Title: HR1 expands mail-in voting Original CoS Document (slug): [[https://conventionofstates.com/hr1-expands-mail-in-voting-1|hr1-expands-mail-in-voting-1]] Login Required to view? No Created: 2021-03-07 21:04:34 Updated: 2021-03-23 03:00:00 Published: 2021-03-16 00:00:00 Converted: 2025-04-14T21:10:07.764422803 ---- The election on November 3, 2020, was undoubtedly the most controversial election in recent history.\\ \\ A December 7, 2020, poll from [[https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2020/most_say_mail_in_voting_worked_but_47_say_fraud_likely|Rasmussen Reports]] finds that 47% of likely voters think that “Democrats stole [votes] or destroyed pro-Trump ballots in several states to ensure that Joe Biden would win.” A December 10 poll from [[https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us12102020_usrn76.pdf|Quinnipiac University]] finds that 34% of registered voters think that Joe Biden’s win was “not legitimate.”\\ \\ These polls document that over one-third and up to almost one-half of likely voters or registered voters have serious concerns with election fraud. So what is our federal government doing to address these concerns?\\ \\ Enter HR1 [[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22hr1%22%5D%7D&r=1&s=1|For the People Act of 2021]], legislation that will wreak havoc on the people of Arkansas. This bill passed the U.S. House on March 3 by a vote of 220-210 with no Republican support.\\ \\ Senator Tom Cotton stated that HR1 would “enact a federal takeover of our elections in the name of restoring our democracy.” Furthermore, Senator Cotton believes that this bill would undermine “state voter ID laws” and “require states to allow 16-year-olds to register to vote.”\\ \\ According to a [[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/every-house-democrat-signs-on-to-hr1|Fox News]] article published February 22, this bill attempts to create a national automatic voter registration process, restore voting rights for felons who have completed their terms, expand early voting and enhance absentee voting by use of mail-in voting, end gerrymandering, and deliver “full congressional voting rights and self-government for the residents of the District of Columbia.”\\ \\ On January 14 //[[https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosis-top-priority-consolidating-power-11610667245|The Wall Street Journal]]// editorial board wrote, “Speaker Nancy’s Pelosi’s first legislative priority is cementing Democratic political power.” Indeed, statehood for Washington, D.C., would virtually guarantee two additional Democrat senators, as D.C. leans Democrat by a ratio of about nine to one.\\ \\ Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge signed on to a March 3 [[https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/INAG/2021/03/03/file_attachments/1712412/HR1%20Letter%20332021.pdf|letter]] along with 19 other state attorney generals. Ms. Rutledge believes the For the People Act of 2021 “betrays several Constitutional deficiencies and alarming mandates that, if passed, would federalize state elections and impose burdensome costs and regulations on state and local officials.”\\ \\ During a time when a significant portion of the population has deep concerns with election fraud, it is astounding that a political party would initiate a massive effort to expand federal oversight of elections through mail-in voting and automatic voter registration while attempting to add additional senators to their party.\\ \\ Fight this overreach by supporting [[http://conventionofstates.com/?ref=54340|Convention of States]], a non-partisan group seeking to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress.