Biden Weaponizes Registration to Boost Democratic Vote

High Republican state election officers are opposing President Joe Biden’s government order placing the facility of the federal authorities behind voter turnout efforts. 

“As a bunch, the Republican secretaries of state have been vocally opposing this,” Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the vice chairman of the Republican Secretaries of State Committee, advised The Every day Sign on Saturday on the annual Conservative Political Motion Convention simply exterior of Washington, D.C. 

On Sunday, Biden delivered a voting rights speech from Selma, Alabama, marking the 58th anniversary of a historic voting rights march. 

Forward of his remarks, a White House press release touted Biden’s government order itemizing actions by 10 federal businesses to spice up voter registration. These included: 

  • The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies registering new residents at naturalization companies. 
  • The Division of Schooling pushing voter registration to college students taking school loans.
  • The Justice Division getting voter info to federal prisoners. 

LaRose mentioned Ohio needs all eligible voters to register to vote and be capable to simply vote. “However to type of weaponize the federal authorities to actually attempt to drive Democrat registration, and that’s what they’re centered on, that’s problematic, and we’re going to proceed combating it,” LaRose mentioned. 

The Biden government order, signed in 2021, additionally talks about partnering with “nonpartisan organizations” to extend voter registration and voter participation. 

Nonetheless, the Biden administration has not offered info to the information media or watchdog teams about which organizations are partnering with the federal authorities. 

“One of many actually regarding issues about this push from the Biden administration is the cash that’s flowing in a really unaccountable solution to teams to do voter registration,” mentioned LaRose, who added he’s skeptical of how nonpartisan the teams getting the cash shall be. 

“The left is artful with regards to getting cash to circulate to issues. We’ve seen this with teams like Deliberate Parenthood that discover backdoor methods of getting cash, regardless that we’ve plugged these holes over and over, and it’s not in contrast to this,” LaRose mentioned. “They’re shuffling federal cash to unaccountable sources to do what they name voter registration. However I feel in lots of circumstances, it’s focused in direction of Democratic populations—which is, that’s the place it’s problematic.”

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