{"id":2236163,"date":"2024-05-03T04:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-election-games-have-one-thing-in-common-shifting-power-from-voters-to-party-bosses\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:30:24","slug":"democrats-election-games-have-one-thing-in-common-shifting-power-from-voters-to-party-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-election-games-have-one-thing-in-common-shifting-power-from-voters-to-party-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Playing Election Tactics: Empowering Party Leaders Over Voters"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdemocrats-election-games-have-one-thing-in-common-shifting-power-from-voters-to-party-bosses%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=2236163&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>The article discusses how Democrats manipulate election processes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-iranians-charged-for-cyberattacks-meant-to-influence-2020-election\/\" title=\"Two Iranians Charged for Cyberattacks Meant To Influence 2020 Election\">undermine voter confidence<\/a>, and disenfranchise voters to maintain\u200d power. Tactics include complex voting schemes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration\/\" title=\"Georgia Republican State Senators Propose Bills to End No-excuse Mail Voting, Automatic Registration\">automatic voter registration<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andrew-yang-has-commanding-lead-in-nyc-mayoral-race-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Andrew Yang Has Commanding Lead In NYC Mayoral Race, Poll Shows\">ranked-choice voting<\/a>, all controlled by party bosses. These strategies, aimed at securing elite interests, highlight a need for electoral transparency and fairness. The article explores how Democrats \u200buse various tactics, such as intricate voting systems \u200dand controlled registrations, to wield power and influence election outcomes. These strategies, orchestrated by party leaders, raise concerns about \u200bfairness and transparency in the\u200b electoral process, emphasizing the\u200b importance of safeguarding \u200dvoter rights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Just about every election cycle, Democrats spring a new voting scheme on unsuspecting voters, each one more complicated than the last, with the predictable result of confusing voters and reducing confidence in the eventual results. This is all by design. Instead of earning voters\u2019 loyalty, leftists would rather gain or maintain power by manipulating the election process however possible.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Control by Party Bosses<\/h2>\n<p>An egregious example of this took place earlier this year in New Hampshire, where the office of the state <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/10\/the-dnc-is-engaged-in-unlawful-voter-suppression-ahead-of-primaries-new-hampshire-ag-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attorney general ended up issuing a cease-and-desist order<\/a> to Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials for purportedly violating state voter suppression laws. Party bosses, who wanted South Carolina to be the first Democrat primary in the nation, bumped the presidential primaries in New Hampshire and Iowa down on the calendar after claiming the latter\u2019s caucuses were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/new-hampshire-attorney-general-accuses-dnc-voter-suppression-rcna132945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">too white and too undemocratic<\/a>.\u201d When New Hampshire went forward with a January primary anyway, in accordance with state law, the DNC instructed the state party to tell voters their votes would be \u201cmeaningless\u201d if they voted on Jan. 23, rather than on the DNC\u2019s preferred primary date later in the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-622792338\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-62e2230a5a81d5a2052333837c3022f3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-62e2230a5a81d5a2052333837c3022f3\"><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/10\/the-dnc-is-engaged-in-unlawful-voter-suppression-ahead-of-primaries-new-hampshire-ag-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist<\/a>, \u201cin his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doj.nh.gov\/news\/2024\/documents\/01082024-nhdoj-candd-to-rbc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cease-and-desist order<\/a> to the DNC, Assistant Attorney General Brendan O\u2019Donnell underscored how \u2018[f]alsely telling New Hampshire voters that a New Hampshire election is \u2018meaningless\u2019 violates New Hampshire voter suppression laws,\u2019 and further ordered the organization to stop engaging in such \u2018unlawful\u2019 conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, New Hampshire Democrats fell in line with the DNC bosses by holding a \u201cfirehouse\u201d primary that complied with the DNC rules. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/04\/28\/new-hampshire-democrats-national-convention-00154861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to Politico<\/a>, \u201cdozens of New Hampshire Democrats showed up in an effort to regain their status within the party and earn back their 24 delegates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the many ways Democrat Party elites have schemed to disenfranchise their own voters in the primary and Republican voters in the general elections.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two presidential election cycles, Democrat party bosses chose their nominees, not the voters. In 2016, Bernie Sanders won the popular vote over Hillary Clinton in the crucial New Hampshire primary, but Hillary won more convention delegates because the Democrat Party rules allowed pro-Hillary \u201csuper delegates\u201d to vote for their preferred candidate instead of the state\u2019s winner. In 2020, Biden lost in both New Hampshire and Iowa, but after winning South Carolina, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-buttigieg-dropped-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">party bosses again cleared the field,<\/a> likely aided by the potential for lucrative cabinet positions for candidates like Pete Buttigieg, who fell in line to clear Biden\u2019s path.