January 29, 2021
Niamh Harris

Two Democrat lawmakers introduced a bill dubbed the “Vote at Home Act” on Thursday.

The lawmakers say they want to expand on the “Oregon-style” mail-in voting nationwide and assert that the move is necessary in order to “make real progress” in the country.

Oregon already allowed voting by mail prior to the covid pandemic unlike the dozens of states that altered their election laws last year,

Britbart reports: The bill, introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), is designed to “fight voter suppression” as detailed by Wyden’s press release. The measure would “massively expand vote-at-home ballot access, provide voters with pre-paid ballot envelopes and enact automatic voter registration.”

The lawmakers point to the unprecedented number of Americans who voted by mail in the 2020 presidential election — a move Democrats vehemently pushed. While progressives largely used the coronavirus pandemic as justification for opening the doors for mass mail-in voting, which many critics warn leads to mass fraud, universal vote-by-mail has existed as a primary goal for the Democrat Party, even prior to the pandemic. The measure introduced on Thursday essentially updates the vote-by-mail measure the two lawmakers introduced in 2017, long before the Wuhan virus struck.

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