Letter to the editor: For the People Act bad for democracy

I must vigorously disagree with letter- writer Carole Briggs (“We should make voting easier, not harder,” March 16, TribLIVE) and her support of House Resolution 1. This bill is full of legislation that will cement many of this past election’s questionable voting practices such as mail-in voting, no voter ID, counting votes submitted after Election Day, restrictions on poll-watchers, same-day voter registration and ballot harvesting.

Americans should ascribe to “one man, one vote,” not flooding the country with unrequested mail-in ballots that can’t be assigned to a specific voter as absentee ballots can.

HR 1 would take local control away from our states as the framers intended in our Constitution and give it to the federal government, which will always vote themselves more power. The media won’t tell you that many state legislatures, such as Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, are trying to remedy many of these past election irregularities. If you’ve watched any of the hearings conducted by these legislatures, you would have a different takeaway than much of the “conventional wisdom.” We will never get the opportunity to question election results, as many Democrats have consistently done, if we must go through Washington for answers.

HR 1 is not “For the People”; it’s for the Democratic Party. If you think one-party rule is good, then you should look to China, Venezuela and Russia for your models of democracy in action.

HR 1 sailed through the House along party lines; if you don’t want the same result in the Senate, complain to your senators and state legislators.

Michael Contes

New Kensington