Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is now on board with remote voting after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) became the first senator to test positive for the coronavirus Sunday.
Any regrets Leningrad Linsey for acquitting your Dear Covidiot Leader in the rigged impeachment trial now that one of the 52 RethugniCONS is stricken with COVID-19?
I bet he would have not agreed if it was a democrat!
Miz Lindsey has probably already sent the voting access codes to Moscow.
Of course he wants remote voting.
Discovered last night that votes get lost when your members have to go into self-isolation over a hoax virus.
I think thatās fine, as long as any libertarian Senators only utilize infrastructure that the government did not fund. Rand Paul can hire a horseman to deliver his votes, as long as the horse stays off of any paved roads.
Any option to let Congress use remote voting MUST be tied to a bill that essentially forces states to go to no-excuses mail-in voting for anyone who wants it.
Otherwise, itās just is one more potential excuse for the GOP to try to subvert holding elections in November by using this as an example how āunfortunatelyā deadly in person voting can be.
Lindsey āI Got Mineā Graham really cares about people . . . himself.
I totally support the idea of remote voting
But that could lead to rampant voter fraud. Best have Kobach look into the problem before you take that step.
āIt is a question, a very good question,ā Trump said. āI donāt know if you can do it constitutionally,"
I checked. The Constitution does not allow for any video conferencing or other remote voting procedures. Or is this something that you can do so long as the Constitution does not prohibit it? Maybe Hannity can explain it.
I donāt see a reason why people have to be out on the floor to vote vice being in a different room. But pretty clearly, the Founders wanted everyone in the same town.
So letās sequester the House and Senate in D.C. in their offices for the duration of the outbreak. They can call in their votes from their office (or scrawl their vote on a piece of paper that they slip under the door for a page to pick up).
But for sure, no leaving town to go back to their nice cushy mansions to ride this out, we need them to stay in D.C. legislating. If they all split now, weāll literally never get them back together.
How long can the COVID-19 virus survive on a slip of paper?
Fairā¦ Had actually thought of that when I posted. But do need some way to document their vote and that itās them casting it.
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Mitch I think your colleagues are telling you on this one,to take that pocket mike and shove it.
Any such possibility as āremote votingā or even āvirtual Senate sessionsā will first have to be endlessly debated (HOW?? If their rules, as they insist, only permit congregating face to face??), and amendments to existing Senate rules proposed, discussed, amended, discussed, ultimately voting to see if they can vote (hello, filibuster!) and maybe even voting on the proposed changes.
Moscow Mitch has gotten so used to obstruction and delay as his primary tactics (look how itās over a week since the House sent him a pretty good bill), that this could take weeks. And maybe everybody will have gone home, into isolation, or hospital by then.
Oh, and then theyāll take up how this all shall be doneā¦ And hardly anyone in the chamber has a clue about post-1950s technology.
Amazing how facing your own mortality has made socialists and libruls out of all these conservative howling monkeys.
Democrats should reject remote voting until after voting through the relief package that the Republicans donāt wantā¦
They only see one issue: that Democrats are two GOP quarantines to a working majority in the Chamber.
(this idea)ā
āI donāt know if you can do it constitutionally, but we are considering letting people vote ā senators, congressmen and women ā from a separate location.ā
Three+ years in, he still thinks Congress is a department under his control and that they work for him.
Speaking of voting, I wonder if the nine (9) delegates he picked up will change his āassessingā?