The Party of Biden and Harris has historically done everything it could to aggregate power in the hands of the federal government and its Chief Executive. They are central planners ideologically descended from Wilson (America’s first Fascist President) and FDR.
Congress has been equally generous in abrogating its authority to the Executive branch and its Fourth branch of Government, the Bureaucracy (also known as the swamp or Deep State). The Secretary shall make administrative rules as law-making, and all of that.
The point of all that was to ensure they could abuse power with executive action when in power and handicap political opponents when they were not, where the courts are useful idiot roadblocks that protect that abuse and restrict it to Democrats and not Republicans.
Whether the plan is working or not, when the Administrative super-state they erected makes demands from the mothership in DC, the states and people are meant to shut up and listen.
“Quite surprisingly, we have learned that the Wisconsin Elections Commission has refused to provide any administrative complaint process or hearing regarding HAVA complaints against the Commission,” the letter reads.
Until the Wisconsin Commissioners make reforms to comply with HAVA, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission will not provide funding.
Red Flare alert.
If your state isn’t following federal election law, you can expect any federal funding for elections to get a haircut, and Dems have little reason to object, but they will.
The Obama and Biden Administrations were liberal with their application of administrative force regarding elections. You will follow the laws we like and disregard those we do not. Investigations were partisan, a practice that is akin to executive action, which lawmaking is meant to mitigate. You follow the law or find the will and support to change it.
Pam Bondi’s DOJ has pointed to a law and said, You’re not doing this. Do it or we’re not going to hand yo this bucket of money.
Note to the triggered, Biden’s DOJ invoked HAVA in 2024, citing Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for not having election materials in Spanish. HAVA does reference eligibility for materials to assist people with limited proficiency in the English language. There are a dozen references to that, but I could not find evidence that this was a mandate; only that funds were available to help provide election materials to English as a second language learners, which makes sense. If you aren’t doing that, then taxpayers ought not provide funds.
Note: Non-citizens should not be allowed to vote, and reading and speaking adequate English to vote should be a requirement for citizenship. Election materials should be in English. If you are a visually or otherwise impaired English-speaking citizen, there is a need to accommodate the right to vote. but no other. Maybe that’s just me.
Central planners are also big on the right to vote (sorry, voting rights) for them and their party; everything else is an administrative distraction to ensure left-wing political victory.
That’s not how the law reads or works, so the Wisconsin red flare could serve as a warning to haughty blue states that want federal handouts to have strings. Local Dems grab Federal money to force policy on their constituents, for which they never had to vote (ironically).
It looks like the strings have strings.
So, how about we follow the law, or, if we don’t like it, use our democratically elected representatives to change it?
Yes. It is easier to whine and throw a fit.
