{"id":1589471,"date":"2022-08-04T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589471"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:31:54","slug":"15-republican-secretaries-of-state-demand-biden-halt-election-takeover-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/15-republican-secretaries-of-state-demand-biden-halt-election-takeover-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Republican Secretaries of State Demand Biden Halt Election-Takeover Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F15-republican-secretaries-of-state-demand-biden-halt-election-takeover-plans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589471&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Fifteen Republican secretaries of state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/news\/wvnews\/west-virginias-mac-warner-14-other-secretaries-of-state-write-biden-opposing-voter-registration-exec\/article_7af71e84-1401-11ed-b81d-f346489eb02e.html\">submitted<\/a> a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wvsos-my.sharepoint.com\/personal\/lpalmer_wvsos_com\/_layouts\/15\/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Flpalmer%5Fwvsos%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2FPress%20Release%20Attachments%2FJoint%5FSOS%5FBiden%5FEO14019%2Epdf&#038;parent=%2Fpersonal%2Flpalmer%5Fwvsos%5Fcom%2FDocuments%2FPress%20Release%20Attachments&#038;ga=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to President Joe Biden Wednesday urging him to rescind Executive Order 14019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/23\/yes-biden-is-hiding-his-plan-to-rig-the-2022-midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, EO 14019 is the Biden administration\u2019s sinister attempt at federalizing elections. It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2021\/03\/07\/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directs<\/a>\u00a0all federal agencies to \u201cexpand citizens\u2019 opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.\u201d Following the order, multiple agencies have laid out plans to transform their offices into voter registration agencies. These include the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/eta\/eta20220325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Labor<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/04\/27\/hud-pushes-voter-registration-drives-in-public-housing-under-bidens-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/a>. Such agencies are also allowed to work with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.demos.org\/blog\/anniversary-bloody-sunday-look-president-bidens-voting-access-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">left-wing get-out-the-vote groups<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While congressional Republicans have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/budd.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/budd_letter_to_omb_on_voting_eo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pushed<\/a>\u00a0the Office of Management and Budget for documents behind the EO, state officials have been quite lax in demanding answers or creating resistance. Thankfully, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner spearheaded a letter with 14 other Republican secretaries of state calling on Biden to end his unconstitutional federal takeover of elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the letter states, \u201cthe Constitution clearly says the state legislatures\u00a0<em>shall\u00a0<\/em>(emphasis added) prescribe the way elections are run, and that if any adjustments need to be made, such adjustments are the province of Congress, not the Executive branch.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The letter stipulates that the EO robs states of their duties within the Constitution\u2019s Election Clause, and as such, is unconstitutional: \u201cExecutive Order 14019 calls for federal agencies to develop plans that duplicate voter registration efforts conducted at the state level and ignores codified procedures and programs in our state constitutions and laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen other Republican secretaries of state signed onto Warner\u2019s letter, including John Merrill of Alabama, Cord Byrd of Florida, John Thurston of Arkansas, Brad Raffensberger of Georgia, Lawrence Denney of Idaho, Holli Sullivan of Indiana, Kyle Ardoin of Louisiana, Michael Watson of Mississippi, Christi Jacobsen of Montana, Bob Evnen of Nebraska, Frank LaRose of Ohio, Steve Barnette of South Dakota, Tre Hargett of Tennessee, and Ed Buchanan of Wyoming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Center for Renewing America President Russell Vought and Foundation for Government Accountability President Tarren Bragdon\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/22\/states-must-stand-up-against-the-biden-takeover-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advice<\/a>\u00a0for states resisting Biden\u2019s EO is to order state agencies to ignore federal guidance on becoming voter registration agencies and \u201cpass legislation barring state agencies from seeking to become\u201d such agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Hillsdale College in May 2021 with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. 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