House GOP Introduces Election Integrity Bill
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A new election reform bill has been introduced.
House Republicans announced a new bill, the “American Confidence in Elections Act,” on Monday.
House Administration Committee Republicans introduced an election integrity bill that they warn will be attacked by the left as similar to how Georgia’s 2021 election integrity law was.
Five of the committee’s Republican members held a press conference Monday in Georgia to announce the “American Confidence in Elections Act.”
When asked whether the committee expected Democrats to pushback against the legislation, Rep. Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, the committee’s chairman, said attacks are expected.
“Rest assured, the left is going to attack this legislation. It’s one of the reasons I think it’s important that we’re here in Georgia, because we saw the left’s false attacks against voter integrity legislation previously,” he said, according to Fox News Digital. “I have no doubt that the left is going to attempt to attack, to mislead, to disguise the work that we’re doing.”
The bill requires states to preserve election materials for 22 months and allows states to use funds for audits.
It requires states to preserve election materials like ballots and ballot envelope images for 22 months, and expressly allows the states to use those federal funds on audits and to implement certain restrictions on “ballot harvesting,” or designating a person to collect and return a mail ballot for a voter, according to a GOP summary of the bill. The Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration would also be required to provide data to states for the purposes of checking if registered voters are citizens or if they had died.
In changes to campaign finance rules, the bill loosens rules on political party committees coordinating expenditures with candidates and raises contribution limits for political party committees.
Another provision would prohibit 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations from directly funding election boards. The provision is a response to GOP uproar about “Zuckerbucks,” a reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pouring millions into a nonprofit that sent money to election boards in 2020, which Republicans allege benefited “overwhelmingly Democratic precincts” and funded activities that Republicans oppose like ballot drop boxes.
The bill also repeals an executive order from President Biden that directed heads of federal agencies to evaluate ways to promote voter registration and voter participation.
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