. o A majority of Americans believe Biden’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country. o Only 13% of Americans say they’ve gotten better off financially since Biden took office. o 62% of Americans feel the economy is bad and 70% disapprove of Biden’s handling of inflation. Bottom Line: The Biden administration has spent the last three years dismissing, mocking, and laughing at the legitimate economic concerns felt by Americans. Voters will be laughing back come November. |
Everything Costs More Thanks to Bidenflation A majority of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck due to Biden’s failed economic policies. We cannot take a second term of skyrocketing grocery costs, higher rents, and unaffordable mortgages and car loans. · January’s Consumer Price Index rose 3.1% compared to last year. o Auto insurance is up 20.6%; o Household repairs are up 18.2%; o Sporting events are up 13.5%; o Transportations services are up 9.5%; o Nonprescription drugs are up 9.2%; o Baby food is up 8.7%; o Garbage collection is up 6.4%; o Shelter is up 6.0%; o Eating out is up 5.1%. · Prices have risen by 17.9% since Biden took office. · Americans’ finances are being decimated. o Americans are suffering from the lasting effects of Biden’s historic inflation, with many struggling to pay their debts, save for retirement, or afford rent. · Americans are increasingly borrowing to cover daily expenses, finding their regular income is no longer enough to make ends meet. o Credit card delinquencies have surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time. · The polls show how unhappy Americans are with Biden’s economy. o A majority of Americans believe Biden’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country. o Only 28% of Americans rated the economy as excellent or good compared to 57% in 2020. o Only 1 in 5 Americans believe they would be better off financially if Biden is reelected Bottom Line: Despite this administration’s constant gaslighting, Americans continue to suffer from Bidenflation in their day-to-day lives. Bidenomics will only continue to result in paying more to live worse. Biden is Mentally Unfit to be President Biden is a broken shell of a man. The world knows the truth – Joe Biden is experiencing significant cognitive decline. Those around him know that he’s not up to the job in his first term, let alone a second. Just last week, a special counsel found Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials” — including classified documents related to national security and “sensitive intelligence sources and methods” — in his home, garage, and office for decades. However, the special counsel declined to recommend charging Biden because he is an “elderly man with a poor memory.” According to the report, Biden’s memory appeared to have “significant limitations.” He repeatedly forgot when he served as Vice President, and his “ memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.” Even Democrats admit Biden has a problem. Top Democrat strategist David Axelrod claims the special counsel’s report “goes to the core of what is plaguing Biden politically now, which is a widespread fear that he’s not up to it.” Democrat consultant James Carville believes that Democrats are “officially in Hail Mary mode.” Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling Biden’s age a “legitimate issue.” At 81 years old, Biden is the oldest serving president in U.S. history. If elected in 2024, Biden would be 86 years old at the end of his second term. Democrats in Congress admit Biden “does not have the normal strength to go out there and campaign.” Bottom Line: Joe Biden has been compared to a human Roomba, as he often gets confused as to where to go. He is deteriorating right in front of our eyes. Americans agree: Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is undeniable. Biden’s Border Crisis Passes 9 Million Illegal Crossings Joe Biden has all the authority he needs to close the border today. His refusal speaks volumes. This dereliction of duty is driving a national security disaster, an opioid epidemic, and a humanitarian crisis through our open southern border. · 176,205 illegal immigrants crossed the southern border in January — a 237% increase from a typical January under President Trump. o 8,523 unaccompanied children were encountered. o 83,761 illegal immigrants were encountered from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global. o At least 58 people on the terror watchlist have been encountered trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry this fiscal year. · Approximately 5,600 illegal immigrants crossed the border every day in January, dwarfing the definition of a “crisis.” o In 2019, Obama’s DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson claimed that 1,000 illegal border crossings overwhelms the system. o That’s a 460% difference. · FY 2023 saw nearly 2.5 million encounters, surpassing last year’s record. · Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate, with only 5 to 10 percent being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling. o 1,778 pounds of deadly fentanyl and 4,983 pounds of methamphetamine were seized at the southern border in January alone, with much more getting through. · Last month, a twice-deported criminal illegal immigrant tailgated four teenagers who were driving home from bowling and fired shots into their vehicle, killing one and injuring two others. · Late last month, a group of migrants attacked NYPD officers in Times Square, with some of the suspects still at large . · Last week, an illegal immigrant was indicted on capital murder charges in a cheerleader’s beating, stabbing death. · Disgraced Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has officially been impeached by the U.S. House of Representative. · It’s a fitting distinction for Mayorkas, who has overseen — and helped orchestrate — the worst border crisis in American history. · It’s clear Biden and Mayorkas don’t care about the border crisis. o At every opportunity, Secretary Mayorkas has led DHS to prioritize making illegal immigration legal and putting lawbreakers ahead of law-abiding Americans. · Under Joe Biden, every town is a border town, every county is a border county, and every state is a border state. Bottom Line: Biden has made good on his promise to dismantle border security. He has all the authority he needs to reverse his executive actions, enforce existing U.S. laws, and end the border crisis right now. He refuses. |
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