The American Establishment Wants to Stop Voter Theft

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    The business community and the legal community have had enough of the public vote theft. There is a full-page advertisement in the New York Times today listing approximately 100 major American corporations and almost all of the large law firms (including Morrison Foerster LLP) in the United States, in opposition to the public voter theft being enacted in several states.

    Senator McConnell has overplayed his hand and is now in political trouble. It is often the American establishment that has to step forward and save our democratic form of government. Forty-seven states have pending or enacted statutes with the aim of reducing the vote. Those statutes eviscerate our democratic form of government. The immediate and widespread reaction of citizens was to stop doing business with any company that tolerated voter reduction or theft, and so it should be.

    A bill pending in the congress now would establish a bipartisan commission to draw the congressional lines throughout the country. McConnell called it socialist. He does not know that in California the voters created a bipartisan commission with 59% support. The commission, composed of 14 members from all walks of life in California, worked in a public way and televised all their sessions. They took from anybody who appeared before them. In the end, there was only one small objection by republican senators, which was defeated in the California Supreme Court by a unanimous opinion.

    Of academic interest is a small but growing movement by scholars and a few political figures that support including citizens in the law-making business.

    See Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of Many by Hélène Landemore, a Yale Professor.

    Landemore points to examples where the government calls upon citizens to either enact a law, as in the case of the California Redistricting Commission or make recommendations to the legislature for laws that should be enacted or repealed.

    What fascinates me is this development calls into question the assumption by too many elected officials in Washington D.C. that the public is not intelligent enough to understand what is going on. This writer will never subscribe to that elitist, arrogant point of view.


JJB


James J Brosnahan Copyright 2021

Comments

  1. Lisa TenerApril 14, 2021 at 4:48 PM

    It's a breath of fresh air to hear that corporations and others are working to defeat voter theft and restore our democratic processes. Thank you!

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  2. Jim BrosnahanApril 15, 2021 at 11:34 AM

    Lisa, you are right about the role of established corporations and law firms rising to the occasion and going on record standing for the right to vote. Everyone should ask themselves, what is the meaning of so many corporations and so many large law firms coming together on one issue?

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