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-315ae368db06308448e33b3013519d86 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-315ae368db06308448e33b3013519d86\"><\/div>\n<p>As distasteful as it is, 21st-century party bosses are still controlling the process, not in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-claims-his-elon-musk-interview-is-being-suppressed-by-x-but-the-numbers-cast-doubt-on-that-claim\/\" title=\"Don Lemon suggests his interview with Elon Musk is being silenced by X, yet viewership figures suggest otherwise\">smoke-filled backrooms<\/a>, but through sophisticated election hijinks. It is part of the reason for Donald Trump\u2019s appeal: He was not chosen by the party bosses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shrinking Primary Power via Automatic Voter Registration<\/h2>\n<p>Another classic example of voter manipulation is automatic voter registration (AVR), which entails bureaucrats registering people to vote when they get a driver\u2019s license, sometimes without providing the applicant any meaningful choice. In many states with AVR, voters <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/more-voters-less-party-affiliation-2-years-into-automatic-voter-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">registered<\/a> through the DMV are only given the option to choose a political party via a follow-up mailing, and many individuals never select a party, so <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-05-steep-party-registration-automatic-voter.html#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AVR actually reduces partisan registration.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>But to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/elections-and-campaigns\/state-primary-election-types\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">participate<\/a> in primary elections in many states, voters must choose a political party and those without a political party affiliation cannot participate. With fewer people voting in the primary elections, party bosses get more power. In blue states or urban areas, this system can also increase turnout in the general election, while still reducing voter turnout of the \u201cmasses\u201d in the primaries, where the winning candidate is usually selected. <\/p>\n<p>And because there is inherent confusion and incompetence anytime government agencies take on a task they aren\u2019t designed to do, mistakes happen. In this case, motor vehicle departments often disenfranchise voters when their party affiliation is changed to independent or not affiliated.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6e11a643ca440d88a47c511b78aa8c62 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-6e11a643ca440d88a47c511b78aa8c62\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disenfranchisement via Ranked-Choice Voting<\/h2>\n<p>The newest scheme advanced by Democrat party bosses, ranked-choice voting (RCV), involves having voters rank multiple candidates in order of preference, and often leads to chaos and confusion from multiple vote counts. It can also cause ballot \u201cexhaustion,\u201d which happens when all the candidates listed by a voter have been eliminated and the ballot is effectively useless.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/electionconfidence.org\/2024\/01\/11\/ranked-choice-voting-hurts-minorities-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study commissioned by the Center for Election Confidence<\/a> (CEC) and conducted by Princeton professor Nolan McCarty shows how RCV disproportionately disenfranchises black and Native American voters, \u201cbecause such voters disproportionately \u2018exhaust\u2019 their ballots thereby removing them from decisive vote tabulations.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/609776\/democrats-lose-ground-black-hispanic-adults.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sixty-six percent<\/a> of black Americans identify as Democrat or Democrat-leaning, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/native-americans-support-democrats-over-republicans-across-house-and-senate-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">44 percent<\/a> of Native Americans say they are registered Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>As RCV is foremost a tool for determining party nominees, this is a boon for elitist Democrats because they can use the complicated system to protect incumbents or other favored candidates without the bribes or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taken-for-granted-why-conservatives-can-win-over-undecided-hispanic-voters-ahead-of-midterms\/\" title=\"\u2018Taken For Granted\u2019: Why Conservatives Can Win Over Undecided Hispanic Voters Ahead Of Midterms\">smoke-filled back rooms<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, in elections with multiple candidates and positions on the ballot, such as municipal elections, Republicans used to win some of those seats, even in heavily Democrat cities.\u00a0RCV makes that much more difficult.  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Power Play<\/h2>\n<p>The left is now toying with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/why-shouldnt-voting-be-mandatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">idea of \u201cmandatory\u201d voting<\/a>, which could involve fining those who choose not to participate. But the mandate would presumably only apply to general elections, not primaries, further increasing the parties\u2019 power to pick their nominees. Once again, this scheme gives party bosses an advantage in selecting their preferred candidates in the primary, while potentially canceling out the vote of informed voters in the general election with votes cast by low-information voters who are only voting to avoid a fine. <\/p>\n<p>The last time Democrats controlled the House they made it their top priority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/1#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20the%20bill%20expands%20voter,to%20carry%20out%20congressional%20redistricting.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pass an election \u201creform\u201d package<\/a> aimed at growing and protecting the incumbent Democrat majority in Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Democrat party bosses first and foremost want to stay in power, by any means necessary. For over 20 years, leftists have fought against popular reforms, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/02\/07\/bipartisan-support-for-early-in-person-voting-voter-id-election-day-national-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voter ID requirements<\/a>, and continuously promoted confusing new voting systems that tend to increase their control of the outcomes.\u00a0Democrat and Republican voters alike should oppose these power grabs and make elections more open, honest, and fair. But leftists in power know that under those elections, they are more likely to lose. Don\u2019t expect them to support those kinds of reforms anytime soon.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7c6bea7c18f64740a82664a49ad336dd fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-7c6bea7c18f64740a82664a49ad336dd\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each election cycle, Democrats introduce complex voting schemes, confusing voters and undermining confidence in the outcome. This deliberate strategy aims to secure power through manipulation, rather than earning voters&#8217; trust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2956,"featured_media":2236164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/castingballot.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/castingballot.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}